ERP Platform Manager at Sasol

Purpose of Job

• Lead the definition, creation, thought leadership and provisioning of the SAP/ERP platforms to drive business value and support operations. 
• Responsible for the general health (availability and stability) of relevant applications and delivery of all contracted services. 
• Ensure that related ERP Platforms and their upgrades and enhancements are planned, designed, built and deployed successfully to meet the needs of the Product Delivery Teams. 
• Be accountable for ERP/SAP Platforms roadmaps and ensures that they are aligned to the IM strategy and enable long-term business improvement goals. 
• Work closely with the Product Team starting from Discover & Describe phase to bring in the technology considerations and opportunities in the demand evaluation. They offer a range of deliveries, from large scale complex programs to simple rapid delivery projects, supported by the relevant knowledge, skills, tools and techniques (e.g. Agile, PMP, MSP). 

Key Accountabilities

• Develop and manage relationships with technology partners and lead the ERP Platform's related technology watch upon industry and technology trends to assess for future opportunities and roadmaps. 
• Understand and manage the application licenses to ensure that they drive optimisation. 
• Work with relevant teams to identify and implement automation initiatives in the application environments. Drive proactive monitoring and AIOPS of the applications to ensure that systems stability. 
• Responsible for ensuring the sustained performance of the platform that is driven by AIOPS, tasked with finding automation opportunities to optimise the platforms day-to-day running, define and manage the strategic vision, manage capacity, resources and co-ordinates prioritisation sessions with stakeholders from each portfolio. 
• Focus on ensuring that Product Portfolio teams underlying platform is stable and responsible for ensuring the sustained performance of the ERP platform, finding automation opportunities to optimise the platforms day-to-day running, define and manage the strategic vision, manage capacity, resources and co-ordinates prioritisation sessions with stakeholders from each portfolio. 
• Responsible for all the SOX tests in the ERP platform to ensure that they are well executed to prevent risks and audit findings. 
• Provide input to the strategic direction for Platforms in terms of providing clear north star vision for Sasol’s business and technology. 
• Work with Enterprise Architects, Senior Solution Architects and technology partners to ensure alignment of IM Platform visions and roadmaps with IM strategy and target Enterprise Architecture and Vendor Management. 
• Establish and provide platform maintenance roadmap and business case and ensures that proper knowledge management process and systems are in place for platforms and services. 
• Manage the vendor ecosystem and responsible for the TCO of platforms. 
• Ensure Requirements Management, Service Design, Process Design and Solution design for Platform and Services. 
• Prepare proposals for optimisation, upgrades, retirement and/or replacement of Platforms. 
• Collaborate with Delivery Management to develop DevOps technology strategy and implementation frameworks to align with the different Platform roadmaps. 
• Drive buy-in and adoption of platforms enhancements and upgrades. 
• Collaborate with delivery management to ensure that all the solutions and changes adheres to Deployment, Transition & Change Management practices. 
• Set Service Continuity, Capacity, Event and Availability Management standards for Platform and Services. 
• Set standards for the support & implementation partners for SLA and KPI framework that is aligned with the vision for the Platforms. 
• Ensure that all platforms related solutions and changes are tested in accordance with the Quality Assurance & Testing practices and policies. 
• Drive adoption and implementation of quality assurance and test automation practices in the platforms and solutions. 
• Work with the IT Hardware and Software Asset Management teams to ensure that there is proper inventory management and asset management for all platform assets. 
• Collaborate with service providers and other platform managers to ensure configuration management completeness, compliance and correctness.

Formal Education

• Universty Bachelor's Degree (Information Technology) OR Relevant Degree
• SAP Certificate (Wish)
• Industry Certification in architecture ((e.g., TOGAF, GxP, ISO 9000) - preferable
• Certification in a Business Process Management Methodology (e.g., BPM, SDLC, ITIL, DevOps, Agile, COBIT). preferable

Working Experience

• 11+ relevant experience 
• SAP & SOX Experience - Must

Certification and Professional Membership

• ITIL 4 Foundation. Azure Fundamentals, COBIT 5

Deadline:4th September,2025