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You will have the opportunity to shape procurement strategy, implement innovative sourcing approaches, and create scalable processes that align with our technology-driven exploration model. You will collaborate closely with operations, technical, and executive leadership to optimize our global supply chain while ensuring compliance with local regulations and company standards.

This position requires both strategic vision and tactical execution expertise, and since KoBold is a startup company, your role and responsibilities will be dynamic and will evolve as the company grows. This position will focus on establishing procurement standards and processes that can be implemented across KoBold's operations, with coordination and collaboration across regional teams.

Responsibilities:

• Strategic sourcing and supplier management: Develop and execute comprehensive global procurement strategies across all spend categories including drilling services, geophysical surveys, laboratory services, exploration equipment, technology solutions, professional services, and operational supplies.
• Should-cost modeling and deep economic analysis: Develop and maintain rigorous should-cost models across all major procurement categories, building KoBold's own independent economic understanding of what vendors do, what they should be doing, and what it should cost them to provide goods and services.
• Supplier risk management and compliance: Design and implement comprehensive supplier qualification and due diligence processes, including financial stability assessments, safety record evaluations, environmental compliance verification, and ethical business practice reviews.
• Contract negotiation and management: Assist with complex, high-value contract negotiations across diverse categories including multi-year drilling contracts, equipment purchase and lease agreements, technology licensing deals, professional services agreements, joint venture arrangements, and master service agreements.
• Technology and innovation sourcing: Evaluate and implement procurement technologies including spend analytics, supplier management, and e-sourcing solutions to optimize procurement strategy and deliver measurable value.
• Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder support: Support local experts in decentralized structure to be more effective in executing their procurement initiatives: Partner closely with Operations teams on project-specific procurement needs and supplier performance management.
• Zambia mine development support: Provide procurement expertise and commercial advisory support to Zambia mine development team, including vendor qualification frameworks, bid/tender process design, and contract lifecycle management tools.
• Procurement policy and process development: Implement procurement systems and tools to support scalable operations and enable stakeholders to execute on procurement objectives in a faster and more efficient manner.
• Spend analysis and Cost optimization: Analyze global spending patterns and identify opportunities for cost savings and process improvements.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, as well as the opportunity to work with a dynamic and growing company in the mineral exploration industry.

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KoBold's IT function supports a globally distributed team of ~280 geoscientists, data scientists, and engineers working across North America, Zambia, the DRC, and field exploration sites around the world. As we scale, our IT needs are evolving rapidly,from reactive, break/fix helpdesk support toward proactive, automated IT operations that work seamlessly across geographies, including remote field sites with limited connectivity.

In this role, you will own the full operational scope of Global IT. That means endpoint management, software procurement and renewals, identity and access administration, license optimization, vendor management, employee onboarding and offboarding, hardware lifecycle management, and IT training. You’ll lead a team of IT support staff, set technical direction, manage the annual software budget, and be the person who makes sure nothing falls through the cracks,renewals don’t expire, new hires have everything they need on day one, and the fleet is healthy and compliant.

Responsibilities

Endpoint Management & Fleet Operations

• Own the Global IT roadmap, setting technical direction for endpoint management, fleet automation, and IT operations across all KoBold offices and field sites in 10+ countries
• Design and implement zero-touch provisioning and automated reimaging workflows for macOS (Jamf) and Windows (Intune) endpoints
• Build endpoint monitoring, alerting, and fleet health dashboards to shift IT from reactive to proactive support
• Drive device lifecycle management including EoL/EoS tracking, hardware refresh planning, and inventory management across Jamf, Intune, CrowdStrike, and related tooling
• Create self-service application deployment and access workflows to reduce helpdesk volume and empower employees
• Apply DevOps principles to IT operations: configuration-as-code (e.g. managing Intune policies via Terraform), infrastructure automation, version-controlled policies, and repeatable processes
• Own internet reliability and network performance at all global remote KoBold sites

Software Procurement, Licensing & Vendor Management

• Manage the full software procurement lifecycle: new purchases, renewals, expansions, and cancellations, ensuring user access is never disrupted by lapsed licenses or last-minute renewals
• Own and drive execution of the annual software budget, including process improvements year-over-year and proactive renewal pipeline visibility for legal and finance
• Optimize license utilization across the SaaS portfolio,track usage, right-size seat counts, consolidate redundant tools, and negotiate pricing with vendors
• Coordinate with legal on contract review, working within the existing procurement process to move quickly on low-risk purchases while ensuring appropriate review for larger spend
• Onboard new SaaS applications with proper Okta integration (SSO, SCIM) before launch, and manage decommissioning of deprecated tools

Identity, Access & Employee Lifecycle

• Own Okta administration including SSO integrations, SCIM provisioning, group management, access request workflows, and lifecycle automation
• Manage Google Workspace administration, including license management, security settings, and break-glass super-admin governance
• Build automation for minimal-touch employee onboarding and offboarding,ensuring new hires are fully provisioned on day one and departing employees are cleanly deprovisioned
• Support AI tooling rollout (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and related tools) across the endpoint fleet, including deployment, configuration, and employee training

Team Leadership & Training

• Supervise and mentor IT support staff, providing technical coaching, priority-setting, performance management, and career development
• Develop and maintain IT training programs for new hires and ongoing employee enablement, including documentation, video walkthroughs, and live onboarding sessions
• Provide helpdesk backup on high-volume days, modeling the standard of responsiveness and quality you expect from the team

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Learn about mineral exploration by working closely with exploration teams, including time in the field in remote operations
• Collaborate with infrastructure engineering and security teams on cross-cutting initiatives including observability, access controls, endpoint security posture, and incident response
• Partner across the company to contribute to specification, vendor selection, and change management on new software requests
• Partner with finance on budget tracking, invoice approvals, and AFE submissions for software spend
• Work with legal to streamline the contract review pipeline, maintain lead times on renewals, and advocate for tiered review processes that match risk to effort
• Coordinate digitization efforts across the globe, ensuring consistent standards and tooling for converting physical records to digital archives at field and office sites

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in IT engineering, IT management, or a similar role combining hands-on technical depth with operational ownership
• Strong experience with MDM platforms, particularly Jamf (macOS) and Microsoft Intune (Windows), including policy configuration, automated enrollment, compliance enforcement

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Ultimately, your role is to help KoBold make valuable discoveries by identifying opportunities with rigorous evaluation and by ensuring that we safely and effectively conduct our field programs.

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate in all activities a commitment to the highest standards in health and safety, environment, and community relations.
• Rigorously analyze geoscientific datasets across a range of scales from provinces to prospects to determine exploration potential and to identify, rank, and prioritize exploration targets.
• Design, budget, permit, and execute field programs ranging from geological mapping and sampling of grass roots prospects through to large drilling programs on advanced projects, with leading industry practice in data acquisition and validation.
• Provide technical guidance and support to local in-country project teams during the design and execution of exploration programs, including site visits and engagement with other project stakeholders (e.g., community representatives, regulatory authorities, and joint venture partners).
• Work collaboratively with data scientist colleagues to conceive and implement insightful analytical methods.

Qualifications:

• Strong technical knowledge of one or more ore deposit types. Experience working on sediment-hosted stratiform copper or magmatic sulfide deposits will be considered an advantage.
• Excellence in generative analysis ranging from new concepts to integration, interpretation, and modeling of large datasets.
• Good field skills and experience conducting field programs across a range of project stages from grassroots prospects through to advanced projects with significant drilling campaigns.
• Baseline level of proficiency in standard desktop software packages (e.g., ArcGIS or QGIS).
• Strong leadership skills including the ability to motivate and inspire others, to share ownership and responsibility for project outcomes, and to work effectively in collaborative, interdisciplinary teams.
• Previous experience in coaching and training geoscientists of varying experience, educational backgrounds and cultures in leading-practice mineral exploration.
• Demonstrated commitment to high standards of health and safety in the workplace.
• A minimum of 3-7 years experience in the mineral exploration industry.
• Fluent in Swedish and English and residency within Sweden.
• A valid passport and willingness to travel to observe our work at Mingomba or at an exploration site around the world.

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Responsibilities and Duties As a technical lead, perform strategic mine design and engineering analyses, including mine design sequencing & scheduling utilizing Deswik software suite. Conduct or support a full range of mine engineering functions, including: Detailed design of Mingomba underground mine Engineering trade-off studies Cost estimation and economic analysis of alternatives Preparation of technical documents including public disclosure documents for Mineral Resources and Reserves Provide feedback to geological and geotechnical modeling as necessary.

Support both surface and underground facilities engineering Apply KoBold’s Project Management standards to manage all aspects of projects Work collaboratively across engineering disciplines and technical staff to develop the skills and procedures needed to effectively deliver mining engineering assignments Serve as an internal technical resource and provide guidance and mentorship to junior-level staff.

Identify, develop, and follow through on value engineering opportunities Mentor staff to support their growth and professional development.

Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company resources and conduct and adhere to KoBold’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.

Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.

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