Solutions Architect - Smart Mining at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Job Description & Summary

A career in our Management, Risk and Technology Consulting practice, within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world’s largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.

Our team works with clients to define their vision and plan how to get there. We deliver the technological solutions organisations need to compete and grow and we build a lasting legacy of improvement and performance, partnering with best in class technologies and solution sets. Our focus areas include helping our clients align their Information Technology capabilities with their business strategy, create integrated, end to end technology solutions, and leverage data and enterprise applications to solve complex business problems.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Develop new skills outside of comfort zone.
• Act to resolve issues which prevent the team working effectively.
• Coach others, recognise their strengths, and encourage them to take ownership of their personal development.
• Analyse complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations.
• Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations.
• Address sub-standard work or work that does not meet firm's/client's expectations.
• Use data and insights to inform conclusions and support decision-making.
• Develop a point of view on key global trends, and how they impact clients.
• Manage a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties.
• Simplify complex messages, highlighting and summarising key points.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Job Profile Summary

A career within Operations Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients optimise all elements of their operations to move beyond the role of a cost effective business enabler and become a source of competitive advantages. We focus on product innovation and development, supply chain, procurement and sourcing, manufacturing operations, service operations and capital asset programmes to drive both growth and profitability.

Responsibilities

As a Manager, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

1. Proactively assist in the management of a portfolio of clients, while reporting to Senior Managers and above
2. Be involved in the financial management of clients
3. Be actively involved in business development activities for the Smart Mining solution and to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
4. Support the development of Smart Mining build programme
5. Contribute to the development of your own and team’s technical acumen
6. Develop strategies to solve complex technical challenges
7. Assist in the management and delivering of large projects
8. Train, coach, and supervise staff
9. Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues
10. Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand

Additional Job Description

Preferred skills

1. Minimum of Engineering degree in Mining
2. Post graduation degree in mining will be preferred 

Minimum years experience required

1. At least 5 years of functional or consulting experience in the mining industry is required
2. Hands on experience in executing digital engagements for mining companies
3. Strong understanding of the mining technology landscape

Additional application instructions

1. Strong inter personal skills
2. Strong data analytics capability
3. Be a team player

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required: