Micro Battle Lead Mining at Sasol

Short Description / Purpose of Job:

• Lead all aspects of the processes to develop category strategies to optimize Sasol’s external spend for the mining equipment and services commodities.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities:

• Lead and oversee the development and implementation of strategies for the category in order to realise increased business value for Sasol by leveraging external spend through a total cost of ownership reduction approach.
• Typical spend optimization levers will include both operational and commercial levers.
• Lead cross-functional and cross-divisional project/task teams for external spend optimization.
• Prepare for and lead negotiations of high value / strategic contracts to unlock external spend savings in collaboration with team members from regional maintenance hubs and commercial specialists.
• Analyse the stakeholder landscape and proactively manage relationships to ensure support for and participation in processes to develop and implement external spend optimisation strategies.
• Oversee and coordinate the implementation of operations improvement levers identified during the Win phase of external spend optimization microbattles.
• Ensure that Sasol’s business transformation imperatives (BBBEE compliance, industry sector-specific transformation charters, etc.) are supported and enabled when identifying and implementing external spend optimization initiatives.
• Drive procurement efficiency improvement and risk reduction by implementing effective methods to maximise 'on-contract' and automated spend within the category.

Formal Education:

• 4+-year University Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Mining)
• MBA / MBL (Wish)

Min Experience:

• 10+ relevant years in technical, procurement or commercial roles with 5+ in a management role.

Competencies:

• Business Leadership: Demonstrates commercial acumen, a global mind-set and exercises sound judgement. Achieves results through others and holds them accountable.
• Partnership Leadership: Persuades and influences stakeholders; builds relationships and partnerships for win-win outcomes. Builds teams and creates synergies through working across boundaries.
• People Leadership: Authentically and inclusively engages people to follow; leads culture transformation. Builds capability and leverages diversity for competitive advantage.
• Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting.
• Strategic Leadership: Provides vision and direction aligned to One Sasol. Leads organisational change, innovation and sustainability.
• Negotiation and Deal-making: Leads and oversees deals through negotiations focused on an integrative, value creating process.
• Total Cost of Ownership reduction: Proven ability to understand drivers of total cost in the business, not limited to levers impacting direct purchasing cost, and implement initiatives to drive total cost of ownership down.