BM Business Enablement Support at Astron Energy (Pty) Ltd.

Key areas of responsibility include:

• Supporting the Astron Energy Branded Marketer team and the Branded Marketer partners to deliver business plan margin and volume objectives, through:
• Ensuring strategic enablement of product supply and logistics for day-to-day fulfilment of product demand at the right time and right location
• Own and manage all supply, logistics, marketing and finance relationships and communication on behalf of the BM Team.
• Building, coordinating the scheduling plan and interface for the BM department for all Supply, Logistics, Marketing and Finance projects where the BM department is impacted. Drive alignment and required participation. This is a key role to ensure the interface between the BU’s to ensure the value chain is optimized.
• Look for opportunities and work with Supply, Logistics, Marketing and Finance stakeholders to ensure new ways of working and new opportunities and enablers are implemented to drive efficiency in the business.
• Partner with Terminal Managers to generate & align) the forecast and input for all terminals.
• Take the lead in collating and coordinating the Branded Marketer input and actions for EBM and other similar processes for Branded Marketer partners.
• Active participation in strategic initiatives including the BM strategy formulation and implementation.
• Through deep understanding of contracts, provide guidance and influence the content of the agreement to Legal the BM team with contract management and work with ESMs to ensure contractual obligations are met by all parties.
• Develop, collaborate, track and report on all BM processes and drive compliance and continuous improvement (SHEQ, Retailer selection etc.
• Work with Credits Team to ensure business enablement on credit line during public holidays and peak periods.
• Manage all quality circle meetings with terminal teams and Branded Marketer partners to discuss challenges and drive solutions.

Professional Qualification and Certifications:

• Sales/ Marketing Degree

Work Experience:

• Minimum 5 years Sales & Operations experience in the oil industry
• Direct management and leadership of business support functions
• Deep understanding of the fuels industry supply chain and its dynamics
• Project management experience

Knowledge and skills:

• Commercial acumen and good understanding of value drivers
• Contract management knowledge.
• Extensive experience and mastery in  Collaboration and Influencing.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strategy development and delivery
• Program management (the process of execution and influencing to get it done across multiple stakeholders with multiple projects
• Creative and critical problem-solving skills
• Numerical and analytical thinking skills
• Stakeholder relationship management
• Good presentation skills
• Fuel industry knowledge.
• Logistics management experience
• Good team building skills.
• Ability to foster trust relationships with key stakeholders.