Senior Analyst, BI X2 - Lephalale 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)
•  Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)

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