Specialist Strategic Tracking and Reporting

Sasol; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Sasol, a leading global chemicals and energy company, seeks a Senior Strategy & Sustainability analyst in Sandton. You will design, develop and maintain models, dashboards and decision-support tools to enable strategic planning and portfolio optimisation.

A 3-4 year degree and about six years of experience are expected, with strong data and reporting skills. You will collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation, drive digitalisation of reporting, and contribute to governance and

Qualifications

• 3-4 year university degree is required.
• 6 years of working experience is required.
• Strong analytical and portfolio reporting capabilities are essential.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain analytical models, forecasting tools and decision-support capabilities for strategy planning and portfolio management.
• Provide portfolio analytics, strategic insights and decision-support to enable leadership decisions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define reporting requirements and drive dashboards and tracking tools.

Skills

Analytics

Collaboration

Continuous Process Improvement

Critical reasoning

Data Management

Execution capability

Problem Solving

Project Coordination

Reporting

Self-Mastery

Verbal Communications

Written Communications

Education

3-4 year relevant university degree

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

13107

Closing Date

18 September 2026

OME

BST: Strategy & Sustainability

Location

Sandton

Purpose of Job

Strategic Value Delivery (SVD) delivery relies on robust reporting, analytical models, tracking systems, and decision-support tools to enable effective management insight and decision-making. This role is a key enabler of these capabilities, providing the design, development, and maintenance of models, decision support capabilities and strategic tracking and reporting systems for SVD, the broader Strategy and Sustainability team and other Business Building, Strategy and Technology (BBST) teams. Provides portfolio analytics, strategic insights and decision-support capabilities that enable effective strategic planning, portfolio prioritisation, resource allocation and performance management across Strategy & Sustainability and BBST. Supports strategic initiative roadmap development and status tracking and plays a key role in consolidating business reporting and portfolio assessment. Drives innovation for digitisation within the Strategic Value Delivery and broader Strategy and Sustainability team. Provides analytical support and opportunity assessment for programmes managed by SVD.

Key Accountabilities

Portfolio Reporting, Tracking & Digitalisation

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define reporting requirements and serve as the primary interface with the digitisation team to drive reporting, tracking and continuous improvement capabilities.
• Lead the development and maintenance of strategic initiative roadmap tracking dashboards, KPIs and performance management tools, leveraging enterprise systems and data visualisation platforms (e.g. Azure, Power BI) to provide portfolio visibility, performance insights and decision support.
• Lead the process of coordinating, collating and compiling relevant data for the strategic initiatives and their roadmaps and proof points as input into corporate reporting – develop appropriate methods and processes to ensure auditable inputs and results verification.
  
  
  

Stakeholder Engagement & Capability Building

• Facilitate discussions/workshops with stakeholders across the impacted universe to gather inputs, align requirements and support the development, rollout and adoption of portfolio reporting and dashboard tools.
• Be the subject matter expert for portfolio reporting and dashboard tools, providing guidance, training and user support across the organisation, while establishing appropriate processes and controls to ensure auditable inputs, data integrity and results verification.
  
  
  

Portfolio Analytics and Decision Support

• Develop and maintain analytical models, forecasting tools and decision-support capabilities to support strategic planning, portfolio prioritisation, resource allocation, portfolio optimisation and business decision-making. Generate portfolio insights through data analysis, scenario assessment and performance evaluation to support leadership decision-making and delivery of strategic objectives.
  
  
  

Portfolio Assessment & Governance

• Support the Strategic Value Delivery team with portfolio assessment, portfolio management and governance processes
• Support development of business and governance processes to enable delivery of the strategic ambition, roadmaps and targets.
  
  
  

Portfolio Documentation & Knowledge Management

• Produce and maintain key portfolio documents, reports and governance artefacts, ensuring high-quality communication of portfolio performance, insights and decisions.
• Apply and promote document management and control best practices across Strategic Value Delivery,
• Coach and develop team members to strengthen reporting, analytical and portfolio management capabilities.
  
  
  

Formal Education

• 3-4 year relevant university degree
  
  
  

Working Experience

• 6 years
  
  
  

Required Personal/Professional Skills

Analytics: The systematic computational analysis of data or statistics

Collaboration: The action of working with someone to produce something

Continuous Process Improvement: The methodology followed for increasing the effectiveness and/or efficiency of a business process, often through automation.

Critical reasoning: The action of critically thinking about something in a logical, sensible way and taking all factors into consideration.

Data Management: Knowledgeable of the theory, purpose, architecture and design of the management, administration and relationships of the organization's data.

Execution capability: The underlying ability to execute a strategy/project or day to day work

Problem Solving: Is a step-by-step process of defining a problem, searching for information, and testing a series of solutions until the problem is solved. In involves critical thinking, analysis and persistence.

Project Coordination: Knowledge and experience with Project Coordination is planning, organizing, and managing tasks and resources to accomplish a objective this include an administrative, liaison and support role that supports one or more projects. Usually used during smaller non-capital projects.

Reporting: The ability to access information from databases, forms, and other sources, and prepare reports according to requirements.

Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting

Verbal Communications: Any exchange of words, either written or spoken, used to transmit information

Written Communications: Sending of messages, orders or instructions in writing through letters, circulars, manuals, reports, telegrams, office memos, bulletins, etc. It is a formal method of communication and is less flexible

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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