Local Procurement Coordinator - Mokopane - PCI Recruitment

Description

Local Procurement Coordinator

The Local Procurement Coordinator is responsible for managing the procurement of materials, services, and supplies from local sources. This includes ensuring compliance with local procurement targets and maintaining accurate statistical data and reporting.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced individual to fill this role. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in procurement, contract management, and negotiation. They will be responsible for building and maintaining relationships with vendors and suppliers, identifying opportunities for local spend, and driving initiatives to increase local target spend compliance.

This person will play a key role in ensuring that our procurement practices align with our organizational goals and values. They will be required to work closely with stakeholders, including major contractors, to appoint local community sub-contractors and promote local spending on day-to-day procurement.

Duties & Responsibilities

1. Safety, Health and Environment

• Ensure compliance with the Mine Health and Safety Act and report all unsafe conditions and work practices.

• Provide guidance on processes to increase local spend and show an increase in the usage of local suppliers by buyers.
• Implement and maintain systems to increase the procurement of non-stocked and stocked requests from local primary, secondary, and tertiary sources.
• Increase local spend to 80% on controlled spend.
• Build and maintain strong and long-term relationships with vendors and suppliers.
• Engage with stakeholders on future mine needs and opportunities to change suppliers and increase local spend.
• Identify high-value spend national suppliers suitable for joint ventures to increase local spend.
• Identify and assess new supply options for current and upcoming purchasing requirements for local opportunities.
• Conduct supplier visits and report on capabilities, including updates on the local suppliers database.
• Ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements when purchasing from local entities.
• Support ESD suppliers proposed from the ESD Department and provide relevant feedback to buyers.
• Assist suppliers with vendor onboarding and monitor progress on the Portal.
• Assist with the adjudication process to ensure fair and transparent adjudication.
• Ensure that all administration is neat, current, and available.
• Engage with onsite contractors to increase local spend by identifying local suppliers and referrals to ESD for potential JV opportunities.
• Manage and ensure opportunities are accessible to all local suppliers.
• EOIs and RFQs to be advertised via Maru and Supplier Portal.

• Track overall local spend for reporting purposes - weekly and monthly spend reporting.
• Weekly and monthly progress reports.

Desired Experience & Qualification

Minimum Qualifications

• A suitable diploma or bachelor's degree in procurement, business, or finance is preferable.
• 5 years of experience in a relevant supply chain role within a mining environment.
• Buying across the full spectrum of goods and services applicable to the mining industry.
• Negotiating with suppliers.
• Contract management and working with contractors.
• Local/communities procurement.

KEY KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS (Job Specific)

• MS Windows, MS Office.
• ERP System, Purchasing and Reports.
• Extensive industry knowledge.
• Analysis and troubleshooting.
• Anticipate risk and be able to adjust accordingly.
• Reporting and presentations.
• Handling of conflict and conflict resolution.