Senior MR Specialist

Business Processes

• Enable new ways of working/management processes, which includes but not limited to agile transformations, lean implementations, start-up way facilitation
• Coordinate information across the cross-functional teams including internal and external employees and stakeholders
• Lead and coordinate small to medium teams, from clarifying objectives through to delivering results and outputs
• Liaise with multiple stakeholders to understand concerns and give input into the shaping of opportunities and improvements
• Facilitate workshops and events with multiple stakeholders
• Identify risks and opportunities and deliver on agreed outcomes

Capability Building    

• Drive own and team's development through formal, informal and experiential learnings to improve team performance
• Maintain an understanding of relevant technology, external regulation, and industry leading practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media

Coaching    

• Manage and deliver coaching and training requirements to develop other coaches and support resources in building new capabilities and ways of working

Objectives setting, tracking and reporting    

• Work within team and across the broader business to develop, manage and track Objectives & Key results (OKRs) related to projects in M2R and other relevant growth areas

People Management    

• Facilitate the communication between multiple stakeholders in the M2R community of practice, encouraging strong, fast paced and efficient decision making by maintaining an open forum for discussion and a space for constructive engagement in order to ensure Exxaro is future ready and equipped for rapid change
• Provide leadership that will enable the achievement of objectives
• Promote a high-performance driven culture and teamwork
• Enable an Employee Relations culture that promotes effective relationships between line management and employees

Project Management and Delivery    

• Manage and execute projects to facilitate effective delivery of the desired outcomes by delivering on and holding other team members / stakeholders accountable
• Develop project management and financial tools to track the executional and financial progress of the strategy

Research Analysis and Design    

• Lead project diagnostic assimilating research conducted by various stakeholders, developing a sound understanding of key themes and trends
• Plan scenarios based on modelling of data and advanced analysis to arrive at options and possible solutions

Safe and Healthy Work Environment    

• Maintain and ensure a healthy environment, safe operations and practices, ensuring compliance with applicable Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) policies and procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage a culture that focuses on safety in operations

Stakeholder Engagement    

• Drive internal and external stakeholder engagement to ensure the appropriate capability and capacity exists to effectively and efficiently deliver against project objectives

Nature of Accountability    

• Oversight of complete projects, involvement in multiple practice and projects forums, provides guidance to colleagues, makes sure the work aligns with other projects

Scope and Variability    

• Broad professional assignments and projects across the function, projects may cut across the value chain

Work Characteristics    

• Seasoned work may handle unprecedented projects
• Works requires integrating diverse demands from stakeholders

Solution Design    

• Lead solution design based on the current and potential future areas of concern by engaging with operations, technical and business functions to understand the problem and its root cause and co-crafting the solution

Behavioural Alignment    

Demonstrates the following:
• Creativity, collaboration, sociable and awareness to the ecosystem
• Stewardship, accountability, ability to develop trust, safety conscious and ethical
• Ability to respond quickly to business needs/agility, flexibility, continuous learning, innovation and proven ability to experiment on creative business solutions
• Ability to be inclusive, eagerness for multiple skills, embraces multiple cultures, accepts different approaches and be human-centric/empathetic
• Results oriented, quality driven, excellence, entrepreneurial abilities, efficient and effective

The appointment will be made in accordance with Exxaro’s Employment Equity policy.
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