AngloGold Ashanti North America Inc. seeks a Manager, Procurement Mining Contracts (Category Manager) to manage end-to-end strategic spend categories that impact financial and operational performance. The role focuses on optimizing supplier relationships, conducting effective negotiations, and ensuring suppliers meet quality, cost, and delivery expectations. You will provide direct support to the Director, Category Management – Mining Contracts and Tyres, contributing to supply market strategies and delivering insights on trends, risks, and opportunities.

What You'll Do

Support development and execution of the Global Category Management Strategy for assigned spend areas.
Partner with the Director on supplier relationship management and sourcing plans.
Contribute to the design and governance of a unified view of supply markets for assigned categories.
Ensure proper documentation and contract management practices to maintain SOX compliance.
Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and suppliers to improve procurement processes.
Collect and analyze data to assess supplier capability, performance, and market conditions.
Provide market analysis, benchmarking, and actionable insights.
Support Business Units with functional expertise related to assigned categories.
Conduct analyses including should-cost modeling, price discipline, solution modeling, advanced analytics, market intelligence, spend segmentation, and operational excellence support.
Advise on supply chain risks and opportunities and communicate insights to relevant business partners.
Assist in preparing quarterly supplier and market updates for leadership.
Share best practices across supply chain functions.
Develop negotiation strategies for high-value contracts to unlock value and efficiencies.
Support execution of commodity strategies, including opportunity assessment, financial analysis, negotiation, and long-term contracting.
Analyze and prepare business cases for decision-making.
Draft tender documentation and support contract development.
Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
Support supplier relationship management by setting objectives, KPIs, and performance routines.
Apply market intelligence and sourcing principles to drive value realization.
Promote consistent and effective category analysis and review processes.
Identify and evaluate opportunities within assigned categories.
Oversee tactical delivery of major contracts and tenders.
Manage contracts through SAP for compliance and efficient administration.
Support category budget planning and monitor expenditures.
Implement TCO strategies to reduce external spend and improve category performance.
Utilize the Category Management Playbook to review, strategize, execute, and track category initiatives, consolidate internal and external market intelligence, develop implementation roadmaps, and track benefits and improvements monthly.
Support Full Asset Potential reviews by contributing to site-level improvement projects and feeding insights into global and regional strategies.
Define and track value across five sources: direct spend, capital spend, working capital, TCO impact, and cost avoidance.
Implement reporting processes that enhance transparency, performance tracking, and strategic focus.

What We're Looking For

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field.
Minimum 5 years of relevant category management or commercial analytical experience.