Sourcing Intelligence Lead: Economic & Pricing Analytics

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 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.