Lead HR & Digital HR Projects

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.

13150

25 September 2026

PSR:
Group Rewards & Human Capital Solutions

Sandton, Gauteng

Lead the HR project portfolio delivery capability, ensuring approved HR transformation, optimisation, HRIS, digital HR, data, analytics and organisation effectiveness initiatives are translated into integrated delivery plans, governed through clear project disciplines, and executed with measurable value realisation. The role provides specialist project, programme and portfolio leadership across cross-functional HR initiatives. It integrates business demand, delivery planning, dependency management, governance, stakeholder alignment, change adoption, risk management and benefit tracking across HR, IM, Finance, Legal, Procurement, vendors and relevant HR Centres of Excellence.

The role enables delivery by coordinating plans, managing dependencies, maintaining governance discipline, escalating decisions and ensuring approved initiatives are delivered with clear adoption and value outcomes. The role does not own HR functional policy, HR process design authority, HRIS product ownership, People Analytics content ownership, OD specialist methodology, Talent / Reward decisions, or Digital HR innovation governance. These accountabilities remain with the relevant functional owners.

• Maintain an integrated portfolio view of approved HR projects, including scope, outcomes, milestones, dependencies, risks, owners, resources and value measures.
• Translate approved business priorities into practical delivery roadmaps and project plans.
• Coordinate project sequencing across OD, HRIS, Digital HR, People Analytics, HR governance and related improvement initiatives.
• Ensure initiatives are prioritised against strategic value, delivery readiness, risk, capacity and enterprise impact.
• Provide the Head Group OD, HRIS & People Analytics with an accurate view of portfolio health, key decisions, risks and value delivery.

• Lead planning, mobilisation, execution tracking, risk management and closure of approved HR projects.
• Set up project routines, workstream structures, delivery plans, issue logs, dependency maps and decision forums.
• Coordinate delivery across HR, IM, Finance, Legal, Procurement, vendors and business stakeholders.
• Ensure project teams operate with clear roles, decision rights, delivery expectations and escalation routes.
• Track delivery against agreed scope, timeline, budget, quality and adoption outcomes.
• Ensure project handover into business-as-usual ownership is clear and sustainable.

• Establish and maintain fit-for-purpose project governance standards, templates, stage gates and reporting routines.
• Support project sponsors and workstream leads with structured delivery methods and governance expectations.
• Prepare governance packs, steering committee updates, portfolio dashboards and executive reports.
• Ensure project risks, issues, dependencies and decision requirements are visible and actively managed.
• Ensure delivery approaches comply with Sasol governance, architecture, data privacy, cybersecurity, procurement, legal and relevant people-data requirements.
• Escalate material risks, delays, trade-offs and unresolved decision points in a timely and evidence-based manner.

• Support the Head Group OD, HRIS & People Analytics, and other HR leaders, in assessing new project demand and clarifying business outcomes.
• Facilitate intake discussions with HR leaders, CoEs, HRBPs, IM, Finance and relevant business stakeholders.
• Test whether proposed initiatives have clear ownership, value case, delivery capacity, funding route and governance pathway.
• Identify duplication, conflicting priorities, resource constraints and delivery overload across the portfolio.
• Recommend sequencing, phasing or consolidation of…