Current Vacancies at Exxaro Resources

    PURPOSE:

• To ensure data is managed according to data governance requirements
• To ensure the availability of accurate Key Performance Indicators on a value chain level as required by business to support efficient and effective production planning, optimization and reporting
• To enable effective in time decision making facilitating year on year improvements through data management
• Ensure data is integrated and managed in a manner that ensures and maintains a single version version of the truth, available in the required time frame and aligned to business processes to enable citizen report building
• To ensure stable, accurate data flows and alignment between the data marts

Minimum Requirements    
QUALIFICATIONS:

•    BSc Engineering (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum or)
•    BSc Computer Science (Essential/Minimum or)
•    BEng Engineering (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum or)
•    BEng Computer Engineering (Essential/Minimum)
•    Certificate First Line Management (Essential/Minimum)

EXPERIENCE: 

• 3-5 years Relevant experience within a heavy industry, mining, production environment. Knowledge of development processes. With proven technical aptitude in one or more application programming domain. Ability to work in Agile and non-Agile environments. With a minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in using data to empower better decision making, through reporting, analyses and models. Need to have a good understanding of data and the business        (Essential/Minimum)    Operational

REQUIREMENTS: 

•    Certificate in SQL Database Coding (Essential/Minimum)
•    Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
•    Competence: Simulation Modelling (Essential/Minimum)
•    Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
•    Competence: MS Office Relevant Package (Essential/Minimum)
•    Competence: Discipline Specific Program (Recommended/Desirable)

Duties & Responsibilities    
Data Delivery    

• Drive the data strategy implementation
• Ensure master and reference data that supports the data owner’s area of control is appropriately managed to support effective consolidation, aggregation and integration of data
• Identify and document critical data assets within the business of accountability
• Responsible for the maintenance data measures and Key Performance Areas (KPI’s) required by any reporting using this area’s KPI’s
• Ensure relevant reports are built correctly and relevant maintenance thereof
• Responsible for the creation and implementation of governance around data structure, data flow and reporting to ensure a robust data set usable by all
• Responsible for the implementation of all relevant data forums
• Inputs and logic support on the architecture, design, and implementation for automated analytics and reporting to support the business unit. Ensuring data is useable in business context
• Uses the organizational data blueprint provided by the data architect to gather, store, and prepare the data in a framework from which the data scientist and data analyst work
• Supporting IM in building and testing maintainable Enterprise Data Architectures that is supporting the data strategy

Data Governance    

• Ensure data governance that allows agility through DevOps way of work
• Manage "one version of the truth", big picture database & data logic (Ensure no duplication of KPIs between DMs)
• Run and facilitate all data forums
• Ensure governance and process is in place and remains relevant as technology changes
• Ensure data flow logic consistent in all areas (in support of/with IM architecture and reporting governance)
• Ensure data flow logic is visible and simple to use to anyone needing to build a report
• Ownership of one version of truth between different data bases

Data Management    

• Authorise data definitions, changes to data and the use of data i.e. access approval
• Ensure that vital business records are classified according to security requirements and categorised within the appropriate data themes
• Identify data stakeholder roles, organisations, processes and applications
• Ensure any new systems designed adequately address data integrity, data quality, data privacy and security risks
• Ensure information risks, incidents or events, issues and control weaknesses are identified and communicated in a manner that allows timely corrective action to be taken
• Focused on the day-to-day tasks of cleaning, wrangling, and preparing data for other data consumers, such as data scientists and citizen report builders
• Key enabler to the integrated operations centre for data scientists and analysts in assessing and aligning data requirements for the BU, and in updating / modernising data visualisation feeds

Effective People Management    

• Gives guidance to those performing the role of Data Custodians and Developers
• Works with Data Custodian to ensure business requirements are implemented as intended
• Ensure an optimised team structure is manned by staff that is motivated, empowered and lead by sound performance management and transformational leadership practices
• Promote teamwork, provide support and manage performance by creating and maintaining individual development plans of subordinates
• Assume responsibility for managing manpower, efficient resource allocation, and declaration of competence and reduction of operating cost

Performance Management and Continuous Improvement  

• Translates business need into Code to ensure value adding user stories
• Drive research and development initiatives to ensure continuous improvement and enhanced performance
• Keep abreast of new developments and ensure potential threats within designated area is identified and addressed timeously
• Benchmark plant/mining activities and track performance to indicate improvement opportunities
• Ensuring relevant dashboards available for shift change caucuses & any other relevant forum where data is required for performance management and decision making

Safe and Healthy Work Environment  

• Maintain and ensure a healthy environment and safe operations practices
• Ensure compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations

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

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    PURPOSE:

• To ensure data is managed according to data governance requirements
• To ensure the availability of accurate Key Performance Indicators on a value chain level as required by business to support efficient and effective production planning, optimization and reporting
• To enable effective in time decision making facilitating year on year improvements through data management
• Ensure data is integrated and managed in a manner that ensures and maintains a single version version of the truth, available in the required time frame and aligned to business processes to enable citizen report building
• To ensure stable, accurate data flows and alignment between the data marts

Minimum Requirements    
QUALIFICATIONS:

•    BSc Engineering (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum or)
•    BSc Computer Science (Essential/Minimum or)
•    BEng Engineering (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum or)
•    BEng Computer Engineering (Essential/Minimum)
•    Certificate First Line Management (Essential/Minimum)

EXPERIENCE: 

• 3-5 years Relevant experience within a heavy industry, mining, production environment. Knowledge of development processes. With proven technical aptitude in one or more application programming domain. Ability to work in Agile and non-Agile environments. With a minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in using data to empower better decision making, through reporting, analyses and models. Need to have a good understanding of data and the business        (Essential/Minimum)    Operational

REQUIREMENTS: 

•    Certificate in SQL Database Coding (Essential/Minimum)
•    Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
•    Competence: Simulation Modelling (Essential/Minimum)
•    Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
•    Competence: MS Office Relevant Package (Essential/Minimum)
•    Competence: Discipline Specific Program (Recommended/Desirable)

Duties & Responsibilities    
Data Delivery    

• Drive the data strategy implementation
• Ensure master and reference data that supports the data owner’s area of control is appropriately managed to support effective consolidation, aggregation and integration of data
• Identify and document critical data assets within the business of accountability
• Responsible for the maintenance data measures and Key Performance Areas (KPI’s) required by any reporting using this area’s KPI’s
• Ensure relevant reports are built correctly and relevant maintenance thereof
• Responsible for the creation and implementation of governance around data structure, data flow and reporting to ensure a robust data set usable by all
• Responsible for the implementation of all relevant data forums
• Inputs and logic support on the architecture, design, and implementation for automated analytics and reporting to support the business unit. Ensuring data is useable in business context
• Uses the organizational data blueprint provided by the data architect to gather, store, and prepare the data in a framework from which the data scientist and data analyst work
• Supporting IM in building and testing maintainable Enterprise Data Architectures that is supporting the data strategy

Data Governance    

• Ensure data governance that allows agility through DevOps way of work
• Manage "one version of the truth", big picture database & data logic (Ensure no duplication of KPIs between DMs)
• Run and facilitate all data forums
• Ensure governance and process is in place and remains relevant as technology changes
• Ensure data flow logic consistent in all areas (in support of/with IM architecture and reporting governance)
• Ensure data flow logic is visible and simple to use to anyone needing to build a report
• Ownership of one version of truth between different data bases

Data Management    

• Authorise data definitions, changes to data and the use of data i.e. access approval
• Ensure that vital business records are classified according to security requirements and categorised within the appropriate data themes
• Identify data stakeholder roles, organisations, processes and applications
• Ensure any new systems designed adequately address data integrity, data quality, data privacy and security risks
• Ensure information risks, incidents or events, issues and control weaknesses are identified and communicated in a manner that allows timely corrective action to be taken
• Focused on the day-to-day tasks of cleaning, wrangling, and preparing data for other data consumers, such as data scientists and citizen report builders
• Key enabler to the integrated operations centre for data scientists and analysts in assessing and aligning data requirements for the BU, and in updating / modernising data visualisation feeds

Effective People Management    

• Gives guidance to those performing the role of Data Custodians and Developers
• Works with Data Custodian to ensure business requirements are implemented as intended
• Ensure an optimised team structure is manned by staff that is motivated, empowered and lead by sound performance management and transformational leadership practices
• Promote teamwork, provide support and manage performance by creating and maintaining individual development plans of subordinates
• Assume responsibility for managing manpower, efficient resource allocation, and declaration of competence and reduction of operating cost

Performance Management and Continuous Improvement  

• Translates business need into Code to ensure value adding user stories
• Drive research and development initiatives to ensure continuous improvement and enhanced performance
• Keep abreast of new developments and ensure potential threats within designated area is identified and addressed timeously
• Benchmark plant/mining activities and track performance to indicate improvement opportunities
• Ensuring relevant dashboards available for shift change caucuses & any other relevant forum where data is required for performance management and decision making

Safe and Healthy Work Environment  

• Maintain and ensure a healthy environment and safe operations practices
• Ensure compliance with all applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations

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

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PURPOSE:

• To manage, coordinate and administer contracts with suppliers.
• To assist the Manager, Group Contracts and Procurement with improving contract coverage and achieving commercial savings.

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

• Providing a contract management service to multiple Business Units, for multiple commodities.
• Continuous pressure exists on continuously improving in terms of cost effectiveness, innovation and productivity.
• Turnaround times of contract establishment and Statement of Work.
• Maintaining and effectively executing high volumes of users demands and active contracts.

Minimum Requirements    
QUALIFICATIONS:

•    B Degree (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
•    Certificate First Line Management (Essential/Minimum)

EXPERIENCE: 

• 3-5 years Relevant supply chain or related; procurement, contract management experience. Adept in working with MS Office, various databases and contract management systems. Understanding of Enterprise Resources Planning and/or Cloud based procurement solutions (e.g. SAP MM, Coupa).        (Essential/Minimum)   Operational

REQUIREMENTS: 

•    Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
•    Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
•    Competence: MS Office Relevant Package (Essential/Minimum)

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Best Practice and Knowledge Management    
• Identify and support the implementation of process and system enhancements to continuously improve contract management process
• Study/research best practice processes and benchmark the Company processes at regular intervals
• Assist in mitigating risk in terms of contractual exposure to the Company

Business Partner Enablement    

• Identify, evaluate and support business partners/end-users to develop disciplined sourcing execution capabilities
• Provide process advice to business partners/end-users through in- transaction guidance and support
• Working with various internal and external stakeholders to expand and enrich supply chain content

Compliance, Governance and Assurance

• Ensure supplier stakeholders comply with relevant regulatory requirements
• Consolidate reports and provide feedback to the Manager, Group Contracts and Procurement on appropriate contract management reporting and governance requirements
• Collaborate and communicate with suppliers
• Implement portfolio targets in alignment with legislation and charters (e.g. Mining Charter, Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE), etc.)
• Provide guidance to stakeholders to ensure adherence to all policies, procedures, standards and guidelines
• Ensure supplier stakeholders comply with relevant regulatory requirements
• Consolidate reports and provide feedback to Contracts Manager on appropriate contract management reporting and governance requirements
• Provide effective advice to the wider organisation on contract/agreement entitlements, obligations, and purchasing methods and quantities

Contract Management    

• Compile and manage contracts with service providers
• In conjunction with internal stakeholders, ensure that all relevant category strategies and governance requirements are met
• Negotiate, conclude and administer contracts throughout the contract lifecycle
• Evaluate contractual terms and condition and provide recommendations
• Responsible for the proactive management of contract lifecycle milestones for a portfolio of contracts
• Evaluate contract stipulations and provide recommendations
• Communicate and ensure adherence to contractual rights and obligations
• Record and monitor contract compliance and renewal applications
• Investigate the need for contract extensions and terminate contractual relationship upon completion if required
• Obtain approval for relevant contracts and documentation in line with governance requirements and departmental budgetary stipulations
• Responsible for safekeeping and retention of contractual documentation in accordance with Group standards and policies
• Manage the end to end contract management process
• Develop and implement contracting portfolio project plans
• Develop, socialise and implement contracting strategies
• Ensure all contracting plans incorporate and address Social and Labour Plans (SLP’s), Mining Charter and BBBEE preferential procurement objectives
• Compile tender documentation, issue Request for Quote (RFQ), adjudicate tenders in collaboration with technical and commercial specialists
• Ensure guidance and planning to contract modifications, price adjustments and contract close out
• Communicate and ensure adherence to contractual rights and obligations
• Contribute to supplier development including Local Economic Development
• Develop and maintain key supplier agreements with a continuing focus on efficiency gains
• Identify opportunities for cost savings through product substitution, market testing, or other means
• Actively participate in organisation planning as it relates to procurement activities

Customer and Client Relationship Management    

• Maintain a database of supplier information and continuously ensure that integrity and quality of data are relevant and of required standard
• Liaise with internal stakeholders and suppliers in the development of Service Level Agreements (SLA's) with suppliers
• Support on-boarding of new suppliers and manage supplier relationships
• Proactive engagement with suppliers and internal stakeholders related to contractual matters, i.e. disputes, claims, performance etc.
• Work collaboratively, efficiently and effectively with both internal/external customers and/or stakeholders
• Build sound relationships with Business Unit (BU) end-users, key suppliers and colleagues
• Build and nurture effective and influential relationships with internal and external stakeholders, suppliers, and partners

Financial Management    

• Support and adhere to functional budget requirements and cost containment goals
• Prepare contracting project plans and strategies
• Manage allocated contract portfolio from a contract life cycle management and milestone perspective
• Conduct annual demand planning
• Act as a specialist expert in contract life cycle management process
• Represent Group to negotiate and secure approval on various commercial contracts for our client's Group (strategic sourcing and BU contracts)

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 and bureaucracy
• Apply functional best practices, promote sharing of best practices and knowledge
• Assist in the execution of functional excellence initiatives

Internal Business Processes    

• Provide weekly feedback on progress related to contract lifecycle management activities
• Actively contribute to achieving Supply Chain Management (SCM) balanced score card targets
• Comply and adhere to Group processes, procedures and standards in the execution of contract lifecycle management activities
• Conduct monthly reporting on contracting process
• Ensure procurement savings occur
• Compile tender documentation as per project
• Determine commercial and financial evaluation of tenders
• Obtain tenders from specific marketplace through marketing process

Performance Management    

• Identify reporting needs and validate against framework
• Finalise competency requirements
• Confirm roles, responsibilities and expectations
• Determine capability and performance gaps in order to identify training needs
• Adhere to roles, responsibilities and expectations of the SCM process
• Comply with people performance and individual development processes and initiatives

Safe and Healthy Work Environment    

• Maintain and ensure a healthy environment and safe operations Practices while ensuring compliance with all applicable Safety Health Environment and Community (SHEC) policies and procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in all operations
• 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