Vacancies at Astron Energy (Pty) Ltd.

Contract End Date - 31/01/2023

Play a vital role in contributing to the growth strategies of the Supply Trading and Optimisation Department  by being exposed to high level projects and business activities in Planning and Pricing, Scheduling and Trading

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Contract End Date - 31/01/2023

Astron Energy is offering a Graduate Internship for the duration of 24 months
Location: Cape Town

Play a vital role in contributing to the growth strategies of the Logistics Department (Lubricants Manufacturing Plant)  by being exposed to high level projects and business activities such as lab testing, realising of samples from incoming raw materials, bulk loading, lab orders and QA for empty packaging and QC for instruments and basic understanding of Laboratory Practice.

Requirements :

• A South African Citizen with a South African bar-coded identity document
• Tertiary qualification: BSc /BTech Chemistry
• Must not be currently employed or on any learnership or internship programme
• Ages between 18 – 35 years
• Persons living with disability are encouraged to apply.

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• Astron Energy is offering a Graduate Internships for the duration of 24 months
• Start date : 1 January 2023
• Location: Johannesburg

Play a vital role in contributing to the growth strategies of the Retail Department  by being exposed to high level projects and business activities focusing on commercial property evaluation and development, and assessing the feasibility and risk of properties

Requirements:

• A South African Citizen with a South African bar-coded identity document
• Tertiary qualification in the respective fields BSc Property Studies
• Must not be currently employed or on any learnership or internship Programme
• Ages between 18 – 35 years
• Persons living with disability are encouraged to apply

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Play a vital role in contributing to the growth strategies of the Innovations Department  by being exposed to innovative projects for the company

Requirements:

• A South African Citizen with a South African bar-coded identity document
• Tertiary qualification in the respective fields BCom Information Systems;Bsc Information Systems &BCom Business Management
• Must not be currently employed or on any learnership or internship Programme
• Ages between 18 – 35 years
• Persons living with disability are encouraged to apply.

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Astron Energy is offering a number of graduate internships for the duration of 24 months
Location: JHB

Requirements :

• A South African Citizen with a South African bar-coded identity document
• Tertiary qualification in
• Must not be currently employed or on any learnership or internship programme
• Ages between 18 – 35 years
• Persons living with disability are encouraged to apply.

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Astron Energy is offering a Graduate Internship for 24 months in the Marketing Department.

Qualification: BCom: Digital Marketing/Business Science/Computer Science & Finance

Location: JHB

Start date: 1 January 2023

People with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Ability to manage accounts by selling and marketing our range of products. 

• Ensuring that our pricing is market relevant per market

• Understanding competitor activities per market

• Assist with the co-ordination and execution of key deliverables as per the marketing strategy project plan

• Represent marketing strategy & contribute during integrated / alignment workgroup sessions with other departments / project teams

  Sourcing, assimilation and analytics of key data sets required for marketing strategic workstreams

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Astron Energy is offering a Graduate Internship for a period of 24 Months.

• BCom: Sales & Marketing
• Location: JHB

Start Date: 1 January 2023

• People with disability are encouraged to apply.
• Manage small Exports and IDC Fuels accounts
• Lead vetting of potential accounts for all Lubricants sales teams in Hubspot
• Assist the Indirect Lubricants sales teams with the preparation of the Quarterly Business Reviews decks
• Submit a monthly volume forecast for responsible accounts
• Hold monthly sales meetings with their responsible accounts

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Astron Energy is offering a Graduate Internship for a period of 24 months.

• Qualification: BSc/BEng Tech: Mechanical Engineering

Start Date: 1 January 2023

• Location: CPT/JHB
• People with disabilities are encouraged to apply
• Assist in updating our PM system in terms of input from Lead Operators.
• Provide photographic evidence of well maintained equipment vs ‘defective equipment’
• Assist in updating/training operator understanding of the equipment.
• Project management resource for facility projects – depending on the terminal need.  This will allow for scope after the first 3 items have been completed.
• Part of the above requirements would need them to attend AE run courses such as Managing Safe Work.

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Contract End Date - 31/01/2023

Astron Energy is offering a Graduate Internship for a period of 24 months.

Qualification

• National Diploma: Finance/Accounting

Start date

• 1 January 2023

Location

• Durban

People with Disabilities are encouraged to apply.

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locations

• Milnerton

time type

• Full time

Contract End Date

•  31/01/2023

Astron Energy is offering a Graduate Internship for a period of 24 months

Qualifications

• National Diploma: Finance/Accounting

Start date

• 1 January 2023

Location: CPT Refinery

People with disabilities are encourage to apply.

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Astron Energy is offering a Graduate Internship for the period of 24 months

Qualifications: BSc: Chemical Engineering

Start date

• 1 January 2023

Location: CPT Refinery

People with disabilities are encouraged to apply

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Astron Energy is offering a Graduate Internship opportunity for the duration of 24 months

Qualification:

• BCom Management Accounting / Financial Accounting

Location

• Cape Town

Start Date: 1 January 2023
People living with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

• Analyse Business Unit Performance
• Compile & Present Performance Reports
• Provide inputs and presentation material for Corporate Reporting
• Deliver monthly earnings reforecasts
• Support and validate cost savings initiatives

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Astron Energy is offering a Graduate Internship for the duration of 24 months

Qualification: BCom: IT/Information System
Start date: 1 January 2023
Location: CPT
People living with disabilities are encouraged to apply

• Manage helpdesk calls and participate in mini projects/initiatives in Refinery IT function to deliver an expected outcome and objective.
• Skills acquired include but not limited to Team work, Internal/External Conflict Management, Problem Solving, Risk Analysis.
• Critically Review, Assess and Validate the requirements of compliance controls in the IT Department to determine efficacy.
• Skills acquired Research analysis, Validation and Verification methodologies, Verbal and Literacy Communication skills
• Manage / Facilitate various meeting forums to enhance skills associated with stakeholder engagement, facilitation, planning and time management to name a few.

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Astron Energy is offering a Graduate Internship for the duration of 24 months

Qualification

•  Honours Data Analytics

Start date

• 1 January 2023

Location: CPT
People living with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

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locations

• Cape Town

time type

• Full time

Contract End Date

• 31/01/2023

Astron Energy is offering a Graduate Internship for the duration of 24 months.

Qualification

•  BCom Accounting (Hons)

Start date

• 1 January 2023.

Location

• Cape Town

People living with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

The candidate will be rotated to different finance groups during the year to broaden their experience. The groups are:

• Credit
• Tax
• Decision, Support & Reporting (DSR)
• Revenue Accounting

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Astron Energy is offering a Graduate Internship for the duration of 24 months

• Qualification: BA Linguistics/Communications/Public Relations
• Start Date: 1st January 2023
• Location: Cape Town

People living with disabilities are encouraged to apply

• Support the development of internal communications material and stories from conceptualization to publishing, liaising with internal team to source relevant information, photographs and audiovisual content 
• Assist with logistics and communications for all employee engagement activities, e.g. town halls, heritage day, women’s day celebrations.
• Support issues management and stakeholder engagement  by researching emerging and current issues and helping to produce presentation material for government and other stakeholder engagements. 
• Support issues management and stakeholder engagement  by researching emerging and current issues and helping to produce presentation material for government and other stakeholder engagements. 
• Act as departmental gatekeeper for corporate identity standards, supporting internal and relevant external stakeholders on use of the company’s corporate identity and brand guidelines, and assist with editing communications accordingly.

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The primary purpose of the role is to ensure safe, reliable and continuous supply of fuel products into the Inland Depots where Astron customers are supplied either via secondary distribution or customer own collection in a most efficient and economical manner. The Inland Schedulers are also responsible for primary supply of volume for the Botswana market. The scope of the role covers all main fuels (Petrol, Diesel and Kerosene). The depots covered are 7 in Total with some Owned and Operated and Some JV and non-operated. The mode of product is mostly pipeline deliveries and some road for bridging.

Working closely with the National Supply Operations Coordinator (NSOC), the Inland Schedulers (DIS) are responsible for executing and operationalising the AOP plan for delivery of products in that corridor via imports, cross pumps and injection into the pipeline at the lowest possible cost to the business safely at all times. The DIS will deliver these duties through the following:

• Translate Area Operations Plan (AOP) into a detailed 4 week lifting plan for designated area with minimal deviation following a well detailed Supply Logistics Plan as an output of the AOP with particular focus to delivering products to Astron depots at the optimal value to the business
• Update the Supply monitoring tool (SAP) and the various Stock management systems with the plan
• Utilise the Transnet Portal to order pipeline injections and deliveries with consultation with the competitors and adhere to contractual volumes
• Utilise buy/sell contractual tolerances to Astron’s advantage to leverage opportunities to keep the Astron Inland market wet
•  Manage the Astron stock movements at the depots by managing complex and sometimes conflicting requirements between Depot Managers, Sales (All Channels) and Suppliers (Other Oil Companies)
• Have the ability and the acumen to act swiftly in a situation where there is a risk to a stock position at a depot by either one of above stakeholders.
• Manage and own relationships with the JV partner’s Schedulers in all our Inland JV depots, ensuring seamless scheduling and operations of volumes between the parties in and out of the JV depots
• As part of the stakeholder relationship management continue to strengthen the relationships with Transnet Pipeline Planning and Operations team, Road Hauler contractors in order to always gain the best value for Astron
•  Communicate daily, weekly with Sales, T&O Fleet and Depot Managers on issues of product movements in and out of the depots
• Optimise the product moves into the depots while balancing Inventory targets to minimise potential working capital costs to the business
• Participate in the weekly Short Term Planning meeting in order to re-optimise the 4 weekly on a weekly basis
• During the unplanned shutdown or interruptions of pipeline movements either by pipeline disruptions or Unplanned Competitor Refinery shutdown, leverage on the relationships to implement hustle strategy to find alternative supply points on a short notice to meet Astron’s market requirements
• Galvanise and implement immediate communication protocol to the necessary internal stakeholders when the potential product supply disruptions
• On a monthly basis work with TPL to reconcile the volumes due to Astron and work with the Internal team report to Finance

Professional Qualification and Certifications: B Degree/ National Diploma

Work Experience: more than 5 years experience in the Industry

Knowledge and skills:

• Communication
• Working well in pressured and demanding environment
• Ability to work in diverse teams with potential conflict of ideas
• Ability to network with different external and internal stakeholder
• Leverage on own network and relationships
• Ability to deal with a continual change and ambiguity

Application deadline:

07 October 2022

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Partners with retailers to achieve profitable operations, growth in volumes and improved profitability. Monitors that service station facilities and dispensing equipment are properly maintained. Resolve any field related problems that may arise whilst ensuring attainment of Credit KPI’s

Sales and Operations Management

• Ensure Marketing customers are profitable in terms of supply chain and customer profitability direction
• Utilizes MOS system and tools to inform account planning and NOI improvements to high-grade the customer network
• Responsible for area value chain optimization plans to maximize gross margin. Plans and executes marketing strategies, processes, programs, standards and operations across the various classes of trade for fuels, lubricants and additional profit centers, consistent with the business plan and the AE way
• Achieves financial and operational goals, and for integration of all marketing-related activities within designated territories
• Manages a professional and healthy business relationship between AE and Retailers within the designated territory
• Partners with retailers to achieve profitable operations, growth in volumes and improved profitability
• Achieves financial and operational goals including image stewardship, customer first, brand, health environment and safety. Conducts business advising calls as per agreed call cycle to review, measure, report and assist retailers towards achieving agreed business plan targets, counseling retailer on profitability and suggesting actions, then reporting progress and/or recommendations to AE management
• Ensures complete and robust account plans for the district to ensure profitability at customer level, plus monitors monthly performance and agreed action plans to ensure NOI targets are achieved
• Ensures consistent and disciplined execution of processes/procedures/programs and systems towards achieving business plan commitments within the sales area and channel, across class of trade for fuels, lubricants and additional profit centers as appropriate, consistent with the business plan and the AE way
• Monitors that service station facilities and dispensing equipment are properly maintained. Resolve any field related problems that may arise whilst ensuring attainment of Credit KPI’s

2. Planning & Reporting

• Utilizes MOS system and MOS tools on a daily basis to manage customer profitability and track OEAT and NOI metrics. Annually conveys AE business plan targets and requirements for inclusion in future plans and reviews and aligns and negotiates retail site plans, customer account plans and profitability improvement plans to achieve these on a regular basis
• Handles and submits on time any documentation required as well as all internal company reports and surveys. Shares this information with the Retailers and AE management to assist with business strategies

3. Retailer Selection / Identification of new business opportunities

• Assists with retailer selection process of new retailers - this includes initial interview, business plan panel and thereafter site installation
• Interfaces with all affected business units to manage a seamless implementation. Carefully monitors the market and competitor moves and strategies to identify new business opportunities, volume growth opportunities and solutions for Retailers related to growing business and shared strategic planning which dovetails AE growth areas and anchor markets with that of the customer

4. Retailer Development
• Assists the retailers with in-house training as and when required, ensuring that all retailers and relevant staff are developed to a high standard of proficiency in the sale of our product range and the AE systems to run the business

5. Market Intelligence
• Monitors and benchmarks external trends including competitors, regulations, industry trends and structure, as well as new business opportunities and keeps informed of competitive acquisition activity
• Recommends policy updates to Management to meet competitive market conditions. Tracks and benchmarks competitive activity within the territory, then analyses to understand the implications of external environment changes on the business to enhance decision making

6. OE and Compliance
• Implements and monitors Corporate operational excellence safety standards and programs for all customers
• Ensures that the retailer is aligned with all AE processes as well as government regulations such as health environment and safety, licensing and local ordinances
• Complies with the operational excellence / health environment and safety Corporate standards and incorporates into daily guidelines. Ensures full compliance with company policies/SOX as it relates the marketing

Work Experience:

• At least 3-5 years of business operations and sales experience preferably in a retail environment, ideally in a petroleum industry
• Track record in driving performance improvement
• Knowledge of both fuel and non-fuel retailing
• Sound verbal/written communication skills
• An affinity for brand building, well developed negotiation, relationship building and problem-solving skills
• An unendorsed driver’s license and availability to travel and deal with retailer emergencies after hours
• Track record of operational excellence delivery and ensures that all employees under his/her responsibility understand and fulfil their compliance obligations
• Creative and critical problem-solving skills
• Numerical and analytical thinking skills

Application deadline:

06 October 2022

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Contract End Date - 31/01/2023

Astron Energy is offering a Graduate Internship for the duration of 24 months

Qualification

• Tertiary qualification in the respective fields:
• BCom: Digital Marketing/Finance/Management
• Bachelor of Business Science
• BSc: Computer Science

Location: JHB
Start date: 1 January 2023
People living with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Account Management

•  Ability to manage accounts by selling and marketing our range of products. 

Pricing Management

• Ensuring that our pricing is market relevant per market

Market Research

• Understanding competitor activities per market