Job Description

Job Title: Branch Manager, South Africa

Division: Weir Minerals

Location: Middelburg

Onsite, Travel

Purpose of Role: Weir Branch Manager develops and manages sales, operations, and inventory control within the business unit for the purpose of achieving business targets and to grow the Weir business in the Middelburg Regiona, Mpumulanga. The Branch Manager manages operations in order to achieve safety, continuous improvement, customer satisfaction and operating results in a facility dedicated to supporting the mining (phosphate, aggregate, gold) and construction markets.

Why choose Weir:

Be part of a global organization dedicated to building a better future: At Weir, the growing world depends on us. It depends on us constantly reinventing, quickly adapting and continually finding better, faster, more sustainable ways to access the resources it needs to thrive. And it depends on each of us doing the best work of our lives. Itxe2x80x99s a big challenge xe2x80x93 but it is exciting.

An opportunity to grow your own way: Everything moves fast in the dynamic world of Weir. This creates opportunities for us to take on new challenges, explore new areas, learn, progress and excel. Best of all, there is no set path that our people must take. Instead, everyone is given the support and freedom to tailor-make their own career and do the best work of their lives.

Feel empowered to be yourself and belong: Weir is a welcoming, inclusive place, where each individualxe2x80x99s contribution is recognized and all employees are encouraged to innovate, collaborate and be themselves. We continually focus on people and their wellbeing. We believe in fairness and choose to be honest, transparent and authentic in everything we do.

Key Responsibilities:

Leadership: Fosters an engaging work culture by encouraging innovation, teamwork, and personal commitment. Recruits, manages and is responsible for branch resources, e.g. staff, labour, stockholding, transport etc, and ensures they receive necessary training as certifications.

Inventory Management: Ensure stock holding and accuracy is within range for effective customer, special sales activities and market analysis for all product lines. Supports remote inventories, working directly with and supporting Sales and Operations Planning (Supply Chain).

Sales & Customer Service: Customer focused, responsible for managing and providing professional and efficient customer service for region. Play an active role in direct sales activities for acquiring new business through selling new products to diversify product offerings. Provide technical assistance and after sales service to clients.

Financial Management: Responsible for driving and delivering key financial results, expanding core and complementary products and services; maximizing sales year over year while ensuring and maintaining appropriate profit margins. Maximize service labour and profitability growing services and brownfields.

Market & Site Strategy: Develops and implements strategic business plans in support of business growth and develop and implement sales strategy and plan, supporting necessary forecasts. Rationalisation of products and promote new Technology for the territory increase in process engineering services offered to customers transforming the branch to a solution provider.

Safety First: Demonstrate 100% commitment to our zero harm behaviors in support of our drive towards developing a world class safety culture.

Job Knowledge/Education and Qualifications:

Any equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered for candidates that have the ability to perform the objectives above.

Ten or more years of mining 10 yearsxe2x80x99 experience with Mechanical and/or Process equipment

Proven management skills with the ability to optimise team performance and development.

Excellent relationship management skills with the ability to engage, negotiate and manage key stakeholders and customers

Strong communication, interpersonal and influencing skills

Strong analytical skills and problem solving abilities and business acumen

Commercially and financially aware with experience of managing budgets and contract management

Weir Minerals is a leading solutions supplier providing smart, efficient and sustainable original equipment and aftermarket services to the global mining and construction aggregates industry. We work in partnership with our customers to solve their challenges and deliver end-to-end solutions for all minerals processing, dewatering, slurry transportation, crushing and grinding, and sustainable waste management activities.

For additional information about what it is like to work at Weir, please visit our and .

Weir is committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, family responsibility, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, HIV status, conscience, belief, political opinion, culture, language, birth or on any other arbitrary ground.

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