Executive, Business Services

The Kamoa Copper Mine is a joint venture between Ivanhoe Mines (39.6%), Zijin Mining Group (39.6%), Crystal River Global Limited (0.8%) and the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (20%). It's a very large, near-surface, flat-lying, stratiform copper deposit with adjacent prospective exploration areas within the Central African Copperbelt, at approximately 25 kilometres west of the town of Kolwezi and about 270 kilometres west of the provincial capital of Lubumbashi.

Play your part in our team succeeding……

To define and direct Kamoa Copper's integrated Business Services agenda, providing organization-wide support services that enable safe, efficient, resilient and sustainable operations. The role is accountable for the strategic direction, governance, integration and performance of Strategic Human Resources, Organizational Effectiveness and Transformation, Training and Development, Employee Services, HRIS, Camp and Facilities, and Communications. The Executive acts as a strategic business partner to the Executive Director and the rest of the Senior EXCO, ensuring that workforce, service delivery, systems, facilities, communications and organizational capability are aligned to Kamoa's operational and growth priorities.

Must have a bachelor’s degree and or a Master’s degree in business administration, or related field preferred.

15+ years of progressive leadership experience across business services, corporate services, HR / people operations or other multidisciplinary support functions, including substantial senior leadership accountability.

• Demonstrated experience leading multiple support-service disciplines in a complex, asset-intensive or safety-critical environment; mining experience strongly preferred.
• Proven strategic HR leadership covering workforce planning, organization design, talent / succession, localization, reward and labour-risk governance.
• Track record of improving service delivery through operating-model redesign, governance, systems, process improvement, digitisation and measurable SLAs.
• Experience managing significant budgets, service providers, contractors and cross-functional transformation programmes.

Experience in multicultural and employee-relations-intensive environments and in senior engagement with executives, government, unions / employee representatives and external partners

English fluency required; French strongly advantageous for the DRC operating context

Technical Skills should include: Strategic and commercial judgement

• Enterprise service design and SLA management
• Executive workforce planning and labour-cost modelling
• Business-case development, budgeting and financial management
• Project and programme governance
• Change leadership and organizational effectiveness
• Negotiation, mediation and senior stakeholder management
• Data-driven decision making, dashboards and executive reporting
• Risk management, control design and assurance
• Coaching and leadership of diverse functional teams
• Advanced digital literacy and presentation capabilities

Role Specific Knowledge: Kamoa and Group strategy, operating model and mining business context

• Integrated Business Services operating models and service management
• Strategic Human Resources, workforce planning, organization design, talent, succession, localization and reward governance
• Employee / industrial relations and DRC labour environment
• Business process design, continuous improvement and change management
• HRIS / business systems, data governance, analytics and digital enablement
• Camp, facilities, employee services and contractor-management principles
• Corporate communications, stakeholder and reputational-risk management
• Corporate governance, risk, compliance, ethics and DOA frameworks
• Commercial, budgeting and supplier / contract management
• Reward governance, payroll controls, people-data governance and executive workforce reporting

Personal Competencies should include

• Enterprise and commercial judgement
• Strategic thinking and systems perspective
• Problem solving and analytical discipline
• Executive influence, negotiation and diplomacy
• Interpersonal maturity and cultural intelligence
• Integrity, confidentiality and objectivity
• Risk awareness and decisiveness
• Change leadership and organizational agility
• Customer and service orientation
• Drive and results orientation

Collaborative leadership

• Communication and executive presence
• Financial and business acumen

Data-led decision making

• Talent development and coaching
• Flexibility and adaptability under pressure
• Your Key Performance Activities will include but not limited to:

Process: Lead, manage and coordinate a world class Business Services portfolio

• Business Services Strategy and Executive Leadership
• Strategic Human Resources and Organizational Capability
• Integrated Business Services Delivery
• HRIS, Business Systems, Digital Enablement and Data
• Communications, Culture and Change
• Governance, Risk and Service Resilience

Stakeholder management

Ensure optimised customer experience and service throughout the value chain-

People

Lead, build and maintain a capable, high performing team

Finance

Ensure financial integrity of area of responsibility

Manage Transformation and enable seamless Change and Cultural integration-

HSEQ: Implement the HSEQ plan for the Business area

Reporting, Governance and Quality Assurance

The Finer Detail

When applying, please submit a PDF version of your CV together with certified copies (certification within a 3-month period) of your ID/passport, drivers' license and qualifications.

Should you not hear from us within 30 days of the closing date please consider your application unsuccessful