Latest Jobs at Sasol

Purpose of Job

• Sasol is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Solution Architect Travel (Concur) to join our team, focusing on the SAP Concur Travel and Expense management system. This is an internal, permanent position for a seasoned professional to lead the technical vision, design, and implementation of our Concur solutions. You'll be the vital link between our business and our IT team, ensuring our Concur platform effectively supports and streamlines our travel and expense processes. Your expertise will be crucial in translating business requirements into scalable and robust technical designs, leading solution delivery, and ensuring our systems are aligned with Sasol's business strategy and technology standards.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the development and optimization of our SAP Concur environment (Travel, Expense, Request)
• Advise internal stakeholders on SAP Concur processes and best practices
• Manage rollouts, upgrades, and system enhancements
• Oversee integration with all systems integrating with SAP Concur (e.g., SAP Finance, TMC, SAP Payroll)

Formal Education

• University Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field

Working Experience

• 9+ relevant years 
• Several years of professional experience in SAP Concur, ideally in an international setting and complex environments
• In-depth knowledge of SAP Concur Travel & Expense. Knowledge of financial systems, accounting principles, and SAP ERP integration is a significant advantage.

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Purpose of Job

• Formulate strategy linked to transforming existing businesses in Southern Africa
• Develop Sasol’s overall strategy linked to the transformation of its existing assets by identifying what it will take to win in the long term. Collaborate with working teams across the organisation to provide clear boundary conditions to develop options. Establish and maintain a decision-making framework to screen opportunities.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead future sustainable feedstock strategy for Southern Africa establishing where to play and how to win across the high priority feedstocks that have the highest probability of success.
• Lead future sustainable product strategy for Southern Africa establishing where to play and how to win across the high priority feedstocks that have the highest probability of success.
• Develop clear boundary conditions for business building to enable asset configuration studies.
• Establish investment criteria linked to transformation of existing assets.
• Collaborate with existing technical, marketing and business development teams to ensure a coherent approach linked to incrementally growing value.
• Ensure consistency on delivery of multiple workstreams to ensure a consistent comparative set of results that can be assessed against other portfolio priorities.
• Strong understanding of financial market metrics.
• Understanding of company valuation methodologies and the impact of choices on feedstock, assets and products on long term risk and value addition to the Sasol Group.

Formal Education

• Relevant 3–4-year University bachelor’s degree

Min Experience

• 12+ years, however this can be reduced based on relevant consulting experience or specific experience in financial market valuation methodologies

Competencies
Customer Centricity

• Engages and researches their customers, integrating their requirements to inform business decisions. External Focus: Gathers external information to inform the business' strategy and forecast the impact of the operating environment on the business.

Drives Innovation

• Innovates, works with agility, and leverages learnings at pace.

Business Ownership

• Sets strategic direction, maintains accountability for business outcomes and ensures that business-related concerns are raised and addressed.

Commercial Agility

• Utilises their strong business acumen to make effective commercial decisions at pace.

Delivery Excellence

• Creates robust approaches to delivery, effectively problem-solving and managing performance to achieve results.

  Partnerships

• Identifies new opportunities, builds and sustains win-win relationships and maintains a strong network of partners.

Develop Self

• Demonstrates self-awareness, actively works to improve their development areas, and seeks feedback.

Builds Talent

• Invests in the development of others, aligning stretch opportunities to colleagues' personal goals and proactively providing feedback.

Inspirational

• Acts and communicates in a way that creates meaningful impact, builds confidence in others, and gains buy-in. 

Collaborative

• Initiates collaboration, removes barriers to working across the business, and inclusively engages with others.

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Purpose of Job

• Provide maintenance services and repairs on Sasol own fleet – Fuel delivery vehicles and pool vehicles 

Key Accountabilities

• Compliance to all procedures and work instructions
• Knowledge and prior experience related to vehicles transporting dangerous goods
• Knowledge and prior experience of legal requirements related to vehicles transporting dangerous goods
• Conduct SANS 10231 inspections
• Good safety and housekeeping performance
• Highly effective interface and communication with all stakeholders
• Proactive and reactive maintenance activities on fleet.  Fleet refer to pool vehicles, MAN truck tractors and Tankers
• Fault finding on own Sasol Own fleet
• Identify defects and report to supervisor
• Brake testing
• Examine Workshop equipment and complete safety checklist
• Take responsibility for all safety aspects in his/ her area of responsibility
• Accurate feedback on maintenance activities performed encompassing relevant information.
• Ensure detailed record keeping of all maintenance and inspection activities performed.

Formal Education

• Grade 12
• Occupational Trade Certificate

Working Experience

• Experience: 5+ relevant years

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Purpose of Job

• Manage complex product portfolio nationally through strategic planning and ongoing product and pricing management, aligning product range offering to customer needs, and overseeing retail pricing architecture and tactics to secure they meet overall business objectives. Handle the interface between convenience suppliers and Sasol Group energy by sourcing and managing external suppliers in line with the preferred supplier strategy (i.e. negotiating trading terms, promotions, sales, and advertising rebates). Implement marketing strategy in alignment with business strategy and coordinate marketing efforts to support the achievement of business targets through the application of new initiatives to attract new and existing customers.

Key Accountabilities

• Meet and exceed targeted growths for complete financial year through innovative category and marketing initiatives whilst maintaining operational and legislative requirements.
• Develop strategies to meet evolving needs of consumers while maintaining and enhancing franchisee profitability.
• Devise new concepts to penetrate new or existing markets.
• Contribute to exploration of potential strategic partnerships.
• Meet set Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) targets (e.g. budget, turnover, margin optimisation, and ROI).
• Drive and create category growths and strategies.
• Establish and implement a commercially viable category strategy.
• Manage supplier performance and guarantee that listed suppliers comply with the relevant legislation and food safety regulation.
• Review supplier balance scorecard and industry benchmarks and work with suppliers to agree on tactics to achieve targets (e.g. sales per outlet relative competitive position).
• Source product in support of the C-Store and category strategies through effective supplier & profit mngmt.
• Negotiate price, promotional deals, and new lines, taking into account price tiering, segmentation, financial targets.
• Understand price position with customer price perception, KVI price strategy, and competitor pricing. Monitor local and international trends/competitor activity and formulate action plans to counter as well as category performances in line with product range, price, location.
• Verify that all franchisees comply with prescribed operational duties.
• Develop & communicate of procedures, proc, legislation, and systems.
• Coordinate training session for franchisees, franchise staff, internal stakeholders.
• Negotiate trading terms on a yearly basis with each supplier.
• Liaise with procurement and legal to negotiate new contracts.
• Guarantee that data contracts are in place for suppliers.
• Establish annual promotional plan for both national and regional drives in line with the convenience strategy and category tactics.
• Confirm that promotions are agreed on between suppliers and category manager with clear targets, milestones, activities set.
• Cooperate with the marketing team to approve point of sale elements.
• Ascertain that suppliers are sufficiently stocked for promotions and that deals are loaded timeously by the supplier.
• Conduct category specific post promotional analysis and assure that promotional billings and recoveries are up to date.
• Discover and adopt new ways of driving category growth that differentiates Sasol Group from competitors.
• Coordinate with category captains to find optimal product mix that addresses profitability, margins, and other relevant aspects.
• Approve and sign off store layouts with convenience manager based on site segmentation.
• Communicate the planogram to the franchise network.
• Execute the planogram roll out to the network & review planograms on a 6-monthly basis.
• Monitor planogram compliance and implement corrective action where necessary.
• Guarantee that the systems administrator updates relevant category data, promotions, pricing, listing as requested. Liaise with information mngmt on projects, innovation, roll-out, and testing.
• Apply evidence-based SHE practices in alignment with set stds for safe operations.
• Implement Sasol Group's risk philosophy and enterprise risk mngmt framework.
• Build & maintain positive relationships with relevant internal and external stakeholders to achieve results.
• Continuously improve own skills and knowledge.
• Complete, implement & track personal development plan to attain personal performance goals.
• Manage team performance & development formally and informally based on std practices in use across Sasol Group.
• Identify and activate learning as req based on individual and collective needs.
• Nurture a team spirit and openness towards feedback, collaboration, knowledge sharing, innovation.

Formal Education

• University Bachelor’s Degree

Working Experience

• Experience: 6+ relevant years

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Purpose of Job

• Manage Sasol Group relationship with franchisees and dealers in designated geographical areas / regions. Maximise return on investment through the business support to retailers and management of internal stakeholders. Foster superior customers service and enforce compliance with legislation as well as company brand and operating standards. Facilitate and support Sasol team and retails sites with roll out of initiatives and projects.

Key Accountabilities

• Assist stakeholders in the value chain through planning and making decisions to optimise production facilities. Achieve short-term volume forecasting with high accuracy. Meet monthly forecast sales volume and budget requirements including C-store and bakery turnover. Track performance of sites in a given portfolio against the business score card. Benchmark operating expenses for retail sites and support retailer to optimise margins. Anticipate credit needs of franchisees/ dealers and proactively arrange appropriate actions. Control own cash fixed costs within the approved target. Implement the retail and convenience strategy. Ascertain successful implementation of retail programmes and initiatives focused on business performance and development. Manage franchise network as per the provisions of the franchise agreement. Implement a safety improvement plan for self and own network. Support the retailer implement housekeeping practices to ensure clean and safe environment. Achieve and sustain an RCR target as prescribed. Provide leadership to manage and exceed customers' expectations. Offer professional advice to franchisees on competitor activities and how to improve their margins and benchmarking. Handle the asset register by taking ownership of the process to secure accuracy of equipment data. Administer the state and quality of Sasol Group's assets on site which may include facilitating the process to replace equipment where necessary. Ascertain that sites achieve a contracted percentage on mystery shopper results. Guarantee standardisation of C-store planogram. Identify training needs at sites and recommend training initiatives. Verify that new franchise appointments attended compulsory training and are fully competent. Support franchisees as a knowledgeable user of onsite systems (e.g. retail and ATG). Organise and follow up on activities to improve the Sasol Group brand image and customer focus. Validate that retail filling stations are in a good operating condition and within the Sasol Group standards. Confirm that customer complaints from the retail network and franchisees are attended to within hours. Facilitate the maintenance process on calls logged by franchisee and ascertain successful closure of the call. Guide the resolution of franchisee queries by taking ownership of the query and provide continuous feedback to stakeholders. Execute programmes developed by functions to enable Sasol Group to achieve its leadership target in the market. Act as a Sasol Group ambassador to build the credibility of the company. Confirm that safety audits from safety inspectors are implemented and that identified corrective actions are completed. Secure compliance with requirements pertaining to SHE, food safety, fuel stock reconciliation, and EMP as per ROD requirements. Assess, develop, implement and manage actions plans resulting from deviations. Implement best practices as shared from colleagues. Apply evidence-based SHE practices in alignment with set standards for safe operations. Implement Sasol Group's risk philosophy and enterprise risk management framework. Build and maintain positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders to derive maximum value from the capital invested in the retail network and enable win-win solutions with owners, tenants, franchisees, government departments, municipal authorities, and engineering companies. Continuously improve own skills and knowledge. Complete, implement, and track personal development plan to attain personal performance goals. Identify and activate learning as required based on individual and collective needs. Liaise with HR and/or specialised vendor for bespoke deployment. Nurture a team spirit and openness towards feedback, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and innovation.

Formal Education

• University Bachelor's Degree

Working Experience

• Experience: 6+ relevant years