Senior Specialist Sourcing Intelligence

Sasol; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Sasol is a global chemicals and energy company, inviting an experienced professional to deliver sourcing and economic intelligence to guide strategic decisions and procurement performance.

You will consolidate data, model price factors, and build tools to enhance supplier negotiations and price confidence while ensuring alignment with SHE standards and Sasol risk management. This role demands deep knowledge of markets and advanced analytical capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Economics or Econometrics or similar.
• Experience with economic indices and markets.
• Advanced MS Office and Power BI proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Possess widespread understanding of economic and price indices and their sources.
• Analyse and interpret economic data to provide insights that enable decision making.
• Create and develop customized tools that capture and define relevant cost factors to help in understanding costs of procurement activities and their impact on Sasol’s spend base.
• Develop price index models for commodities and commodity groups to offer insights.
• Use predictive analytics to optimise sourcing decision strategies and supplier negotiations for current and future spending.
• Discover and leverage developed and existing best-in-class tools to build up additional details on commodity pricing intelligence.
• Create and maintain dedicated dashboard for sourcing intelligence.
• Stay abreast of the external economic environment and data costing and technology sources identified.
• Keep a pulse on relevant industry macro and micro economic factors influencing costs.
• Establish processes, create, and deploy a sourcing intelligence framework that support activities focusing on knowledge codification and retention.
• Enable the development, formation, and evolution of attributes for should costing methodologies, analysis, and tool creation for commodities of interest.

Skills

Economic analysis

Sourcing intelligence

Price indices

Predictive analytics

Dashboard development

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Economics/Econometrics

Tools

Power BI

SharePoint

MS Office

Job description

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 Requisition ID

13398

Closing Date

28 October 2026

CML: Supply Chain

Location

Sandton

Purpose of Job

Deliver sourcing and economic intelligence to support and inform strategic decision-making and commercial performance. Review, analyse and consolidate relevant economic data and information. Monitor, understand, and communicate relevant cost and pricing factors involved in defining market movements for Sasol Group's procurement spend environment. Factor in local, regional, and global ramifications that impact cost of goods and services in models. Create tools that can be leveraged to enhance supplier negotiations results and price confidence. Subject matter expert on price indices, economic analysis, sourcing intelligence, contract price adjustment and market analysis. The review, analysis, consolidation of information, monitoring, understanding, and communication of all the relevant pricing factors involved in defining market movements for Sasol's procurement is to consider and factor in all local, regional & global ramifications that impact the cost of goods and services; and creating specific tools that can be leveraged to facilitate better supplier negotiation results & price confidence

Key Accountabilities

• Possess widespread understanding of economic and price indices and their sources.
• Analyse and interpret economic data to provide insights that enable decision making.
• Create and develop customized tools that capture and define relevant cost factors to help in understanding costs of procurement activities and their impact on Sasol’s spend base.
• Develop price index models for commodities and commodity groups to offer insights.
• Use predictive analytics to optimise sourcing decision strategies and supplier negotiations for current and future spending.
• Discover and leverage developed and existing best-in-class tools to build up additional details on commodity pricing intelligence.
• Create and maintain dedicated dashboard for sourcing intelligence.
• Stay abreast of the external economic environment and data costing and technology sources identified.
• Keep a pulse on relevant industry macro and micro economic factors influencing costs.
• Establish processes, create, and deploy a sourcing intelligence framework that support activities focusing on knowledge codification and retention.
• Enable the development, formation, and evolution of attributes for "should costing" methodologies, analysis, and tool creation for commodities of interest.
• Apply evidence-based SHE practices in alignment with set standards for safe operations.
• Implement Sasol Group's risk philosophy and enterprise risk management framework.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders to provide directions on should-costing and develop content that provides appropriate level of information transparency.
• Continuously improve own skills and knowledge. Complete, implement, and track personal development plan to attain personal performance goals.

Formal Education

University Bachelor's Degree (preferably B.Com Economics/Econometrics).

Postgraduate relevant qualification will be an advantage.

Min Experience

At least 9 years’ experience working in an economic environment.

• Relevant experience with economic indices.
• Deep understanding of global and local commodity markets and the impacts on procurement and supply chains
• Advanced MS Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint) competency,
• Thorough understanding of SharePoint and Power BI.
• Experience using AI tools to improve sourcing intelligence and reporting

Required Personal And Professional Skills

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• BC_Optimizes Work Processes
• BC_Business Insight
• BC_Action Oriented
• BC_Ensures Accountability

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.

Our automated process is designed to efficiently assess a large volume of applications. Should you not hear from us within 60 days of the advert closing then kindly consider your application unsuccessful. Thank you once-more for your interest in Sasol as your employer of choice, and we wish you all the best with your career aspirations and future applications with us.