Cluster Engineering CAPEX Lead

Cluster Engineering CAPEX Lead Unilever – 61 Katherine Street, La Lucia Ridge, Gauteng, South Africa Function: Supply Chain Scope: Local Location: 61 Katherine Street, La Lucia Ridge, Johannesburg Terms & Conditions: Full time Job Purpose This role leads the delivery of the Southern Africa cluster capex program with a strong emphasis on financial governance, forecasting accuracy, digital transformation, and capability building. It integrates finance expertise into engineering operations, ensuring strategic alignment, value‑driven decision‑making, and operational excellence across the Southern Africa cluster. Key Responsibilities Lead capital planning and governance, ensuring adherence to accounting policies, and driving net productivity. Challenge and influence capex decisions to ensure financial prudence and strategic alignment. Develop and maintain forecasting tools and dashboards (e.g., Power BI, Jazz), driving digital transformation through system integration and AI‑enabled decision support. Act as Marlin/Jazz system lead for Southern Africa, providing user support, training, access control, and maintaining the Schedule of Authority (SOA). Deliver regular training sessions on CEPs, DCFs and governance for engineers and finance teams to embed governance and forecasting principles. Lead post‑investment reviews and savings tracking to ensure capital efficiency. Support succession planning through structured handover modules and mentoring. Output / Performance Metrics OTIF delivery of Project Reports and Performance Reports. Delivery of Cluster Eng. Metrics for Capex. Annual Capex delivery vs. target. Net productivity bias. Forecast accuracy and governance compliance. Number of training sessions delivered and feedback received. Engagement in One Engineering Community and cross‑functional initiatives. Experience & Preferred Qualifications Either an Engineering Degree or a Finance degree. Skills Strong attention to detail. High bias for action, responsibility and integrity. Leadership Requirements Personal Excellence & Emotional Intelligence – consistently strive to perform at their best, maintain wellbeing, resilience, and high personal standards, while demonstrating empathy and emotional intelligence. Collaboration & Influence – facilitate productive engagement within and outside the organization, inspire and motivate others, and foster a results‑driven environment. Accountability & Ownership – take responsibility for outcomes, make data‑driven decisions, and show initiative without the need for close supervision. Agility & Continuous Improvement – embrace agile principles, iterative learning, and prioritize customer value, while actively contributing to building an agile culture. Purpose‑Driven Leadership – act with humility, guided by a strong sense of purpose aligned with Unilever’s mission of sustainable living, and view leadership as service to others. Employee Advocacy – encourage employees to champion company values and initiatives, understanding the importance of advocacy and managing external perceptions. Resilience & Problem‑Solving – demonstrate adaptability, resilience, and the ability to navigate ambiguity and solve problems independently. Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors Care deeply: care deeply about how consumers experience our brands every day, everywhere; about our people’s growth and development, and our impact on the planet. Bring emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others. Set high standards for themselves. Demonstrate humility and service as leadership. Focus on what counts: set clear and stretching goals, recognize maximum performance impact, generate intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Stay three steps ahead: think boldly and creatively to make breakthroughs in performance, stay curious and confident, anticipate and stay ahead of consumer needs and external trends, adopt an iterative and incremental, test‑do‑learn approach, and use data and insight to make decisions. Deliver with excellence: deliver everything with excellence and pace, take personal ownership and hold each other to account, and find ways to do what they said they would do. Equal Employment Opportunity Statement Unilever is an equal opportunities employer and committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. We invite applications from all candidates representing diversity of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. When appointing potential candidates, the South African Employment Equity and Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Legislation will be considered. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. If you are applying as a foreign national, you may be requested to provide supporting documents. This is an office‑based role in Johannesburg OR Durban and requires 100% of time attendance on site. Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. If you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey. #J-18808-Ljbffr