Senior Specialist - Incubation & Assessment

Sasol is a global integrated chemicals and energy company with a 75-year heritage. Through our talented people, we use our expertise and selected technologies to safely and sustainably source, manufacture and market chemical and energy products globally. When you join Team Sasol, you are joining a company that puts people at the center of everything we do.

Sasol invests in its employees along every stage of the career path and offers development opportunities to help you cultivate your career in a culture that embraces diversity and inclusion.

Job

Requisition
11454

Closing Date
25 February 2026

OME
BST:
Strategy & Sustainability

Location
Sandton

Purpose of Job
To identify, evaluate, and progress innovation-driven business opportunities aligned with Sasol’s strategy and future value agenda. The role ensures robust assessment of exploratory and emerging opportunities, enabling the creation of a balanced opportunity funnel that delivers sustainable growth, diversification, and transformation of Sasol’s innovation portfolio. Building partnerships and collaborative networks to accelerate co-development and implementation is a critical requirement.

• Conduct structured opportunity assessments to ensure strategic fit, value potential, and technical/market feasibility in line with Sasol’s Innovation strategy and incubation framework.
• Drive the BBST opportunity funnel development, ensuring coverage, diversification, and progression from early ideation and incubation to emerging business phases.
• Translate market, technology, and regulatory insights into innovation-driven business opportunities, leveraging partnerships, licensing, and external ecosystems.
• Collaborate with internal partners, including but not limited to stakeholders in Strategy & Sustainability, Business Building, and Research & Technology to incubate and mature opportunities up to Gate 1.
• Apply opportunity framing tools, value assurance reviews, and portfolio review processes to ensure consistent evaluation and decision-making.
• Provide clear recommendations to optimise portfolio health and accelerate delivery of Future Sasol.
• Drive quantitative and qualitative assessments with BBST teams, including EBITDA potential, capital requirements, risk assessment, sector/geographic diversity, and alignment with emission reduction and sustainability goals.
• Ensure knowledge sharing and capability building across the innovation network and communities of practice within business.
• Develop and maintain external intelligence networks to benchmark best practices and identify innovative pathways for growth.
• Foster collaboration across functions and maintain visible alignment with Sasol’s priorities (energy transition, sustainable fuels and chemicals, power business development, decoupling from oil dependency, etc.).
• Support the coordination and expansion of Sasol’s innovation ecosystem, including partnerships with startups, academia, research institutions, and industry consortia.
• Manage an internal innovation network of champions and cross-functional teams to drive knowledge sharing, collaboration, and innovation culture across the organisation.
• Identify and engage with external partners and platforms to co-develop solutions, accelerate access to new technologies, and strengthen Sasol’s innovation pipeline.
• Support the Innovation Centre of Excellence in embedding group-wide standards, governance, and best practices for innovation networks and partnerships.
• Act as a connector between internal stakeholders and external innovation communities to ensure alignment, visibility, and impact of Sasol’s innovation agenda.

• 4-year University Degree (Engineering, Business, Economics, or related field)
• Postgraduate qualification (e.g., MSc, MBA, or equivalent) advantageous

• 9+ years relevant experience in innovation management, business development, technology assessment, or strategic portfolio evaluation
• Exposure to energy, chemicals, or sustainability sectors preferred

• None required, though affiliation to professional innovation/business associations advantageous

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