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Strategic Materials Procurement Specialist

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Job typeFull-time
Workplace typeOnsite
Experience levelNo experience limit
Education levelNo degree limit

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Job Summary: Structure national and international contracts, negotiate with suppliers, and develop new supply sources to reduce costs and optimize cost-effectiveness. Key Highlights: 1. Structure national and international contracts. 2. Negotiate with suppliers and service providers. 3. Develop and qualify new supply sources. Structure national and international contracts for raw materials, supplies, equipment, and services—including price collection, analysis, equalization, negotiation, formalization, logistics management, and post-purchase issue resolution with suppliers and service providers—while developing and certifying new supply sources to maintain and reduce costs, always prioritizing optimal cost-benefit investment in alignment with corporate guidelines and applicable regulations, ensuring achievement of performance targets. **Responsibilities and Duties** * Analyze purchase requisitions, identify characteristics and technical specifications, and request quotations from suppliers in accordance with internal procedures and the Company’s defined procurement policies to meet identified demands, ensuring compliance with quality, cost, and delivery schedule requirements. * Negotiate with suppliers and service providers on pricing, delivery schedules, and payment terms related to operations, special projects, high-volume or high-value procurements, and other complex procurements, aiming to minimize costs and adequately fulfill purchase requests. * Execute highly complex purchases per requisitions submitted by various departments of the Company, adhering strictly to item specifications, verifying quantities, and complying with all applicable Company norms, policies, and procedures. * Negotiate/re-negotiate with suppliers material returns and purchase cancellations, identifying and reporting quantitative and qualitative discrepancies in supplied items, implementing necessary corrections when applicable, and negotiating claims arising from service provision and supply contracts, ensuring accurate fulfillment of departmental demands and achievement of defined goals. * Identify, develop, qualify, and evaluate new suppliers to meet the Company’s needs in accordance with internal procedures, enhancing competitiveness and supply availability to support departmental demands. * Support strategic planning for continuous service and supply modalities and for specific demand scenarios, aiming to reduce costs and improve quality. **Requirements and Qualifications** * Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Law, Accounting, or Engineering; * Experience in strategic materials procurement applying agile procurement methodologies; * Brazilian Driver’s License Category B; * Advanced English proficiency. **Additional Information** **Salary \+ Benefits** * Health Insurance (co-payment); * Dental Insurance (co-payment); * Profit Sharing Program (PR); * Private Pension Plan; * Life Insurance; * Meal Allowance; * Transportation Allowance; * School Kit; * Christmas Kit; * Counseling Program. Hello! We are Kinross Brasil Mineração, a subsidiary of Kinross Gold Corporation—a Canadian group operating across South America (Brazil and Chile), North America (United States and Canada), and Africa (Ghana and Mauritania). With operations at the Morro do Ouro mine in Paracatu, northwestern Minas Gerais; an office in Belo Horizonte; and hydroelectric plants in Caçu and Barra dos Coqueiros, Goiás, we are one of Brazil’s largest gold producers, responsible for 22% of the country’s gold output. Gold mining, processing, and marketing—this is our business, made possible only through people. Today, we account for approximately 22% of formal employment in Paracatu municipality, providing around 1,800 direct jobs and nearly 4,000 contracted positions. We continuously seek to maximize opportunities and invest further in our team, betting on talent development and building a valuable workforce. After all, “People First” is one of our core values. One of our eight commitments to people is to broaden diversity. We recognize that diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to building a respectful, innovative environment offering equal opportunities for all. Discussing and practicing these principles is an ongoing exercise within our company, and we move forward confidently—step by step—to achieve our goals in this direction. Join us in making it happen!

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