Manager: Asset Optimisation
Globeleq
South Africa
Posted on Sep 2, 2025
For more than 20 years, Globeleq has been a long-term investor, developer, owner and operator of diversified power projects in Africa, where the company is one of the largest Independent Power Producers. With nearly 1,800MW of generation capacity in operation across 17 power plants in 7 countries, 485MW of new power projects in construction and >2,000MW in development, Globeleq is one of the largest independent power producers solely focused in Africa. Globeleq is 70% owned by British International Investment and 30% by Norfund, the development finance institutions of the UK and Norway, and has a proven track record for supporting the ongoing development of the African power sector.
Globeleq’s various generation technologies include gas, wind, solar PV, battery energy storage (BESS), and geothermal. The company is also actively pursuing new opportunities which are emerging from the energy transition.
To support the company’s growth across Africa, Globeleq is now seeking to recruit a Manager: Asset Optimization.
This role will report directly into the MD Asset Management and Operations, and will play a lead role in driving opportunities to enhance the value of portfolio companies within Globeleq. This position requires a blend of strategic thinking, financial acumen, operational curiosity and execution within a matrix organisation.
The role will also work closely with the wider Corporate and country teams, including Operations, Business Finance, Project Finance, Legal, Business Development, and Country Managing Directors and General Managers. The role includes facilitating strategy development, producing high quality financial and commercial analysis, time-sensitive presentations, reports and papers.
- Application Deadline
- October 05, 2025
- Department
- Business Operations
- Employment Type
- Permanent
- Location
- South Africa
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
- Reporting To
- Managing Director: Asset Management and Operations
Key Responsibilities
Managing value creation initiatives
- Work with senior management across Globeleq to drive the strategic planning process and set value creation priorities for operating assets. This includes establishing timelines and processes and supporting teams to ensure effective execution of agreed priorities;
- Act as lead commercial support to MD AM & Operations, including scenario analysis to inform decision-making, applying a knowledge of value drivers and levers;
- Support the MD AM & Operations and Group Finance develop the Annual Operational Plan budgets and assumptions including supporting asset teams with deep dives on capex, major maintenance or continuous improvement plans; and
- Project manage value optimization efforts, including piloting projects with a portfolio effect, and tracking and supporting value initiatives across the portfolio; and
- Work closely with the Group Business Finance function to review and update inputs for operational and enterprise financial models used to value the business.
Actively drive operational excellence
- Perform critical review and analysis of information provided from the operational assets, validate data accuracy, prepare key metric dashboards and analysis to track business performance and support decision making;
- Identify and recommend responses to operational problems, challenges, or opportunities;
- Take ownership of the monthly business operations section of the Management Information report; and
- Create and maintain systems and processes to streamline operations, whilst continually reviewing areas for improvement.
Stakeholder Management
- Ensure clear actions from meetings are documented, communicated, actioned and followed up with relevant stakeholders;
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders;
- Collaborate and improve interaction across Group Finance, Legal, Operations and Business Development team to improve alignment towards strategic goals; and
- Ensure participants are prepared for executive meetings, including advance distribution of discussion documents (e.g. board meetings).
- Able to support asset teams manage compliance with financing terms, optimising financing arrangements, and Lender management (consents, waivers, and distributions).
Organisational Assistance
- Assist in the preparation of board materials;
- Work closely with the MD: AM and Operations in preparing the agenda for meetings, moderating meeting participants and drafting reports and correspondence as required;
- Provide overall MD: AM and Operations support including managing priorities, developing analytical insights, providing updates on the progress of specific projects and maintenance outages and monitoring/reporting on operational and financial KPIs.
Skills and Competencies
- Excellent analytical skills – ability to gather data, analyse, visualise and structure fact-based recommendations;
- Curious about operations and passionate about continuous improvement and operational excellence;
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills – ability to convey complex concepts concisely and effectively across multiple levels including, executive leadership team, peers, and with external stakeholders;
- Excellent influencing skills – strong interpersonal skills, comfortable engaging with and negotiating with all stakeholder levels, including senior executives;
- Excellent facilitation skills – skills to guide and direct objectives at meetings, strategic planning sessions etc;
- Execution and results-focused, with the ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines in a fast-paced, fluid environment;
- Excellent project management skills – highly organised, structured and detail orientated work ethic:
Experience, Knowledge & Qualifications
- Degree in Engineering, Economics, Finance with a preference for a commercial qualification including an MBA, Masters in Finance or CFA Charter.
- Minimum of seven years’ professional experience, from an operation, asset management, or investment banking role with exposure to project finance and the infrastructure and power sector.
- Exposure to contract, contract negotiation and dispute.
- Excellent MS Office suite experience, particularly with Excel, Word and PowerPoint (e.g. financial models and presentations)
- Experience with report writing and presentations to senior leaders
About Globeleq
We develop, own and operate power plants utilising various technologies across the African continent. With many years of international industry experience, the support of committed shareholders, and long-standing project, technology, finance and government partnerships, we have the financial strength, management and operational expertise to power Africa to realise its potential.
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