AngloGold Ashanti North America Inc. is seeking a Procurement Manager to play a critical role in managing strategic spend categories for Heavy Mining Equipment. You will drive financial and operational performance by strengthening supplier partnerships, ensuring cost and delivery excellence, and securing long-term value through strategic negotiations.
What You'll Do
- Support the development and implementation of the Global Category Management Strategy.
- Assist in designing and governing a unified company view of supply markets for assigned categories.
- Deliver market insights, financial analysis, and risk assessments to guide decision-making.
- Identify and analyze category opportunities, ensuring alignment with business needs.
- Support supplier relationship management and sourcing plans.
- Lead negotiation strategies for high-value Heavy Mining Equipment contracts.
- Draft tender documents and contracts, ensuring SOX compliance.
- Manage contracts in SAP for efficient and compliant execution.
- Develop and manage should‑cost models tied to site-level requirements and market dynamics.
- Structure contracts to optimize performance, reduce risk, and improve cost efficiency.
- Define joint objectives and KPIs with suppliers, and lead performance monitoring.
- Conduct market analysis, benchmarking, and spend segmentation.
- Provide insights across cost modeling, pricing discipline, solution modeling, and advanced analytics.
- Build business cases to support leadership decisions.
- Deliver quarterly market and supplier updates to business leaders.
- Support Business Improvement teams and business units with functional category expertise.
- Promote effective procurement processes and improve supplier participation across regions.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives and share best practices across the organization.
- Implement a standard Group-wide Category Management approach to drive cost leadership.
- Apply TCO strategies to reduce total cost of ownership for external spend.
- Utilize the Category Management Playbook—Review, Strategize, Execute, Track—across all initiatives.
- Develop implementation roadmaps, transition initiatives to the Full Potential Hub, and report progress.
- Manage value delivery across five sources: Opex, Capex, Working Capital, TCO impact, and cost avoidance.
- Enable consistent reporting and transparency through Savings/Value Delivery and Price/Volume Variance reports.
- Lead site-level improvement projects across mining, processing, LOM strategy, and external spend.
- Support a two-year rolling refresh program, feeding insights back to regional and global teams.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field
- Minimum 5 years of experience in a relevant category management or commercial analytical role
Nice to Have
- MBA
Technical Stack
- SAP
Team & Environment
This role provides direct support to the Director, Category Management – Mining Contracts, HME & Tyres.
AngloGold Ashanti North America Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
