Banele Sithole

I have worked in Mining and Petrochemical Sector in the past 8 years in both engineering and procurement department respectively. I have acquired vast knowledge in procuring and project management in my working experience dealing with equipment, maintenance, professional services, and construction projects. I have always been a top performer in my department as a I do portray good communication skills; high sense of responsibility and I adapt easily to change.

Position: Experiential Training

Period: (2012/02/03 - 2013/03/01)

Company: Total Coal under MCC Group

Reason for leaving: A year contract

Key responsibilities:

Involved in day-to-day mining activities performing the following:

Drill and blasting:

Setting up, operating drills and drilling machines to produce designated pattern of blasting holes.

Procuring explosives.

Loading explosives and setting up for blasting purposes.

Surveying:

Working closely with surveyors on surveying ore and overburden.

Record and reporting volumes daily to mine manager.

Assist in mining plans.

Production and maintenance:

Supervising the operators on loading and offloading of ore and overburden.

Assisting foreman with tactical plans on mining methods.

Assisting plant engineers with reporting on coal beneficiation.

Assist maintenance team with routine inspection of mining machinery.

Admin:

Reporting. 

Data capturing.

Support service purchases.

Position: Internship

Period: (2015/04/04 - 2016/04/25)

Company: Total South Africa

Reason for leaving: Internship program

Key responsibilities:

Involved in day-to-day project management for construction projects performing the following activities:

Planning project resources, defining project scope and checking which resources are available, estimating time and financial commitment for each project.

Leading the project team, by assigning task and deadlines, give them tools to collaborate.

Figuring out the proper funding of the project and keeping the project within or under the budget. Procuring materials and appointing suppliers for delegated purchases as per the budget.

Constant communication with the stakeholder, reporting on the project status and inspecting if the installations comply with quality standards.

Managing issues and risks, figure out beforehand what risks are and set in place and plan of action to mitigate or avoid them.

Monitoring progress, measure and compare metrics against the construction plan. Collect project data and compare the progress.

Reporting and documentation, collecting and sign off documentation by end of project, which provide history for planning purposes.

Reporting weekly, monthly to the engineering manager on progress.

Admin:

Data capturing

Reporting

Position: Technical Buyer

Period: (2016/04/30 - 2020/04/30)

Company: Total South Africa

Reason for leaving: Personal issues

Offering services to the following countries:

South Africa

Lesotho

Botswana

Namibia

Swaziland

Key responsibilities:

Develops purchasing plans for long- and short-term agreement, develop cost targets, anticipate schedules, and annual usage.

Challenge specifications and scope of work from business.

Perform market analysis and engage with the group procurement on localization of group contracts.

Perform spend analysis.

Prepare tender/ RFQ pack, launch based on the threshold.

Negotiates cost, terms and service with the suppliers.

Update SAP purchasing data.

Populate contracts/ service agreements and share with suppliers for approval and upload on group tool.

Places purchase orders with suppliers in response to requisitions for goods/services. 

Evaluates potential supply sources, develop supplier selection, design the evaluation criteria which entail SQSCBI, safety, quality, security of supply, cost, BBBEE and innovation.

Prepare tender presentations for supplier appointments.

Assists with supplier audits.

Work closely with business on projects progress follow up and feedback to management/business units concerning supplier performance. 

Meet with clients on weekly basis to discuss purchasing plan status.

Make short/long term supply base recommendations.

Assist in resolving quality, engineering and accounts payable issues concerning suppliers in a expedient manner under the guidance of the relevant business units.

Acts as liaison with group procurement for supply chain technology implementations to ensure supply base is capable of supporting business growth through supplier integration.

Assist in recovering costs from suppliers incurred by company due to supplier discrepancies.

Implement cost-savings ideas with suppliers, challenge their innovative proposals.

Assist in conveying the company culture, which supports the organization's overall business objectives and goals as well ensure the company commitment to maintain a safe workplace through the establishment and support of company policy and adherence to company health, safety, quality, environmental requirements.

Position: Category Specialist

Period: Current

Company: TotalEnergies Marketing South Africa

Offering services to the following countries:

South Africa

Botswana

Namibia

Swaziland

Key responsibilities:

Strategic Sourcing

• Works with the business, cross functional teams and Group to understand and, where possible, optimize the local and regional business requirements for third party goods and services.
• Defines and Implement sourcing strategies to ensure projects across multiple end users are delivered within timelines as per business plans and category and procurement strategies.
• Analyzing external and internal drivers of the category profile and understand supply chain and TCO reduction opportunities and apply benchmarking
• To analyze past spend as well as forecast spend and savings by commodity/business unit/location
• Applies current sourcing tools and methodologies including execution of sourcing events with e-sourcing technology.
• Implements and realizes value through effective strategic cost management utilizing best in class methods and tools.
• Supports the due diligence in mitigating external supply risk from supplier selection through to contract execution and on-going supplier delivery.
• developments of purchasing plans; updating as per progress and provide performance tracking reports to Category Manager

Contract execution and implementation

• Responsible for defining contract strategies, drafting agreements; implementing longer term contracts / agreement with suppliers using defined indexes and defined supplier performance metrics
• Implements clear and concise supply contracts, which considers all Total SA HSSE, legal and commercial aspects and ensure correct use of contract standard terms and application of industry terms and conditions.
• Supports ongoing contract management, including compliance to contractual terms by the suppliers, management of contract expiry and renegotiation of contracts
• Ensures the mechanics of the contracts, as well as the risks, are understood by all impacted stakeholders.

Supplier performance management

• Develop a list of key and strategic suppliers to be approved by the Local Contract Committee

 and Group Category Managers

• Manager the supplier performance management processes including coordinating SPM with end-user’s involvement; developing the assessment questionnaire.
• Facilitates the performance review process. Uses tools to drive analysis of a wide variety of performance information.
• Propose and apply incentive schemes and penalties to drive and improve performance. Facilitate development of mutually agreed performance improvement plans.

Stakeholder management

• To closely manage the relationship with internal customers and stakeholders, both within the framework of cross-functional
• category teams but also generally other internal stakeholders with relation to the category
• To proactively organize sessions with internal stakeholders and external stakeholders to explore opportunities that can reduce cost and risk and drive innovation

Tender management

• Manage and ensure effective execution of the Tenders within the prescribed policies and procedures
• Manage the tender process and ensure prequalification of suppliers (including compliance to HSE requirements) and lead Supplier Evaluation Process.
• Chair all cross functional team meetings to actively manage the project timelines; communicate with the team members and other stake holders and lead presentations to Tender Committee.
• Manage and ensure integrity of information by quality check tender presentations and documents

Secondary Education

Highest Grade Passed: Grade 12

Qualification Status: Completed

School Name: Hans Kekana High

Year: 2010

Tertiary Education

Institution: University of Johannesburg 

Qualification Status: Completed

Mining Engineering

Duration: (2011/02/02-2014/12/01)

Current Education

Institution: University of South Africa

Qualification Status: On progress

BCOM Supply Chain & Operation Management

Duration: (2017-Current)