De Beers Group is the world’s leading diamond company, with expertise in diamond exploration, mining, grading, marketing and retail. Together with our joint venture partners, we employ more than 20,000 people across the global diamond pipeline, with many of these people in our source countries of Botswana, Canada, Namibia and South Africa.
Inclusive Procurement Manager - Supplier Development
Job Description:
Lead the development and deployment of a strategic partnering and
supplier development approach that will capacitate communities, create velocity
and drive scale to contribute to the Living Mine in Southern Africa.
Your duties will include:
- Provide Safety,
Health & Environment leadership when delivering on goals, ambitions
and activities to ensure safety, health and wellbeing at work and at home.
- Provide
Inclusive Procurement contributions to the overall Supply Chain business
strategy, particularly pertaining to creative partnering and robust
supplier development.
- Develop, deploy
and maintain our AA strategic approach/framework to supplier development
through an Inclusive Procurement lens (internal, external and
governmental) that will elevate the programme, create velocity, leverage
regional and national scale and ensure sustainability beyond mine closure.
- Operationalise
the supplier development framework, delivering co-ordinated monthly
performance management routines in partnership with our Supply Chain and
Social Performance teams in our Southern African Business Units
- Support Supply
Chain regions/BUs/teams to translate the strategy into area specific
critical tasks, performance targets, plans and budgets, ensuring it is
responsive to local nuances, realities and changing, volatile
environments.
- Support the
development of a change, engagement & communication plan that will
support the effective deployment of the strategy, achievement of our
ambitions and celebrate achievements.
- Provide
area-specific input to the overall Inclusive Procurement scorecard and
targets and support the tracking of performance against these.
- Provide input to
category portfolio and value delivery planning, support global category
strategy development, commercial & initiative plans and agreements to
ensure formal commitment are embedded..
Qualifications:
Requirements:
- An undergraduate
qualification - Bachelor degree level or equivalen
- Desirable: A
postgraduate qualification (Honours/ Masters degree or equivalent) in a
relevant discipline OR a proven track record of extensive practical
experience in a role and context of similar complexity
Experience:
- Strategy
development and execution
- Incubation and
enterprise/supplier development
- Good Commercial
experience in mining/large scale projects AND/OR small-medium enterprise
financial sustainability
- Knowledge of
Regulatory and Legislative Frameworks pertaining to Southern African
Procurement
- Continuous
Supply Chain improvement and optimisation
Method of
Application
Interested and qualified? Go to De Beers Group to apply
