Engineering Sourcing & Supplier Performance Lead

Aeciminingchemicals; South Africa; Sur place; ZAR 900 000 - 1 800 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

AECI Mining is seeking an experienced Senior Procurement Professional to lead strategic sourcing for engineering, maintenance, and project spend across mining operations. You will drive category strategies, supplier evaluations, and end-to-end negotiations to ensure reliability and value delivery.

The role requires strong leadership, advanced procurement knowledge, and the ability to partner with multiple stakeholders in a complex, multi-site environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor level degree and professional procurement credentials are required or advantageous.
• Experience in strategic sourcing and category management across mining/industry sectors is expected.
• Contract management and governance knowledge is beneficial.

Responsabilités

• Develop strategic sourcing approaches for critical mechanical equipment, engineering spares and maintenance services to improve plant reliability and operational continuity
• Lead sourcing activities for engineering spares, maintenance services and operational requirements
• Drive end-to-end sourcing activities, including RFx processes, supplier evaluations, commercial negotiations, and supplier selection
• Support the development and continuous refinement of category strategies through market intelligence and demand insights
• Conduct spend analysis, market and supplier research to identify opportunities, risks, and alternative supply sources
• Continuously monitor supplier markets, risks and availability to support operational continuity
• Identify alternative suppliers and sourcing opportunities to improve reliability and responsiveness
• Provide input into Procurement dashboards and tracking tools
• Support procurement planning through spend analysis, demand forecasting and supplier insights
• Contribute to budgeting and forecasting processes through spend and cost analysis
• Proactively identify and mitigate supply and commercial risks within assigned categories
• Ensure procurement activities align with operational, maintenance and shutdown requirements
• Conduct detailed spend analysis across managed categories to identify cost-saving opportunities
• Identify, develop, and implement cost-saving and value-creation initiatives
• Support the implementation of category-led initiatives to ensure value delivery
• Apply total cost of ownership (TCO) principles to enable optimal sourcing decisions
• Perform cost modelling, scenario analysis, and should-cost modelling using market and supplier data
• Support standardisation and optimisation initiatives across engineering and maintenance procurement
• Track and report on savings delivery and benefits realisation
• Support optimisation of engineering inventory and critical spare holdings to balance operational reliability and working capital requirements
• Identify opportunities to reduce emergency procurement through improved planning, supplier alignment and sourcing strategies
• Drive standardisation initiatives across engineering and maintenance categories to reduce complexity and improve procurement efficiency
• Build and maintain a qualified supplier base for assigned categories
• Manage supplier performance across quality, cost, service delivery and responsiveness
• Support supplier segmentation and contribute to supplier category and/ or diversification strategies
• Monitor supplier performance through defined KPIs (cost, quality, delivery, service, sustainability) and drive continuous improvement initiatives
• Lead supplier performance reviews and implement corrective actions where required
• Develop and maintain strategic relationships with OEMs and specialised engineering suppliers to improve technical support, responsiveness and lifecycle value
• Drive supplier innovation and continuous improvement

Connaissances

Strategic sourcing

Category management

Engineering procurement

Maintenance procurement

Capital projects

Negotiation

Supplier mgmt

Contract governance

Leadership

Data analysis

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Procurement or related discipline

Postgraduate qualification in Procurement, Supply Chain or Business Management advantageous

Professional procurement certification (CIPS) advantageous

Project Management certification (PMP, Prince2) advantageous

Contract Management Qualification

Lean, Six Sigma or CI certification

Outils

SAP ERP

eProcurement platforms

Sourcing platforms

Description du poste

AECI Mining is seeking an experienced Senior Procurement Professional to lead strategic sourcing for engineering, maintenance, and project spend across mining operations. You will drive category strategies, supplier evaluations, and end-to-end negotiations to ensure reliability and value delivery.

The role requires strong leadership, advanced procurement knowledge, and the ability to partner with multiple stakeholders in a complex, multi-site environment.