Manager, Business Improvement

3 weeks ago

Pretoria, South Africa Exxaro Recruitment Full time

**Job Advert Summary**:
**PURPOSE**:

- Custodian of operational excellence programme for relevant area
- To manage the implementation of operational excellence and optimisation initiatives for relevant area
- To ensure knowledge sharing and duplication of improvement and innovation opportunities between Business Unit areas.

**MAJOR CHALLENGES**:

- Operational excellence and cost efficiency
- Value chain optimisation
- Defining initiatives to achieve group Earnings Before Interest and Taxes (EBIT), cost and cash flow targets for relevant area
- Driving a culture of improvement and innovation.

**Minimum Requirements**:
**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- B Eng (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
- Management Development Programme (Essential/Minimum)
- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (Recommended/Desirable or)
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (Recommended/Desirable)

**EXPERIENCE**:
8-10 years Relevant job-specific experience. Successfully managed a business improvement or optimisation programme, preferable in a mining/resources environment. Business improvement
- or business excellence, economical evaluations, improvement methodologies (Lean Six Sigma (LSS) and Theory of Constraints (TOC) (Essential/Minimum) Operational

**REQUIREMENTS**:

- Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)
- Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum) (To be conducted by Exxaro)

**Duties & Responsibilities**:
**Best Practice and Knowledge Management**
- Intellectual property management and protection
- Create and manage professional networks
- Participate in tertiary educational relationships
- Participate in professional external forums
- Continuously monitors exchange and preservation of information between operations and individuals to facilitate effective knowledge management
- Stay abreast with advances in field of business improvement and innovation

**Business Performance, Operations and Continuous Improvement**
- Execution of the annual business plan assurance process. Responsible for pre-work and assurance preparation, mobilising and briefing the BU team, facilitating the assurance site visits, distributing the critical findings and tracking the execution of mitigation actions against these findings
- Provide support to Business Optimisation Manager on target setting process
- Cascade targets (Earnings Before Interest and Taxes (EBIT), cost, cash flow) down to operational
- and departmental level, taking into account business and capital cycles

**Business Review Process**
- Responsible for the operational performance review process (monthly performance review) for relevant area
- Ensure performance review actions are captured, assigned, distributed and tracked

**Customer and Client Relationship Management**
- Support core business by ensuring appropriate stakeholder relationships towards enhancing corporate profile
- Manage internal and external relations, including the interface with external providers or other functions responsible to ensure that business needs are met and employees are satisfied

**Functional Excellence**
- Implement business optimisation functional policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, end-to-end processes, tools and templates etc.
- Drive and execute functional excellence initiatives
- Oversee and monitor functional activities at area/cluster of responsibility
- Effectively manage matrix reporting
- Identify and manage critical functional risks at area/ cluster of responsibility through appropriate mitigation plans/actions

**Functional Management**
- Functional management: Responsible for the management of business improvement and industrial engineering functions for relevant area
- Financial management: Prepare/manage business optimisation function’s budget (Business Units (BU’s)) - aligned with and adhering to functional budget
- Performance management: Implement business optimisation functional strategic plan through disciplined execution processes and track implementation. Provide feedback to Business Optimisation Functional Manager. Hold staff responsible for achieving results. Remove obstacles that interfere with performance and handle performance problems
- Continuous improvement and functional change: Identify, advocate for and lead functional improvement and change. Create a culture of continuous improvement and change agility in function
- Engagement/communication: Communicate and engage functional employees including virtuals. Engage with operations and cross
- functionally with peers. Represent the function/the Company externally as required
- Governance: Ensure adherence to business optimisation function governance, policies and standards, statutory and legal compliance. Entrench a culture of discipline

**People Management**
- Staffing: Select, appoint and on-board business optimisation functional staff (BU’s)
- Talent development: Actively manage talent through regular assessment of employees’ strengths, development needs and development progress. Provide ongoing m

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