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Purpose of Job

• To deliver on the short-term and long-term targets of revenue, gross margin, fixed costs, working capital and customer satisfaction within a framework of safety and compliance.
• To specifically ensure that the M&S business objectives including margin improvement, sales growth, reduction in order cycle times and contributing to successful strategic projects are achieved.

Key Accountabilities

• Deliver Base Chemicals working capital objectives such as reducing deep sea brought forwards.
• Implement established sales policies, procedures, and practices to meet requirements supporting short and long-term business needs.
• Develop and attain key performance indicators for implemented sales strategies.
• Sell-out allocation of product within assigned markets of responsibility (across Global Markets, Africa Markets and Cross Border).
• Maintain accuracy of all forecasts submitted per product and area with adherence to planning guidelines.
• Excel on price negotiations with attention to business guidelines and market movements.
• Focus on customer service – both direct customers and distributors.
• Work with the various business stakeholders (P&O, Supply Chain, M&S Services, Credit Management, Finance) to ensure delivery of the Export sales plan and overall business objectives.
• Take full accountability for own customer accounts including payment, credit, complaints, and deliveries.
• Conduct sales analytics and report writing.
• Ability to cover for other Sales Managers in the rest of the export markets.
• Support and coach the export sales support team members.
• Demonstrate commercial acumen, a global mind-set and exercises sound judgement. Achieves results through others and holds them accountable.
• Persuade and influences stakeholders; builds relationships and partnerships for win-win outcomes.
• Build teams and create synergies through working across boundaries.

Formal Education

• University Bachelors Degree

Working Experience

• Experience: 11+ relevant years

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Purpose of Job

• To validate correct design methodology and parameters in excavation design and to support overall mine design, to ascertain coal mines stability of Sasol Group mining in line with mine health and safety act.

Key Accountabilities

• Provides expert advice on Operational and Long Term balance regarding safety, cost and production.
• No failures of excavations.
• Create systems (e.g. ground management standard, equipment retrieval standard, mine stability and layout, etc.) which embed safe practices as a natural way of doing things.
• Training and enabling functional specialists as well as operating personnel to understand rock mass risks and lead indicators.
• Distil complicated concepts into simple, visible, practical training material.
• Ensures Long Term stability of critical capital structures and environmentally sensitive areas by the selection of appropriate excavation and pillar design parameters in consideration of the local geological and geotechnical environment.
• Identify, develop and introduce best practices regarding mine design/pillar design, mining methods, support design and monitoring methods, tools and equipment.
• Remain competitive compared to our competitors.
• Solutions established and embedded in the long term.
• Prime responsibility for annual Rock Engineering budget and significant secondary impact on mining cost, production rate-and cost and reserve utilization.
• Delivery against budget and reporting calendar vs target.
• Working capital & cash position vs target, cash flow vs forecast.
• Price and TCO performance vs index and benchmarks.
• Overall accountability for strategy to strive towards best in class safety performance and continuous improvement of key safety metrics to maintain license to operate.

Short Description

• Grade 12 
• University Bachelors' Degree or B Tech in Engineering 

Working Experience

• Experience: 8+ relevant years

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Purpose of Job

• The Sasol Snr Architect Enterprise Architecture (Manufacturing Technology) forms part of a core team that drives the visioning, architectural design, value definition and transformation planning through leveraging digital and other technologies.

Key Accountabilities

• As a Manufacturing Technology Architect, you will be responsible for transforming manufacturing execution systems and platforms that enable plant value streams such as lab operations, process development, process control, industrial IT, manage maintenance & integrity, manage quality, manage production, manage SHE, manage exploration, manage logistics, Retail systems and interfaces into OT environment.
• The Manufacturing Technology Architect will work with MES, IIT and OT systems that span across Secunda plant operations, Mining operations, Sasolburg plant operations, ROAS operations, Mozambique plant operations and London operations.
• The Manufacturing Technology Architect is also leading and orchestrating the effort of scanning the market for technology driven innovation opportunities and communicating their realistic business value expectations to business and IM leaders.  The Manufacturing Technology Architect is a crucial enabler that will drive balance between enabling high velocity and innovation for relatively autonomous Product Teams, while at the same time protecting the integrity and end-to-end strategy of Sasol’s technology landscape.
• The Manufacturing Technology Architect drives deep collaboration on the Portfolio level with the Operations Portfolio & Product Delivery team, through regular one-to-one alignment sessions, Architecture Forums, ad-hoc discussions and Solution Architecture Chapter meetings. Together with Senior Solution Architects across the Portfolio & Product Delivery team they ensure the design of pragmatic and clear guardrails across Sasol and find ways to optimise Information Technology costs. Engagement with Product Owners and Portfolio Owners will be key to understand their unfiltered views on the constraints and opportunities of the technology stacks serving each Product. The Manufacturing Technology Architect defines and ensures adherence to Enterprise Architecture standards and leveraging fit-for-purpose technologies.
• With regards to subject matter, the Manufacturing Technology Architect is responsible for driving sustainable and long-term value-increasing architectural principles, approaches and patterns, such as building modular but fluently integrated solutions from loosely coupled components backed up by solid data management. The Manufacturing Technology Architect must also ensure the use of effective, common frameworks and guidelines to drive improved and consistent quality in the solutions provided. They adapt the pace of Enterprise Architecture work and collaboration with the pace of the Product Teams, acting as accelerators at innovation enablers rather than bottlenecks.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Design and provide guard rails for the implementation of Manufacturing Execution solution based on enterprise business requirements and IT strategies
• Guide an enterprise implementations and global rollouts together with program and project managers
• Gather, translate and consolidate strategic business requirements
• Analyse enterprise business drivers to determine corresponding architectural requirements
• Develop a solution strategy on the evolution of the enterprise manufacturing platforms from current to future state
• Ability to translate business needs into architecture requirements, value cases and roadmaps
• Architecture designs based on Azure and OSI PI platforms

Formal Education

• University Bachelor's Degree preferably in following disciplines
• Engineering: Electrical and Electronic (B.Ing)
• Computer Sciences
• Informatics/Information Technology

Experience

• SAP integration projects for industrial organization (SAP PP, MM, SD, WM) modules
• Experience in managing full end to end MES implementation including OT interfaces and environment
• Good understanding of ERP integration and shop floor systems (e.g. OPC) integration
• Knowledge of MES (Manufacturing Execution System, Real Time Platforms, Access Control, IIT and Retail), Manufacturing Operations concepts/systems & Plant Automation Controls
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills – the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts
• Good understanding of DevOps methodology
• Deep Knowledge and design experience in Microsoft Azure and OSI Soft Platforms
• Understanding of ISA 95/ISA 88 guidelines
• Strong communication skills with both internal team members and customers.
• Internally motivated, able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment
• Follow best practices for developing applications and services.
• Strong initiative to find ways to improve solutions, systems, and processes.
• Hands on experience of machine integrator for Shop floor equipment integration with MES
• Experienced with broad range of Manufacturing solutions e.g. Honeywell systems, Aspentech, Siemens, Aveva, Historians etc.

Working Experience

• Experience: 9+ relevant years