General Manager: Africa (Gauteng) at Fraser Alexander (Pty) Ltd.

PURPOSE

• This position exists to ensure the achievement of business objectives through existing contract execution and growth in the region. The incumbent would ensure that Fraser Alexander’s purpose is realised throughout Africa.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Divisional Business Management

• Provide strong operational management, ensuring critical measures are achieved or exceeded every month.
• Ensure effective country risk analysis, mitigation, and management.
• Ensure policy compliance in the division.
• Drive business planning and growth aligned with Fraser Alexander’s Africa strategy.
• Ensure jurisdictional governance and compliance, in addition to Fraser Alexander’s combined assurance requirements.

Leadership

• Ensure a culture of operational performance that is quality-focused and ensures consistent output.
• Develop a divisional leadership team that is innovative, determined to succeed, disciplined, and self-driven.
• Ensure a culture of delivering on expected outputs based on lean principles and effective cost stewardship through the application of the Fraser Alexander performance management system.

Financial Management

• Divisional financial performance management, including financial modelling for new projects and tenders.
• Country financial performance management, covering both top-line and bottom-line performance.

Risk Management

• Ensure alignment with Fraser Alexander’s Enterprise Risk Management and combined assurance framework.
• Evaluate country, client, and project risks and opportunities.

Contract Management

• Tendering (including risk matrix, financial models, margins, returns, etc.) and meeting approval requirements.
• Manage contracts to ensure business targets are met, including risk mitigation, production, cost, quality, and ESG objectives.

Customer Relations Management

• Target new clients and business opportunities.
• Maintain regular client engagement, ensuring a 100% customer satisfaction survey completion rate and positive feedback.

SHEQ Management

• Provide SHEQ standards and procedures aligned with client SHE programmes and Fraser Alexander Group requirements.

Growth

• Explore opportunities for new business.
• Initiate, support, and implement Fraser Alexander strategic initiatives for future growth and sustainability through ongoing in-country brand and business development.
• Review and authorise tender documents and proposals prior to submission.

Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS

• BSc or BEng Degree and postgraduate qualification.
• Management, business, or commercial-related qualification.
• Leadership Development

EXPERIENCE

• 15 - 20 years applicable experience will be required, some of which must be in the mining industry.

SKILLS, QUALITIES AND ABILITIES REQUIRED

• Mining services operational experience.
• Mining industry thought leader.