Head Enterprise Risk Management
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Location: Sandton
Company: Sasol
Sasol is a global integrated chemicals and energy company with a 75-year heritage. Through our talented people, we use our expertise and selected technologies to safely and sustainably source, manufacture and market chemical and energy products globally. When you join Team Sasol, you are joining a company that puts people at the center of everything we do.
Sasol invests in its employees along every stage of the career path and offers development opportunities to help you cultivate your career in a culture that embraces diversity and inclusion.
Job Req ID
10569
Closing Date
18 November 2025
OME
Risk & SHE
Location
Sandton
Purpose of Job
Develop and deliver an integrated value chain enterprise risk management approach to identify and mitigate critical enterprise risks.
Key Accountabilities
• Define and manage the Group’s approach to risk management, risks appetite and the risk framework.
• Manage and deliver the risk management plan as set by the Sasol Limited Board.
• Review and update the board risk management plan, Group ERM game plan, and work plans for Group Management and Board Committees.
• Lead the process to review and update the Group top risk themes and the Group risk appetite and tolerance.
• Develop combined assurance landscapes and plans for the Group top risk themes. Provide Group Assurance with risk-based assurance requirements for the Group top risk themes.
• Prepare reports for the Sasol Limited Board and Group Management on high level risk identified and progress against the risk management plan.
• Develop, update and review the risk portion of the Group annual integrated report.
• Develop and monitor an integrated view of the risks across the Sasol portfolio in response to emerging risks across the organisation.
• Develop a risk aggregation methodology and risk metrics to measure total risk exposure and provide a whole picture of risk across the Group.
• Manage the Group risk reporting process, approach, standards, systems, risk breakdown structure and procedures.
• Work with Group Legal and Group Finance to review and disclose material risk factors in alignment to SEC requirements.
• Work with Businesses Units and Corporate Centre functions to ensure risk mitigation strategies for identified risks are developed and implemented.
Formal Education
Post Graduate Honours Degree, or equivalent Bachelors degree.
Working Experience
Competencies
Business Acumen:An intuitive and applicable understanding of how a company or unit makes money. Displays a thorough understanding of what drives profitability. Maintains a market-focused approach to business. Keeps an overall big picture understanding of the business and its interrelationships enabling a person to make better business decisions. The ability to make good business judgments and quick decisions in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome.
Business Leadership: Demonstrates commercial acumen, a global mind-set and exercises sound judgement. Achieves results through others and holds them accountable.
Critical reasoning: The action of critically thinking about something in a logical, sensible way and taking all factors into consideration.
Decision Making: Ability to know when and what decisions should be made and to make several decisions simultaneously in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment. Leading change: Requires creating experiences for people that reveal new possibilities, while uniting them to drive strategies that harness the resources to win in the marketplace. It requires optimizing the culture of an organization while making investments to drive business growth – simultaneously
Partnership Leadership: Persuades and influences stakeholders; builds relationships and partnerships for win-win outcomes. Builds teams and creates synergies through working across boundaries. People Leadership: Authentically and inclusively engages people to follow; leads culture transformation. Builds capability and leverages diversity for competitive advantage.
Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting Strategic Leadership: Provides vision and direction aligned to One Sasol. Leads organisational change, innovation and sustainability.
Strategy: The direction and scope of an organization or subject (e.g., information technology, transportation, finance, marketing, product) over the long-term which achieves advantage for the organization through its configuration of resources within a challenging environment, to meet the needs of markets and to fulfil stakeholder expectations.
Sasol is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Inspired by our Purpose of “Innovating for a better world”, Sasol acknowledges that diversity is intrinsic to the fabric of our organisation and is the key to our growth and success. Sasol is committed to the full inclusion of all suitably qualified individuals. Preference will be given to applicants from designated groups and people with disabilities according to Sasol’s Employment Equity Plan. This includes reasonable accommodation to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
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