Senior Manager Stakeholder Relations Full-Time

About the role /Purpose of the job

Take the lead in building and fostering stakeholder relationships, identifying threats, opportunities and enabling the growth of Sasol’s businesses in Mozambique. Enhance Sasol’s business and corporate citizenship reputation, and develop a reputation management strategy and system to enable the “Social license to operate and grow”. Must influence and help shape the country strategy based on Sasol mandate in country and assist in the execution and ensure that Sasol is perceived as a good corporate citizen. Understand the Mozambique structures and OME structures, and have the ability to integrate stakeholder engagement matters and optimise across the OMEs and with Mozambican entities. Provide oversight delivery of the CSR program. Drive E&PI reputation management in regions of operation.

Functional outputs

• Strategic thought leadership;
• Developing and implementing strategy;
• Stakeholder Management;
• Managing governance and legal compliance;
• Cross functional/business integration & balancing;
• Market/industry insight & integration;
• Value Chain integration & Optimization;
• Business acumen;
• Ability to communicate upwards and downwards in an organization;
• Demonstrates initiative and persuasiveness;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Job requirements

• Manage a multi-discipline project team in a matrix environment;
• Project management;
• Strong Leadership Capability;
• Knowledge and understanding of Mozambican customs and culture.

 Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and or a relevant Master’s Degree;
• More than 10 years relevant experience: Country knowledge and the local fiduciary requirements, as well as extensive Stakeholder relations experience at senior Government officials level.

Experience:

• Experience in building partnerships & maintaining relationships with external stakeholders, including governmental institutions

Key competencies required

Leadership

• Inspirational – Authentically and inclusively engages people to follow; leads culture transformation;
• Builds Talent – Builds capability and leverages diversity for competitive advantage;
• Collaborative – Builds teams and creates synergies through working across boundaries;
• Self-Mastery – Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting;
• Results-focused – Achieves results through others and holds them accountable;
• Sets Direction – Provides vision and direction aligned to One Sasol;
• Drives Competitive Edge – Leads organizational change, innovation and sustainability;
• Business-focused – Demonstrates commercial acumen, a global mind-set and exercises sound judgment;
• Influential – Persuades and influences stakeholders; builds relationships and partnerships for win-win outcomes.