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| Inventory Manager | |
| 6793BR | |
| Supply Chain | |
| Spain | |
| Canary Islands | |
| Africa Regional Office, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | |
| Full Time |
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| Kinross is a Canadian-based gold mining company with mines and projects in Canada, the United States, Brazil, Chile, Russia, Ghana and Mauritania, employing approximately 9,000 people worldwide. Our core purpose is to lead the world in generating value through responsible mining.
The Kinross Africa Regional Office is located in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, and is responsible for providing senior leadership and back office support to the gold mine sites located in Ghana and Mauritania. |
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PURPOSE OF ROLE
To lead the development, implementation, continuous improvement and execution of Kinross inventory control and planning strategy, policies and guidelines to drive shared goals and objectives across the entire Supply Chain specifically for inventory planning, cataloguing activities and working capital optimization. Oversee all regional inventory planning activities, responsible to ensure the correct levels of stock are in place, obsolete and excess stock management is completed in a safe and consistent manner, and in compliance with Company procedures and policies. Communicates inventory control and planning vision and builds strong working relationships with internal clients. Enhance Kinross overall inventory control and planning capability through continuous improvement and development of the organization. KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY AND DUTIES Reporting to the Regional Supply Chain Manager, the Inventory Manager is responsible to provide technical inventory management, analytics, cataloguing, cross functional reporting and JDE Business Process support across Supply Chain Management. This position will act as a key point of contact for User groups requiring inventory support, reporting queries and will champion system Business Processes for Supply Chain. - Develops, recommends, continuously improves and implements programs to enhance working relationships and communication processes to ensure achievement of leading practice inventory control and planning processes. - Ensure teams share leading practices and lessons learned, use consistent methodologies, and pursue deliverables that are aligned with corporate strategic objectives. Coach and provide periodic informal and formal performance feedback to direct reports. - Recognized as an expert in Inventory and forecast accuracy optimization. Helps set global inventory planning strategy and supports regional inventory optimization on a continuous basis. Direct experience overseeing or managing regional and global inventory performance optimization, item stratification and distribution network optimization. Control 3rd party contractor inventory planning performance and ensures alignment to company inventory planning service levels. - Identifies opportunities to reduce total costs based on better planning and management of inventory and drives inventory control standards throughout the organization, resolves issues in areas of collaboration with other supply chain system processes, and defines the process methodology in alignment with corporate guidance. - Ensures standardized SCM materials data (Item Names, Item Descriptions, Group Class codes, and colloquials) and implement governance to improve and preserve data quality on an ongoing basis. - Implements demand forecasting concepts and can utilize available inventory control tools. Can lead conversations and provide a point of view on how to forecast the materials demand in order to replenish warehouse areas and inventory as well as meet the demands of operational activities. Understands procurement activities required to match supply with demand. - Prioritize work amongst the team and provides analysis and mitigation strategies for high value and high risk inventory categories. - Ensures that a statistical forecast for critical and non-critical 'predictable' materials are generated and communicated to end-users for making appropriate adjustments to mine and maintenance plans and are consolidated with materials requests into a single inventory/materials plan. - Manage Bulk Commodities and other critical cost driver commodities to ensure stock is replenished, scheduled, forecast, planned and delivered to Site(s) in accordance with usage demand profiles and site storage considerations. - Makes recommendations on processes improvement with broad use of external knowledge and practices. Consulted as leading authority, recognized by Kinross, as well as by industry peers in the area of inventory control and materials planning. - Develops and documents operational risk mitigation and contingency management plans. - Defines regional inventory management practices including Lead Time Management Reduction, Vendor Managed Inventory, Database Standardization, Product Obsolescence Management. - Design and implement relevant strategies relating to inventory and catalogue management, demand planning and profiling, bulk commodity and repairable item management. - Provides specialized analytical approaches that customize planning processes and parameters to support service levels and operational goals. - Accountable for warranty repair activities that fall under the remit of supply chain in the regions. Collaborates with maintenance to ensure accurate planning and tracking is in place. Standardizes consistent repair activities and provides overall W&R guidance from a Kinross commercial perspective to end-users and suppliers. - Manage the disposal process of obsolete and surplus inventory and equipment. Liaise with End-Users, Finance and Warehouse operations to identify, tag, tender, bid, award contracts and ensure surplus assets are disposed off in a timely manner with consideration for asset re-deployment to other Kinross Operations. - Manage the addition of new items to the inventory catalogue through collaboration with Operations and Maintenance ensuring a risk based assessment is conducted to analyze and determine stocking levels. - Identity skill set gaps within the team, determine the methodology to address the gaps and ensure the subsequent execution of training and development plans. - Develop skills and abilities of direct and indirect reports through ongoing performance measurement and feedback. Provide career guidance and act as a champion and mentor for all resources in the supply chain organization. - Demonstrate social awareness, commitment and compliance with Kinross’s Social Responsibility Policy, always showing a socially responsible behavior with the Community and with the Company. - The above duties and responsibilities are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all-inclusive. |
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MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS & SKILL REQUIREMENTS
Languages: Must speak / read / write English - French language skills highly regarded but not essential Experience: - Seven (7) to ten (10) years of directly related inventory analytics, Procurement and warehousing experience necessary. - Four (4) to six (6) years of management experience – leading teams and having direct reports - Mining experience essential. - Knowledge of JDE or equivalent enterprise level software packages is necessary. - Experience with advance analytics software applications would be desirable. Knowledge and skills - Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Accounting or related field or equivalent experience. - Strong computer skills using office software such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio. - Knowledge of JDE or equivalent enterprise level software packages is necessary. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills CORE COMPETENCIES Deliver Result – Completes tasks and takes accountability for own actions. Achieves excellence in customer service. Personal Awareness – Understands how own behaviors and actions impacts others. Leadership – Directs team towards achievement of goals and objectives. Communicates effectively in groups and teams Continuous Improvement – Seeks out and drives improvements Relationship Building – Builds productive business relationships across multiple functions |
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| 17-Apr-2015 | |
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Inventory Manager (Africa Regional Office, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain)
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