Senior Manager Technical Advisory Services

Job Req ID

10900

Closing Date

19 December 2025

OME

Location

Sandton 

Purpose of Job

Lead a multi-functional team responsible for product value optimization, product customer and market support, technical marketing, product quality governance and which provides support to operations, product and market technical development, product solution and energy solution development for all products manufactured, supplied and traded by Energy, taking into consideration South Africa and Sasol capabilities and requirements.

Key Accountabilities

• Development of the Energy product value optimisation and quality game plan to direct and coordinate Technical Service portfolio across the Energy value chain, in response to regulatory, customer and market requirements.
• Develop and/or direct customer facing value proposition through technical partnership development with customers to define unique product and service solutions and value propositions.
• Accountable for product quality governance, assurance and improvement for Energy– Developing and governing processes throughout the value chain to ensure high quality of product according to performance promise in the market and customer value proposition.
• Ensuring an integrated approach across the value chain from a product optimisation perspective, from operations through to final customer application.
• Tracking customer requirements from a product, service and solution perspective to provide Energy with timely and actionable intelligence e.g. tracking the development of integrated energy solutions, total cost of ownership reduction and define threat and/or opportunity to Energy product and service offerings.
• Provide technical direction and approvals on the sourcing and or routings of feedstocks and or additives through the understanding of the relationship between feedstocks, production, properties, specifications and performance of synthetic fuels and application thereof.
• Ensure effective and adequate Sasol representation at all South Africa government and industry bodies to ensure that product specifications and standards are influenced with due consideration to customer and equipment requirement while understanding South Africa and Sasol capabilities and requirements.
• Strategic visioning and development of long-term product specification roadmap with AR&T for all Energy products to guide product value proposition development as well as upstream and downstream investments.
• Develop and execute product roadmaps with Applied R&T to update the product range in line with the customer requirements, marketing strategy and provide margin upliftment and cost optimisation.
• Unpacking sustainable drivers for products & develop appropriate solutions including the development and review of product emission improvement strategies, to enable product sustainability.

• Identify risk from a product stewardship perspective through understanding the impact of product properties, application and compatibility in the overall value chain, cradle to grave, while enabling consumer protection according to local legislation framework.
• Influence and negotiate national specification to ensure marketability of Energy products through understanding of the product landscape, manufacturing capabilities and regulatory trends and/or requirements.
• Identifying and developing new products, applications and or markets for Energy products through market requirement and operations capability/constraint understanding.
• Provide product governance, assurance and direction for the optimization and/or design of operation processes, including blending and logistics to produce molecules according to markets requirements.
• Building relationships with key stakeholders and regulatory bodies to ensure Energy is well position from a product value and quality perspective for the short to medium term.
• Optimisation and cost reduction through optimized supply chain operations from a product perspective, while enabling product fungibility.

Formal Education

3-4 years University Degree

Post Graduate Masters Degree advantageous

Working Experience

Required Personal and Professional Skills