Job Description

Job highlights

Full time
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Accounting (Industrial Assets)

Job ID

R200001366

Closing date

12/12/2025

Last Updated

26/11/2025Join Glencore as a senior SAP Project Manager, responsible for hands-on project delivery or oversight of third-party management, including preparation of and updates to detailed plans (project tasks, resource plans and budgets), OCM activities to prepare stakeholders for changes via communication and enablement, scope management, escalation and closure. SAP S/4 HANA and other software applications, as assigned.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

Project Sponsors
Business Owners and SMEs
Functional and Technical Support Resources (internal and external)
Suppliers
Auditors

PRIMARY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Responsible for project management process from implementation definition, planning, tracking, and managing the project, identifying key resources and providing the direction they require, meeting project objectives on time, in budget.
Managing the project scope, critical milestones and risk.
Contribute towards the development of a strategy for the Division and ensure alignment of this strategy with the Group Strategic Objectives.
Ensure the deployment of proper financial controls to manage the budget, including change orders.
Ensure productivity is measured effectively against objectives.
Manage and ensure promotion of continuous improvement activities.
Manage Project operations effectively to deliver services within timelines and prescribed quality through effective resource management.
Manage compliance, ensuring that all project employees adhere to Project Planning and Scheduling protocols.
Advise and oversee all Project Planning and Scheduling related change programs.
Provide strategic feedback on the status of Project Planning and Scheduling within the business.
Monitor and oversee adherence to project methodology practices, SAP Best practice and provide team coaching, evaluate the performance of team members and reinforce the enterprise knowledge management through the collection and communication of lessons learned.
Develop and deploy effective change management programs, promoting and validating successful communication and end user enablement
Identify and mitigate internal systems and procedural barriers to enhance project management services.
Convene, chair, and attend meetings and present project performance and business-related information to relevant stakeholders when required.

QUALIFICATIONS:

IT Degree or Diploma equivalent in related discipline
PMP/Agile (preferred)
SAP functional/technical training
SAP S4 and implementation methodology

WORK EXPERIENCE:

10 years SAP experience
4 full lifecycle S/4 HANA implementations
8 years of functional experience (MM, PM or FICO)
Global SAP template development and deployment
Mining industry experience and advantage

COMPETENCIES:

Multi-tasking and excellent management of time and priorities.
Demonstrated, well-developed problem-solving skills.
Pro- active, committed and highly motivated.
High level of attention to detail and analytic skills combined with critical thinking.
Strong customer focus and ability to work in a global, demanding environment.
Ability to work under pressure of tight project deadlines.
A team player and strong leader.
Strong stakeholder relationship skills with a demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and written.
Fluency in English.
French and Spanish language skills are an advantage.

Please apply on the Careers Portal: Applications Close:

https://www.glencore.com/careers/career-opportunities 12 December 2025
This vacancy will be filled in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Glencore. By applying for this position, you consent to Glencore collecting, storing, using, destroying, and processing in any other manner personal information for purposes of attending to this advertisement, and/ or all matters relating thereto, including the disclosure to third parties of such personal information for purposes of confirming such personal information. In the event you do not hear from the Company within 21 days after the closing date of applications, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful. The CVs of unsuccessful candidates will not be returned.

Who we are

Glencore is one of the world's largest global diversified natural resource companies and a major producer and marketer of more than 60 commodities that advance everyday life. Through a network of assets, customers and suppliers that spans the globe, we produce, process, recycle, source, market and distribute the commodities that support decarbonisation while meeting the energy needs of today.
With over 150,000 employees and contractors and a strong footprint in over 35 countries in both established and emerging regions for natural resources, our marketing and industrial activities are supported by a global network of more than 50 offices.
Glencore's customers are industrial consumers, such as those in the automotive, steel, power generation, battery manufacturing and oil sectors. We also provide financing, logistics and other services to producers and consumers of commodities.
Glencore is proud to be a member of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights and the International Council on Mining and Metals. We are an active participant in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.
We will support the global effort to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement through our efforts to decarbonise our own operational footprint. We believe that we should take a holistic approach and have considered our commitment through the lens of our global industrial emissions. Against a restated 2019 baseline, we are targeting to reduce our Scope 1, 2 and 3 industrial emissions by 15% by the end of 2026, 25% by the end of 2030, 50% by the end of 2035 and we have an ambition to achieve net zero industrial emissions by the end of 2050, subject to a supportive policy environment. For more information see our 2024-2026 Climate Action Transition Plan and the About our emissions calculation and reporting section in our 2023 Annual Report, available on our website at glencore.com/publications.
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