Cluster Engineering CAPEX Lead – Unilever
Function: Supply Chain • Scope: Local • Location: 61 Katherine Street, La Lucia Ridge • Terms & Conditions: Full time
Job Purpose
This role leads the delivery of the Southern Africa cluster capex program with a strong emphasis on financial governance, forecasting accuracy, digital transformation and capability building. It integrates finance expertise into engineering operations, ensuring strategic alignment, value‑driven decision‑making and operational excellence across the Southern Africa cluster.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead capital planning and governance, ensuring adherence to accounting policies and driving net productivity.
* Challenge and influence capex decisions to ensure financial prudence and strategic alignment.
* Develop and maintain forecasting tools and dashboards (e.g., Power BI, Jazz), driving digital transformation through system integration and AI‑enabled decision support.
* Act as Marlin/Jazz system lead for Southern Africa, providing user support, training, access control and maintaining the Schedule of Authority (SOA).
* Deliver regular training sessions on CEPs, DCFs and governance for engineers and finance teams to embed governance and forecasting principles.
* Lead post‑investment reviews and savings tracking to ensure capital efficiency.
* Support succession planning through structured handover modules and mentoring.
Output / Performance Metrics
* OTIF delivery of Project Reports and Performance Reports.
* Delivery of Cluster Eng. Metrics for Capex.
* Annual Capex delivery vs. target.
* Net Productivity bias.
* Forecast accuracy and governance compliance.
* Number of training sessions delivered, and feedback received.
* Engagement in One Engineering Community and cross‑functional initiatives.
Experience & Preferred Qualifications
* Engineering degree or finance degree.
Skills
* Strong attention to detail.
* High bias for action, responsibility and integrity.
Leadership & Behaviours
* Personal Excellence & Emotional Intelligence
Consistently striving to perform at their best, maintaining wellbeing, resilience, and high personal standards, while demonstrating empathy and emotional intelligence.
* Collaboration & Influence
Facilitating productive engagement within and outside the organization, inspiring and motivating others, and fostering a results‑driven environment.
* Accountability & Ownership
Taking responsibility for outcomes, making data‑driven decisions, and showing initiative without the need for close supervision.
* Agility & Continuous Improvement
Embracing agile principles, iterative learning, and prioritising customer value, while actively contributing to building an agile culture.
* Purpose‑Driven Leadership
Acting with humility, guided by a strong sense of purpose aligned with Unilever’s mission of sustainable living, and viewing leadership as service to others.
* Employee Advocacy
Encouraging employees to champion company values and initiatives, understanding the importance of advocacy and managing external perceptions.
* Resilience & Problem‑Solving
Demonstrating adaptability, resilience, and the ability to navigate ambiguity and solve problems independently.
Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviours
* Care deeply: caring deeply about how consumers experience our brands, our people’s growth and development, and our impact on the planet.
* Focus on what counts: setting clear and stretching goals, generating intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed.
* Stay three steps ahead: thinking boldly and creatively to make breakthroughs, anticipating consumer needs and external trends, and using an iterative test‑do‑learn approach.
* Deliver with excellence: taking personal ownership and accountability for execution and results, always finding a way to deliver on commitments.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Unilever is an equal opportunities employer and committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. We invite applications from all candidates representing diversity of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. When appointing potential candidates, the South African Employment Equity and Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Legislation will be considered.
We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. If you are applying as a foreign national, you may be requested to provide supporting documents.
This is an office‑based role in Johannesburg OR Durban and requires 100% of time attendance on site.
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