Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Employment

AngloGold Ashanti North America Inc. is hiring a Procurement Manager

About the Role

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.

Required Skills
SAPCategory ManagementCommercial AnalysisProcurementSupply Chain
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Posted 14 days ago