# Purchasing Officer

JOB PURPOSE: We are looking for a Purchasing Officer who will support the Copper Operations by ensuring the on-time conversion of approved purchase requisitions and related purchase orders as received from the business and apply strict and consistent governance measures to all spend functions to ensure that jobs are processed in a financially viable manner. Serve as the gatekeeper for the procurement process, ensuring that appropriate procurement policies are in place and adhered to. Provide high-quality purchasing support to contribute towards the prevention of “stop supply” instances. KEY RELATIONSHIPS: Purchasing team Accounts Payable team Site supply chain team Warehousing teams Vendors Contracts Team PRIMARY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES: Responsible for all purchase order (PO) processing activities at the required quality and compliance standard. Provide prompt conversion from purchase requisition to purchase orders, ensuring SAP MasterData is used (Contracts, Suppliers, Goods and Services). Ensure the continuous monitoring of supplier PO acknowledgements. Implement prompt PO amendments by supplier or end user. Accurate and timeously capture all appro

- **Id**: 4296564
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/glencore-purchasing-officer>
- **Role**: Operations
- **Role family**: Operations
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Johannesburg, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T14:03:57Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T14:03:57Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3638
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Mining, Non-ferrous Metals

## Company

- **Id**: 1790549
- **Name**: Glencore
- **Domain**: glencore.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/glencore-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

## Technologies

- **Microsoft Office** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T00:22:00Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 22
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T02:48:27Z

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