Business Manager: Safety, Security and Sustainability - Fourways at Omnia (Pty) LTD

Overview    

The Business Manager to the Executive: Safety, Security and Sustainability is responsible for assisting the Executive: Safety, Security and Sustainability leadership team to manage and deliver on complex strategic projects. 

This is an ideal role for a highly organized and efficient individual who enjoys project coordination support for various programs, projects, events, and activities.

Qualifications    

• Bachelors or Masters degree in sustainability, engineering or business administration related qualification 

Experience    

• 5+ years’ experience working with Board and Executive level
• Experience and/or knowledge of safety, security and/or sustainability disciplines
• Proven track record of effectively interacting with senior management
• Ability to work strategically and collaboratively across departments
• Effective, versatile and action-oriented
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, inclusive of written English
• Ability to gather data, compile information, and prepare reports
• Ability to perform complex tasks and to prioritize multiple projects
• Superior research, writing, and oral communication
• Ability to create, compose, and edit correspondence and other written materials
• Ability to supervise and train employees, to include organizing, prioritizing, and scheduling work assignments
• Experience with data analysis

Duties    

• Provides direct support to the MD:
• Participates in program management for the executive, which involves duties on a weekly, monthly, and ad hoc basis
• Operational management as delegated by the executive
• Organises and gathers information from various departments and meetings and reports that information, along with recommendations, to executive members 
• Coordinates and directs communication for the executive by filtering only the most essential communication and controlling the meeting schedule
• Strategically manages the executives time through looking at long term travel calendar, evaluating opportunities and determining fit with priorities
• Participates in meeting preparation and follow up by reviewing upcoming meetings for the week to ensure all information needed is received as well as sending out agendas or documents to meeting attendees as necessary
• Reviews internal and external communications by drafting reports, speeches or presentations for the executive
• Research, write, edit and/or coordinate preparation of special reports, briefings and presentations

Strategic Planning

• Co-ordinates and participates in strategic initiatives by leading, executing and reporting results back to the executive
• Leads the annual strategic planning process for the function by acting as a project manager and ensuring alignment with the executive, leadership and wider SSS team
• Creates and updates dashboards for reviewing key performance indicators

Project Management

• Overseeing large, often cross-functional organization-wide projects or initiatives
• Brings together multiple stakeholders and helps drive decision-making
• Researching, benchmarking, analyzing data, and making recommendations
• Participates in systems and processes to streamline operations
• Office of the executive 
• Provide leadership and effective management in all areas of staffing and personnel, administration, project completion

Other duties

• Keeps up with industry trends by reading literature and communicating with peers
• Monitors market trends
• Other duties as required

Job Competencies    

Cognitive Competencies

• Strategic Thinking
• Analytical Thinking 
• Organisational Awareness
• Business and Financial Acumen
• Data Literacy
• Decision Making