Key Performance Areas

·          Managing the supply of Secondary Raw Materials (Ferro alloys, Base Metals and Metallics) to ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA).

·          Develop commodity strategy aligned with the long-term view of the company and transfer this commodity strategy into the supply chain strategy.

·          Develop and maintain current and future suppliers.

·          Contract negotiations, creation, and management.

·          Do integrated planning to ensure alignment with Production requirements.

·          Procurement of raw materials to achieve production targets and alignment of logistics to deliver the required volumes to the different plants throughout ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA).

·          Managing working capital and inter business unit transfers.

·          Conduct supply chain benchmarking and recommended best practises

·          Develop customized strategies to improve service levels whilst reducing total cost of ownership.

·          Develop and maintain relationships with external and internal parties and interaction with cross-functional teams within ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA).

·          Managing a team to ensure optimum performance in achieving goals

·          Coordinate the analysis of relevant data

·          Understand supplier's operating environment

Develop a technical profile of qualities and volumes required by oxygen steel making

·          Work in close collaboration with operations at each operating unit and understand operational parameters and constraints affecting resource requirement practices

·          In conjunction with operations, develop a technically based profile of the most cost-effective resources required to achieve the lowest value in use cost.

Development and implementation of market assessment and sourcing strategy

·          Conduct a well-designed market analysis of supply sources and developing trends in the market and understand the demand side of sources in the Southern African market.

·          Compile a sourcing strategy informed by a market and competitive positioning analysis

·          Establish and implement contracted sourcing agreements informed by technical requirements of operations and market intelligence developed

·          Identify supply chain risk and implement a mitigating plan to ensure uninterrupted supply of resources to operations, including logistics solutions

·          Evaluate systems and processes and improve these to ensure a more ancient and reliable supply chain

Continuous improvement focus

·          Develop a value in use key performance model that is reflective of the total cost of ownership

·          Track technical, commercial, and related quality performance indicators and implement corrective actions to ensure strategic objects are met

·          Setting of annual budgets

·          Establish annual budgets which encompasses consumption and price forecast data and provide guidance to business units and the Finance department regarding the setting of annual budgets

·          Continuous tracking of performance against budgets

Quality and Risk Management

·       Assessment of risks that impact of potential supply interruptions and price risk instances

·       Mitigate against the risk of supply interruptions and price escalations Effective communication

·       Develop an effective communication strategy which includes all stakeholders affecting the successful implementation and execution of the sourcing strategy

• Commercial and financial skills
• Analytical skills
• Conflict Management
• Presentation and communication skills
• Negotiation skills
• Ability to communicate at executive level and interact with outside stakeholders 
• Decision making
• Sound diagnostic and problem-solving ability 
• Good financial and modeling skills
• Strategic thinking
• Able to function as part of a team in a business-driven environment 
• Proven ability to develop and maintain good human and interpersonal relations at all levels
• Self-starter with an innovative and pro-active approach
• Sound verbal and written communication skills with good bilingual capabilities

• Advanced Ms Excel, Power BI and Think Cell
• Negotiation, Commercial, financial skills