Senior Analyst, BI - Kriel at Exxaro Resources

PURPOSE:

• To facilitate Business Unit level improvement teams to realise business goals aligned with Business Unit improvement targets.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

• Translating business goals and challenges to functional and area targets for Business Unit.
• Facilitating operational teams to improve performance.
• Analysing of operational team's performance.

Minimum Requirements    
QUALIFICATIONS:

• B Eng (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (Recommended/Desirable and/or)
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (Recommended/Desirable)
• Management Development Programme (Recommended/Desirable)

EXPERIENCE: 

• 6-8 years  Relevant Business improvement or business excellence, economical evaluations, improvement methodologies experience.      (Essential/Minimum)    Operational

REQUIREMENTS: 

• Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
• Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro0

Duties & Responsibilities    
Best Practice and Knowledge Management    

• Intellectual property management and protection
• Create and manage professional networks
• Participate in tertiary educational relationships and in professional external forums
• Continuously monitor exchange and preservation of information between operations and individuals to facilitate effective knowledge management
• Stay abreast with advances in the field of business improvement and innovation

Business Performance, Operations and Continuous Improvement    

• Support management in the development and implementation of Business Improvement (BI) strategy
• Translate business strategy and business unit targets into specific functional area targets
• Design and direct improvement processes
• Ensure implementation of BI strategy and strategic initiatives through facilitating decision-making, optimisation and improvement processes at Business Unit (BU)

Business Review Process    

• Support business review process by evaluating critical performance areas 6 monthly, quarterly and monthly within business unit level
• Implement and track metrics to enable measurement of process efficiency and effectiveness
• Audit current processes and identification of areas of opportunity

Customer and Client Relationship Management  

• Support core business by ensuring appropriate stakeholder relationships toward enhancing corporate profile
• Manage internal and external relations including the interface with external providers or other functions responsible to ensure that business needs are met, and employees are satisfied

Functional Excellence    

• Adhere to functional policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, end to end processes, tools, templates etc.
• Assist in standardising, simplifying and speeding-up functional processes, eliminating duplication/bureaucracy
• Apply functional best practices, promote sharing of best practices and knowledge

Optimisation Support    

• Support BI and operational excellence initiatives through business analysis, root cause analysis, idea generation facilitation and structured innovation
• Identify, manage and execute breakthrough projects
• Project planning and tracking against work plans including budget and cost control
• Define project level issue management processes and procedures

Optimisation and Efficiency    

• Execute BI and operational excellence framework and process on business unit level
• Implement common operational/BI initiatives for a business unit
• Manage multiple breakthrough projects at business unit level
• Facilitate knowledge transfer and contribute to business optimisation function Community of Practice (COP)
• Ensure continuous business process reviews in conjunction with business owners and users
• Determine needs and facilitate business improvement initiatives, upgrades or enhancements
• Ensure integration and alignment between BU’s in liaison with COP leaders
• Conduct research regarding best practice and benchmark processes at regular intervals
• Assure that new best practice processes are facilitated and established
• Explore and analyse information toward achieving informed business decision-making
• Keep abreast with BI and innovation practices, benchmark data and technology-based enablers which impact on BI

Safe and Healthy Work Environment    

• Adhere to all health and safety practices and promote good housekeeping on an ongoing basis
• Address all unsafe practices, potential hazardous situations and rectify and report to superior
• Comply with Safety Health Environment and Community (SHEC) and technical requirements
• Wear applicable Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) at all times

Behavioural Alignment  
Demonstrates the following:

• Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
• Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical
• Ability to respond quickly to business needs/agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions
• Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures, accepts different approaches and be human-centric/empathetic
• Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective

Closing Date    
2023/08/28