Sasol Vacancies 2023 Apply Online Sasol Careers Portal @www.sasol.com

Short Description / Purpose of Job

• Support the Strategic Initiatives Lead in executing the strategic initiatives to successfully deliver on the Commercial Business transformation plan and ensure all strategic and financial targets are met both in the short and long term.

• Provide support to the strategic initiative owners in planning of initiatives, including defining initiatives, identifying milestones, and developing clear road maps for implementation.

• Be seconded to specific mission critical strategic initiatives team to be directly involved in the thinking, development and execution of the initiatives.
• Track and report on the implementation of strategic initiatives against established milestones and KPIs, including developing report packs for the Steering Committee.
• Assist initiative owners in identifying roadblocks and interdependencies across the strategic initiatives and business units and processes, and develop a consolidated view for the Strategic Initiatives Lead.
• Assist initiative owners in developing required capital request forms and submissions to secure capital for the strategic initiatives from Sasol’s capital forum.
• Develop all required communication documentation on the Commercial Business transformation to the Steering Committee and all other relevant stakeholders.

 

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Support the effective definition, road-mapping, and delivery of all strategic initiatives.
• Provide relevant information to the Strategic Initiatives Lead to enable the development of an integrated transformation roadmap across all the strategic initiatives, noting the interrelations and interdependencies.
• Utilise the prioritisation framework to prioritise strategic initiatives as part of the integrated transformation roadmap.
• Fully integrate into the mission critical strategic initiatives teams to provide sufficient support to successfully execute the initiatives.
• Engage initiative owners to track and develop reports on the progress towards the implementation of their initiatives against established milestones and KPIs.
• Identify and develop a consolidated view of roadblocks and interdependencies across the strategic initiatives to report to the Strategic Initiatives Lead.
• Support initiatives owners in the development of capital request forms and submissions and ensure they are completed in a timely manner.
• Develop all required communication documentation on the Commercial Business transformation to the Steering Committee and all other relevant stakeholders.
• Assist the Strategic Initiatives Lead in identifying and recommending external advisors required to support on strategic initiatives development.
• Conduct a detailed review across all strategic initiatives to ensure that all Sasol compliance, policies and other internal and external standards are adhered to and report findings to the Strategic Initiatives Lead.

 

 

Formal Education

University Bachelor’s Degree.

Honours, Post-graduate Degree or MBA will be an advantage.

 

Min Experience

 

11 years relevant experience with 5+ years of project execution, strategic thinking or business management experience, preferably with specific experience in Energy.

 

Certification & Professional Membership

None.

 

Competencies

Self-Assurance: Strong-willed, confident, independent, and headstrong individual that can successfully support the execution of a transformation under pressured conditions.

Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting.

Strategic Thinking and Problem Solving: Follows a step-by-step process of defining or identifying a problem, ideating solutions, testing solutions until an ideal solution is landed upon. Uses critical and logical thinking, analysis and persistence.

Partnership Leadership: Persuades and influences stakeholders effectively; builds relationships and partnerships for overall win-win outcomes.

Situational Leadership: Effectively deals with a variety of situations and circumstances that arise unexpectedly.

Project Management: Plans, organizes, and manages tasks to accomplish well defined objectives, usually within the constraints of time, resources, and cost.

Organisational effectiveness: Ability to operate in and leverage the wider organisation.

Risk Management: Effectively manages the process of measuring or assessing risk and then developing strategies to manage the risk.

Financial Management: Demonstrates knowledge and application of Financial Management: the strategic and functional management of the set of processes, customs, policies, laws, and institutions affecting the way Sasol’s finances are directed, administered, and controlled.

Business Acumen: Demonstrates an intuitive and applicable understanding of how a Commercial business or unit makes money. Displays a thorough understanding of what drives profitability. Maintains a market-focused and customer-centric approach to business.  Keeps an overall big picture understanding of the Commercial business and its interrelationships enabling them to make better business decisions.

Verbal Communication: Effectively and clearly communicates to drive transformational change and stakeholder engagements.

Collaboration: Ability to collaborate with different teams across functions to achieve project goals.

Integration: Can develop a comprehensive and consolidated view with various parts, circumstances, legislation, landscapes or aspects linked or coordinated across the transformation and strategic initiatives.

Facilitation: Can assist in expediting a process or operation quickly and efficiently for the benefit of the transformation. Particular focus is on meetings, capital approvals, procurement processes etc. where either other individuals or departments are involved and their participation is critical to success.

Compliance: Understands the rules, regulations, policies, sanctions and other statutory requirements, guidelines and instructions relating to governing bodies and organizations, both internally and externally, for Sasol.