Strategic Sourcing Specialist - AME
Barrick Gold — City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Posted 2026-10-29
Strategic Sourcing Specialist - Africa & Middle East (AME) Position Description The Barrick Africa & Middle East Team are seeking to recruit a Strategic Sourcing Specialist - AME. This role reports to the Sourcing Manager Central AME. This role is responsible to lead complex, high-value sourcing initiatives and category strategy development running formal tender processes, managing strategic supplier relationships, and delivering measurable savings and value improvements throughout Africa and Middle East. Duties & Responsibilities Lead formal sourcing events for high-value and strategic categories managing the full process from market engagement through evaluation, negotiation and award. Develop category strategies for assigned spend categories - market analysis, spend baseline, supplier landscape mapping and sourcing strategy recommendation. Manage strategic supplier relationships at category level conducting formal performance reviews and driving continuous improvement. Identify, develop and validate savings initiatives, working with the Data Commercial Analyst on spend analytics and the Contracts Manager on documentation. Support the sourcing standardisation programme by alignin