Senior Specialist, Innovation – Centurion needed at Exxaro Resources
Job title : Senior Specialist, Innovation – Centurion
Job Location : Gauteng, Centurion
Deadline : March 29, 2024
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QUALIFICATIONS:
- B Eng (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum or)
- B Degree (Hons) (Relevant) (Essential/Minimum)
- Certificate Project Management (Recommended/Desirable)
- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (Recommended/Desirable)
EXPERIENCE:
- 6-8 years Extensive experience of developing, maintaining and delivering innovation activities in a corporate support service environment.
- Experience in business process modelling, workflow analysis and process redesign.
- Experience in stakeholder management. Strong analytical and problem-solving
skills
- Knowledge of project management methodologies, tools and software.
- Strong planning, organising and integration skills, with proven ability to manage multiple projects and prioritise tasks effectively.
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
- Highly effective engagement and communication skills with an emphasis on translating technical concepts to variety of project stakeholders.
- Ability to balance multiple priorities, meet timelines and budget and pro-actively raise scope, schedule, and budget risks.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Project Management Professional (Recommended/Desirable)
- Certificate of Fitness (Essential/Minimum)
- Psychometric Assessment (Essential/Minimum)
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
- Stay abreast with advances in field of technology and innovation
- Support functional sponsors and process owners in the development and implementation of improvement and innovation strategy
- Support functional sponsors and process owners in the development and implementation of improvement and innovation strategy
Business Review Process
- Support business review process by evaluating critical performance areas bi-annually, quarterly, and monthly within support functions
- Implement and track metrics to enable measurement of process efficiency and effectiveness
Creativity
- Develop new ideas and strategies for the organizations by utilizing AI and Digital tools
- Research trends in the industry, customer preferences and other information to develop innovative ideas.
- Research other industries and their processes to find inspiration for new ideas
Customer and Client Relationship Management
- Manage internal and external relations including the interface with external providers or other functions responsible to ensure that business needs are met, and processes are optimised.
- Provide relevant support to applicable stakeholders
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/bureaucracy
- Apply functional best practices, promote sharing of best practices/ knowledge
Optimisation Support
- Support Business Improvement (BI)/Operational Excellence (OE) initiatives through business analysis, root cause analysis, idea generation facilitation and structured innovation
- Support the identification, management, and execution of breakthrough projects
- Project planning and tracking against work plans including budget and cost control
- Define project level issue management processes and procedures
Optimisation and Efficiency
- Design and execute improvement and innovation framework and processes for support functions across the organisation
- Implement common continuous improvement methodology for support functions across the organisation
- Assist with, and manage multiple innovation projects across support functions throughout the organisation
- Facilitate knowledge transfer and contribute to innovation community of practice (COP)
- Ensure continuous business process reviews in conjunction with business owners/users, determine needs and facilitate business improvement initiatives, upgrades, or enhancements
- Ensure integration, alignment, and realisation of synergies between support functions in conjunction with leaders
- Keep abreast with industry trends regarding best practice and benchmark processes at regular intervals
- Assure new best practice processes are facilitated and established for support functions across the organisation
- Keep abreast with innovation practices, benchmark data and technology- based enablers which impact on support functions.
- Translate business goals and challenges to functional and area targets across the organisation
- Assist and support functional teams to drive and embed innovation to improve performance
Safe and Healthy Work Environment
- Adhere to all health/safety practices and promote good housekeeping on an ongoing basis
- Address all unsafe practices/potential hazardous situations and rectify/report to superior
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