Job Description

The purpose of the Underground Manager is to continuously improve and optimise blasting products, services and processes to underground customers that meet (or exceed) their needs and enhances the relationships with them to ensure that BME will be their first-choice blasting solutions provider. To drive the strategy of operational excellence and continual process improvement.
Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Mining or equivalent

Advantageous Requirements
Qualification / Professional Membership

• Mine Overseers Ticket
• Explosives related Qualification

Work Experience

• 3 years demonstrated business development experience in a mining/explosive environment

Experience

• 10 years demonstrated experience in underground operational / explosives mining environment
• 5 years' demonstrated experience in underground technology innovation and product management
• 5 years demonstrated experience in people management

DutiesContinuous market aligned and financially viable new products, services, technologies and equipment

• Market trends research to identify market trends that will enable the development of new product, technology, service and equipment offerings to the market thereby contributing to the future sustainability of the business.
• Develop and drive the appropriate live market strategies to ensure traction.
• To research and develop UG equipment to increase BME's UG offerings to market and working closely with technical services, sales, marketing in support of BMEs overall digital/technological strategy and goals.
• To manage the budget for technologies and innovation, and prepare revenue forecasts and progress reports, and to evaluate all financial aspects of the technologies and innovations (revenue, cost, margins), expenditures, research and development appropriations, or return-on-investment and profit-loss projections.
• To manage the engineering component of UG equipment during the idea creation and development phase to ensure aligned offering for commercialization
• To recommend new innovations and technologies to market by appraising new ideas and/or products or packaging changes, analysing proposed requirements and development programs; preparing return-on-investment analyses; establishing time schedules with software developers, engineering and production, and defining the core positioning and messaging for the new innovations and technologies. (B/P)

Secured customer loyalty through responsive and continuously improved customer value-adding solutions

• Identify customer requirements to enable the appropriate development of and/or improvement of existing solutions to ensure new and continued business for BME.
• Identify customer requirements, develop and implement a product strategy that includes product definition, pricing, promotional tactics and roadmaps to ensure new and continued business for BME.

Prevented/mitigated customer and company risks

• To ensures that all the requirements of the Mine Health and Safety Act, OHS Act, Explosives Act and statutory requirements within the department/remit thus ensuring effective management of SHERQ and adherence to stipulated disciplines for continuous improvement of occupational Safety, Health, Environment, Risk and Quality that impact on any organisation.
• To define, development and implement policies, procedures and processes to ensure process excellence and continual process improvement

Achieved sales targets

• Identify customer requirements, develop and implement a product strategy that includes product definition, pricing, promotional tactics and roadmaps to ensure new and continued business for BME.
• Drive sales of the underground business: trading, product services etc.
• To develop and implement annual business plans thus ensuring efficient and effective management of finances, employees and assets
• To ensure efficient and effective management of finances in such a manner as to accomplish the strategic objectives of the organisation
• To define, development and implement policies, procedures and processes to ensure process excellence and continual process improvement

Focused, performance and delivery enabled unit

• To effectively manage stock to obtain and preserve a suitable assortment of goods while also keeping track of all orders, shipping and handling, and other related costs.
• To manage all aspects of human capital through the HR value chain and in accordance to legislation and manage employee development.
• To Capacitate the business effectively to ensure superior service levels.
• To effectively manage the maintenance of company equipment, vehicles and all other assets in line with company policy and procedures.

Job CompetenciesJob Related Skills

• Ms Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)
• Sound people management experience essential
• Mechanical insight
• Quality & Project Management Skills
• Presentation skills
• ERP
• Technical skill IRO mining explosives and services

General Competency Requirements: * Business Acumen - Essential

• Conflict Management - Essential
• Customer Focus - Essential
• Timely Decision Making - Essential
• Developing Direct Reports and Others - Essential
• Functional Technical Skills - Mastery
• Innovation Management - Essential
• Integrity and Trust - Essential
• Motivating Others - Essential
• Problem Solving - Essential

GeneralKey Dimensions
Role impacts:

• Revenue Generation and profit margin
• Operations
• Customer satisfaction
• Operations Management
• Innovation
• Business Development & Growth
• Driving the UG strategy

Key Relationships

• Executive Team
• Senior Management/Management/Country Managers
• Customers
• Support Teams
• Operations
• Production
• Engineering
• Any other stakeholder as may be deemed important and relevant from time to time

Omnia Holdings