Key Insight
Client
Newmont Peñasquito Local Suppliers Portal
Newmont is one of the world’s largest gold mining companies, with major operations across the Americas. Its Peñasquito mine in Zacatecas, Mexico is one of the largest gold operations in Latin America — and like all major mining operations, it depends on a healthy local supply chain to operate efficiently, meet community expectations, and deliver on local procurement commitments to the regions that host it.
For Newmont, demonstrating that engagement publicly — and making it easy for local Zacatecas suppliers to register, qualify, and find opportunities – wasn’t just a procurement requirement. It was a community and reputational priority.
The Challenge
In 2021, Newmont engaged IONYX to build a corporate-facing site that would present Peñasquito’s commitment to the local supply chain in Mexico, encourage local suppliers to register, and connect them through to the procurement systems that would actually manage their engagement.
That meant building something that needed to land with two very different audiences at once. It had to feel friendly, approachable, and locally relevant to small and medium-sized businesses in Zacatecas – many of whom would be navigating a corporate procurement portal for the first time. And it had to remain fully compliant with Newmont’s global brand guidelines, so the site sat naturally within the wider Newmont corporate identity rather than feeling like a regional disconnect.
The site also needed to be genuinely bilingual – English and Spanish at parity, not Spanish-as-translation-of-English – to serve Zacatecas suppliers in their first language while remaining accessible to Newmont’s global stakeholders.
The Solution
IONYX worked with multiple stakeholders across Newmont — corporate, regional, procurement, communications — to design a public site that bridged the corporate-and-local divide. The UX was intentionally simple and intuitive, drawn from input on what the local market would actually find approachable, while every visual and editorial decision was checked against Newmont’s brand guidelines. The result is a corporate site that reads as locally Mexican without ever drifting from the global brand.
The website launched fully bilingual in English and Spanish, with both languages treated as primary rather than primary-and-translated. Site architecture, navigation, content structure, and supplier-facing communications were designed for both audiences from the start.
The technical centrepiece is the integration with the Local Suppliers Portal – IONYX’s procurement platform, selected by Newmont to manage supplier engagement across the Peñasquito procurement process. The corporate site acts as the public front door: a local supplier discovers Peñasquito’s local procurement program, learns what registration involves, and moves seamlessly through to the Local Suppliers Portal to register, complete prequalification, and enter the active supplier base. From the supplier’s perspective, the corporate site and the procurement system feel like a single experience.
The Results
Newmont Peñasquito now has a public-facing supplier engagement presence that genuinely meets the local market where it is – in Spanish, in Zacatecas, with a tone and design that feels approachable to small businesses considering their first major procurement registration. Behind that public experience, the Local Suppliers Portal manages the operational reality: registration, prequalification, compliance, opportunity management, and supplier communications.
The model has proven robust enough to support Peñasquito’s local procurement program over the years since launch, and the bilingual architecture has positioned Newmont to extend the same approach to other Latin American operations without rebuilding from scratch.
