Senior Specialist Supply Chain Operations

• Full-time
• Discipline:
  Supply Chain
• Business Entity:
  Africa - Platinum Group Metals (PGMs)(BU005)

Valterra Platinum, formerly Valterra Platinum, is a leading primary producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), with integrated mining, smelting, and refining operations in South Africa and Zimbabwe, marketing the metal we produce globally. Following our demerger from Valterra plc, Valterra Platinum is now an independent, publicly listed company with a primary and secondary listing on the Johannesburg and London stock exchanges respectively.

As we embark on this exciting new chapter, Valterra Platinum is positioned to define and pursue its own strategy, anchored in operational excellence, sustainability, and value creation for the long-term. With full accountability for our performance and growth, we are focused on strengthening our capabilities across the entire PGM value chain, from mine to market.

Our independence empowers us to deepen our commitment to stakeholders and lead with purpose – to Unearth Value to Better Our World. We remain steadfast in our ambition to be the world’s foremost producer of platinum group metals, while embedding safety and sustainability in everything we do.

If you're driven by purpose and the opportunity to make a lasting impact, we invite you to join us.

Number of positions: 1

Location of positions:
Mototolo Complex

Responsibilities:

To support the interface management between Supply Chain, operations and the communities, in order to drive Supply Chain operational excellence at a Business/asset level.

1. Safety:
Create a safety culture through productive and authorized operational systems/processes that allow all employees (including contracting partners) to provide their outputs in a risk-controlled environment. Oversee consistent application of Safety & Health principles in all discipline interactions and take personal responsibility for safety of self and others to ensure zero harm and elimination of fatalities.

2. Performance and Delivery

• Provide specialist support to translate asset specific strategy, critical tasks, and performance targets into Supply Chain relevant strategies with due consideration of risk identification, critical tasks and performance targets.
• Engage with the asset operational planning team to obtain insights which inform Supply Chain planning, and provide relevant insights to the asset process
• Provide input into demand planning and forecasting in order to ensure alignment between Supply Chain and asset/ BU plans and support on-site performance.
• Support provision of input to the commercial planning and the procurement pipeline, reflecting asset priorities.
• Support reporting for asset scorecard and Supply Chain targets (OTIF, lead time, Inclusive Procurement, performance inventory management activities) and value working capital.
• Provide support with end-to-end Supply Chain operational performance and excellence at an asset level, as well as assistance with removal of roadblocks which impact delivery and supplier performance.
• Identify and elevate to address roadblocks and constraints which impact delivery performance
• Support and where assigned manage specific improvement initiatives based on priorities set by leadership.
• Assist with cross collaboration between internal and external stakeholders and resolving complex Supply Chain issues and escalations from the operations.
• Provide input into driving key decisions on Supply Chain operational delivery issues.
• Implement Supplier Relationship Management processes across the operations.
• Support with embedding consistent asset compliance to Supply Chain policies and standards across the BU and advise the Business Unit technical stakeholders on the supplier/s and implementation of management strategies.
• Support the implementation of new ways-of-working that support leading practice and continuous improvement.
• Support the communication of relevant site-specific safety specifications and KPIs to commercial teams for inclusion in enquiries and contractual documentation.
• Implement the contracts with requisite change management and effective performance management at asset level to ensure value in use.
• Provide input to commercial and technical contractual requirements and adjudication of supplier bids.
• Support provision of input to value delivery contractual requirements
• Ensure that asset sustainability, safety and host community requirements are satisfied by contractual requirements.
• Identify and elevate supplier…