Team Lead Product Specialists Separations

FLSmidth; Roodepoort; On-site; ZAR 900 000 - 1 200 000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology company is seeking a Team Lead - Separations Product specialists located in Roodepoort, Gauteng, South Africa. In this role, you'll lead a team to optimize mineral processing operations, drive market growth, and ensure high-quality customer experiences. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in mineral processing, proven business development experience, and effective leadership skills to enhance team performance. The organization values innovation and aims to tackle climate change through technological advancements.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years within the mineral processing industry, mainly in comminution and extractive metallurgy.
• At least 5 years of experience in a business development role with proven success in growing the business.
• Demonstrated ability in process information gathering and analysis for optimization plans.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day activities of Product Specialists in your team.
• Conduct site audits and provide system optimization studies for key clients.
• Drive business development planning and attend relevant industry functions.

Skills

Business development skills

Leadership skills

Process optimization

Sales skills

Excellent communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline

Tools

ERP database systems (Epicor, SAP)

Job description

We believe with our existing technologies and the evolution of, by our innovative and market leading capability throughout our organisation, we can develop the technology of the future and gain the know-how to make that difference, tackling the climate challenge. It’s a big responsibility, and we have committed to do it. We have launched our ambition, MissionZero – enabling our customers to move towards zero emissions in mining and cement.

We need your skills, curiosity and drive for change to fulfil our goal. Together, we enable our customers to produce the materials needed for a better future.

As the Team Lead - Separations Product specialists, your role is to increase market share in traditional markets, identify and grow new market opportunities and to significantly grow the revenue base for the Separations service line offering in the market as well as directing your team in their day to day activities. Using your expertise in mineral processing, business development and selling, and leadership skills, you will strive to add value to our customers by continuously improving plant efficiency, availability and recoveries by leading a team of regional specialists through proactive auditing of customer sites, processes and equipment.

Job Scope

• Utilising your product and process expertise, undertake site audits, and provide debottlenecking and system optimisation studies, working with key clients to unlock their processes utilising FLSmidth technologies
• Lead the development and implementation of the region profitable growth strategy over the product aftermarket lifecycle, with the support of the Services Group and Region.
• Lead the day to day activities of the Product Specialists in your team
• Strive for continuous improvements in our ‘Safety First ‘and Quality-focused culture. Grow and develop, engage and motivate a small, team (Regional Service Line Managers) to continually increase customer satisfaction. The clear focus is thorough execution to deliver results.
• Be responsible for Business Development Planning and attend industry functions, such as association events and conferences, and provide feedback and information on market and creative trends to the business, for strategic work effort alignment.
• Support and where required, travel with sales to customer sites and engineering firms to troubleshoot, develop partnerships, consult on system design, support start-up’s as necessary, and ensure proper aftermarket support is in place including warranty/quality issue resolution, for after sales support.
• Provides win/lost and product service line P&L reporting and customer feedback to Global Service Line Managers including region market intelligence, competition activities, and suggested product offering and design improvement opportunities.
• Enhance the potential of existing products by championing more effective production processes. Provide the end-to-end solution to make this change and engage all internal /external stakeholders, develop budgets and project manage the outcome within a set timeframe.

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline or proven technical knowledge equivalent to a relevant discipline.
• At least 10 years within the mineral processing industry. With the majority of this working in the comminution and extractive metallurgy fields with specialty in Sedimentation, and flotation required.
• Experience across multiple mineral processing flowsheets (copper, nickel, gold, coal, iron ore etc)
• At least 5 years’ experience in a business development role with a demonstrable success in growing the business through a strategic approach in building long term relationships.
• Highly adept to process information gathering, sorting and analysis – deriving optimisation plans and delivering value to clients
• Demonstrated business acumen to develop realistic business plans with stretch targets and the clear plan to reach those targets.
• Highly developed sales skills with the ability to close deals and also willingness to support local sales team, and provide broader leadership upon behalf of the FLSmidth Service business Line Leadership Team.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver in a fast-paced, changing environment while maintaining high attention to detail and astute, agile responses to regional and customer needs/trends.
• Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills in order to work with customers, contractors and other personnel on a daily basis.
• Experienced utilizing ERP database systems is desired ie. Epicor, SAP or similar systems.