AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine

Category Manager: Logistics, Raise Bore Drilling

LocationEnglewood, CO
Job TypeFull-time

About This Job


Website: www.anglogoldashanti.com

Requirement: Must have valid U.S. work authorization to be considered


Summary/Objective Of Role

The Category Manager is essential for managing the end-to-end strategic spend categories that are vital to the company's financial and operational success. This includes both the supplier relationships and negotiations for defined strategic spend categories which are critically important to the financial and operational success of the business. This role focuses on building strong partnerships with suppliers to ensure they meet quality, cost, and delivery standards, while securing beneficial terms and long-term advantages through negotiations.

Additionally, the Category Manager is responsible for providing direct support to the Category Director and effectively facilitating the implementation and management of supply market strategies for these categories. This involves delivering actionable insights into market trends, financial opportunities, and risks to support strategic business decisions. The role requires a hands-on professional with knowledge of global supply markets, strong negotiation skills, and the ability to drive value through effective procurement strategies. Effective cross-functional collaboration is crucial to align procurement activities with broader business objectives.


Accountabilities


The role is directly accountable to:

Supporting the development and implementation of the Global Category Management Strategy for defined areas of spend.
Supporting the Category Director on supplier relationship management and sourcing plans for defined categories.
Supporting the design and governance of a single company view of supply markets for defined categories.
Ensuring proper documentation is in place to maintain SOX compliance for contracts and procedures managed for specific categories of strategic spend managed by Global Supply Chain.
Maintaining effective working relationships with internal stakeholders and suppliers to assess or improve the quality of the procurement and purchasing process, including increased participation of the in-country supply base where applicable.
Collecting and analysing quantitative and qualitative information to assess supplier capability and performance.
Driving up-to-date market analysis and benchmarking.
Supporting Business Improvement and BUs by providing functional expertise for defined categories of spend.
Collecting, investigating, and analysing information as requested by the Category Director using data from internal and external sources for:
Should Cost modelling
Price Discipline
Solution modelling
Advanced analytics
Market Intelligence
Spend Segmentation
Operational Excellence Process Support
Advising the Category Director on supply chain-related risks and opportunities and communicating these to peers in business units and operations.
Assisting the Category Director in developing category market and supplier updates to be shared with business leadership quarterly.
Collaborating across the group and sharing internal and external best practices across all supply chain functions.
Driving and developing the negotiation strategy for high-value contracts for Drilling Services, aligned to market values and cost estimation principles, to unlock value and efficiencies for the category.
Assisting in the execution of the overall category strategy, including supplier opportunity assessments, financial analysis, negotiations, and long-term contract establishment. Using industry trends, drilling cost drivers, global pricing, best practices, benchmarking, equipment life cycle cost analysis.
Building the internal should-cost model mapped to each site's drilling requirements and market dynamics.
Structuring Drilling contracts to unlock performance efficiencies, mitigate risk, and optimize cost per meter.
Analysing and developing business cases to enable decision-making.
Drafting tendering documents and contracts.
Contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.
Developing and managing Supplier Relationship Management, setting joint objectives and KPIs with suppliers to enable proper contract management routines.
Utilizing market intelligence and strategic sourcing principles to drive benefits realization for AGA.
Promoting efficient, effective, and consistent category review and analysis.
Identifying and analysing opportunities within the drilling services category.
Managing the tactical delivery of major contracts and tenders for Drilling Services.
Managing contracts through SAP to ensure compliance and efficient contract management.
Implement and manage the category portfolio budget, ensuring alignment with expenditures and contributing to budget planning cycles for the categories under management.
Solid understanding of AGA's Time Usage Metrics and formulas to boost effective drilling time and reduce the cost per meter.
Implement External Spend TCO strategies to reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) on external spend:
Manage a standard approach for category management across the group to drive a cost leadership culture.
Implement buy-better and spend-better strategies to manage spend, scope future requirements, and understand the external market.
Utilize a structured Category Management Playbook:
Manage a four-stage approach: Review, Strategize, Execute, and Track.
Consolidate internal fact base and external market intelligence to identify TCO opportunities.
Develop implementation roadmaps and transition initiatives to the Full Potential Hub.
Track benefits and improvements in key metrics through a monthly review process.
Execute Full Asset Potential Refresh:
Manage site-by-site improvement projects across LOM strategy, mining, processing, and external spend.
Implement a two-year rolling program for site-level refreshes, with findings fed back to global and regional category management.
Drive Supplier Relationship Management:
Set joint objectives and KPIs with suppliers to enable proper contract management routines.
Establish appropriate cadences for performance monitoring based on the criticality of the operation and strategic nature of agreements.
Drive continuous improvement opportunities through jointly developed projects with suppliers.
Define and Track Value:
Manage value tracking in five key sources: Direct spend (Opex), Capital Spend, Working Capital, TCO Impacts, and Cost Avoidance.
Set annual targets based on category strategy reviews, with value estimates reported with confidence intervals from RS0 to RS4.
Enable Reporting:
Implement Savings/Value Delivery and Price/Volume Variance reports to set leading and lagging indicators for value delivery and strategic focus.
Leverage the Full Potential Hub for consistent reporting, transparency, and active management of initiatives.


Education & Qualifications

Minimum BA in Business or related field.
Minimum 5 years business experience covering relevant category or experience in ca commercial analytical role.


Required General Knowledge & Experience

Expertise in strategic sourcing and global category management.
Anticipates and addresses significant problems before they arise.
Communicates clearly and engages with the Category Director and Supply Chain BU peers on strategy, analytics, and execution.
Integrates and manages multiple concepts and activities to align with the strategy set by the Category Director.
Understands contractual agreements with exposure to relationship management.
Identifies new solutions to current or anticipated problems through cross-functional interaction.
Models alternative and creative solutions to influence colleagues and improve performance.
Inspires and motivates others, promoting collaboration and excellence.
Builds and maintains effective collateral and cross-functional working relationships.
Solves complex problems and analyzes issues to drive optimal solutions and expected results.
Utilizes advanced analytics to solve complex situations.
Builds complex scenario models to validate category solution strategies.
Develops templates and solutions to improve the category and ensure excellence.
Self-starter who can independently manage the category.
Develops and maintains relationships with BU stakeholders and suppliers.


Skills

Sourcing Process – Intermediate application is required.
Category Management – Advanced application is required.
Complex cost reviews and cost modelling– Advanced application is required.
Spend Management & Analytics – Advanced application is required.
Contract Management – Advanced application is required.
Supplier Management – Advanced application is required.
Stakeholder Management – Advanced application is required.
Supplier Negotiations – Immediate application is required.
Problem solving – Advanced application is required.
Advanced Analytics – Advanced application is required.
Word, PowerPoint, Excel – Advanced application is required.
SAP – Intermediate application is required.
Inventory Management – Intermediate application is required.
Data-Based Decision Making – Intermediate application is required.
Benchmarking – Intermediate application is required.
Cross-Functional Awareness – Intermediate application is required.
Cultural Competency - Advanced application is required.
Innovation – Intermediate application is required.
Project Management – Intermediate application is required.
Business Acumen – Intermediate application is required.
Logistics – Intermediate application is required.
Financial and Accounting Principles – Intermediate application is required


Conditions Of Employment

This is a full-time, exempt position in the Denver Office


COMPENSATION: $130,000- $155,000


Benefits

AngloGold Ashanti North America (AGANA) offers a competitive benefits package to include company paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums; flexible spending accounts; 401(k) retirement plan with employer match; vacation, paid sick leave, paid holidays. Other ancillary benefits include employer paid basic life, accidental death and dismemberment, short-term and long-term disability insurance, wellbeing reimbursement program, tuition reimbursement and a host of other benefits. AGANA recognizes the need for work life balance and offers a flexible/hybrid work schedule to employees. Eligible employees will participate in the annual short-term and long-term incentive plans. All benefits are subject to the applicable eligibility and program/plan terms and conditions and may be modified or terminated at AGANA’s sole discretion.


AngloGold Ashanti Limited


Reg No: 1944/017354/06


EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT

AngloGold Ashanti North America Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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