A world leading steel producer with large Iron Ore operations in West Africa are currently looking to hire a Supply Chain Manager for their project in Liberia.
Within the increased responsibility of the Iron Ore Expansion Project:
- The Supply Chain Manager needs to develop, implement and lead the operational and strategic supply chain activities, in compliance with quality and safety standards and within timeframe and cost optimization.
- Develop sourcing strategies to support the local mine operations network.
- Lead the direct and indirect procurement activities and type of sourcing (services, equipment and construction).
- Lead supplier relationships (including: supplier approval processes, performance evaluations, supplier corrective actions and cost reduction programs).
- Perform cost analysis for major services, equipment purchase, and most suitable logistics.
- Support Liberia's sites performance and development, building a sustainable regional procurement organization and in coordination with the group purchasing team for Global Mining procurement activities.
- The Supply Chain manager is required to organize and plan the transferring process of materials and goods from suppliers and manufacturers to end users.
- The Supply Chain Manager manages the distribution operations of the mining operations.
- The Manager needs to work with other professionals, such as logistics contractors, warehouse staff, purchasing officers, and transport clerks to ensure materials are stored correctly and dispatched to customers on time.
Main Responsibilities
- Coordinate supply chain management with other company functions, such as sales, marketing, finance, production, and quality assurance.
- Ensure that the Supply Chain Division complies with the Health and Safety rules and regulations for all stakeholder's.
- Manage continuous improvement and ensure risk analysis are done for operation purchase decisions.
- Meet group and local Procurement, Policies, Standards and Norms.
- Coordinate business reviews with strategic suppliers.
- Ensure proper procurement procedures are in place and followed.
- Establish reliable and professional relationships with qualified contractors and suppliers.
- Define performance metrics for measurement, comparison, or evaluation of supply chain factors such as product cost and quality.
- Determine what is required to make sure the supply chain activities comply with environmental certification standards.
- Develop or document ways to reduce or mitigate carbon output that results from transporting materials or products.
- Evaluate inventory tracking technology, web-based warehousing software, or intelligent conveyor systems to make sure the plant or distribution centre is operating as efficiently as possible.
- Evaluate technologies, such as global positioning systems (GPS), route navigation software, or satellite linkup systems, to improve transportation efficiency.
- Implement new or improved supply chain processes.
- Manage activities related to purchasing, material planning, inventory control, warehousing, or receiving.
- Meet with suppliers to discuss performance metrics, to provide feedback, or to discuss production forecasts or changes.
- Monitor forecasts to identify changes or to determine how they could affect supply chain activities.
- Negotiate prices and terms with suppliers, vendors, or freight forwarders.
- Review global, national, or regional transportation or logistics reports for ways to improve efficiency or minimize the environmental impact of logistics activities.
- Work with supply chain planners to forecast demand or create supply plans that ensure materials and products are available.
- Analyse inventories to determine how to increase inventory turns, reduce waste and optimize customer service. - Develop best-practices across the procurement team.
Number of people managed
- Coordinate with different managers and interact with various GM's.
- The Supply Chain Department consists of 100 people at the 3 different locations.
Turnover/ sales / added value
- Improve Logistics methods, negotiation on supplier prices, responsible of warehouse prices
Key Relationships
- Caterpillar and Heavy Equipment
- Clearing Agents
- Government
International Role
- Capacity to resource, procure, negotiate with Global suppliers as well as sharing knowledge and strategies with his Team.
- Able to work within deadlines on a significant expansion project and manage the logistics of the project.
- Fluent in English and be able to work with different nationalities.
- Additional languages will be a bonus.
