Director of Global Supply Chain

With the VP of Operation Strategy provide global and regional vision for supply chain functional support to operational and support teams across all Kinross sites. Establish Corporate Supply Chain standards, guidelines and best practices; and assist the regions and the sites in implementation. This includes the setting of policies, standards and the establishment and implementation of best practices.Key Areas of Responsibilities and Duties - In close conjunction with Regional Leadership, develop a high performing supply chain team to support best in class supply chain operations. This includes:- Develop close relationship with corporate and regional supply chain teams along the lines of the Kinross decentralized model.- Where requested by the RVPs, develop skills upgrade plan for team to close identified gapsthrough training, redeployment of resources and hiring programs.- Define supply chain processes and support requirements within the context of the supply chainstrategy and end user support requirements.- Design key metrics to monitor and manage performance levels across supply chain functions.- Develop control mechanisms for different supply chain functional areas to ensure adherence topolicies and guidelines.- Develop and execute plan to close gaps and eliminate non ‐ value added steps.- Support implementation of new technology to better enable supply chain operations across all regions. This includes support JDE implementations across the company. Introduce new technologies to support supply chain functional teams – online auctions, emarketplaces, supplier management portal, Barcoding and RFID etc.- Develop planning and forecasting standards (and specifications for minimum capabilities) within the supply chain function to permit better linkages between supply chain and operational planning teams.- Maintain and continue to develop Kinross’strategic sourcing program to ensure supplier selection, qualification and negotiations processes align with best in class models to maximize benefit to Kinross.- Support regional teams in development and implementation of logistics management programs. This Includes optimize network design, carrier selection, mode analysis, LTL v. FTL considerations etc; evaluate / optimize carriers; establish options for core carrier programs for core lanes and regions; develop tracking capabilities for real time movement availability – RFID and GPS.- Establish operating guidelines for warehouse infrastructure across Kinross.Qualifications & Skill Requirements- University graduate with specialized education of up to 4 years including master’s level or MBA- More than 10 years of Commercial experience with at least 3 years of experience at the Director level or managing a regional operation- Advanced written and spoken English- Successful experience developing and delivering supply chain strategy and operations preferably on a global scale- Excel and enjoy developing close relationships with internal and external people. Able to develop close relationships between operations and corporate function- Experience in mining / oil and gas desirable but not essential- Global exp highly desirable- Experience with ERP system deployment is desirable- Able to travel 20% - 35%- Additional Languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, etc...)

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