About the role
Main Duties:
- Initiates, decides, controls and enforces all Headcount/Costs requirements and budgets for Direct Labour and Manufacturing Overheads.
- Set up monitor and manage Departmental Budgets both operationally and Project related.
- Ensure compliance of the team to the various business processes and JMS system requirements.
- Establishes Long Term Budgets (LUP, LIP).
- Establish Strategic targets regarding Loading, Costs and Productivity.
- Oversight of Line Balancing and Manpower planning.
- Establish objectives, projects and plans to improve cost and labour productivity.
- Enforces all cost and labour productivity targets.
- Is on a day-by-day basis interactive in the technology and neighbouring departments to support primary targets (i.e. On time Delivery, Volume and budget, Quality).
- Break down of the T-targets (linked to On Time Delivery, KOVP, volume targets, Budget and headcount) to the T-R-xxx targets within the yearly target commitment process.
- Introduction of New systems in accordance with international norms with regards to Productivity control and visualization.
- Makes internal as well as external agreements about efficiency with process partners and projects across, Logistics, Painted Body, Finance, Purchasing and Quality.
- New Product Launches/Project Involving Line Balancing and Productivity and Headcount requirements.
- Resource Evaluation and Allocation under changing business requirements through local and international influences.
- Ensure development of the role of Coach within the technology environment.
- Key support for FK Prop, and complete Direct headcount planning with the groups central planning functions (TP and TI) for introductions of new model launches.
Employment Equity Plan:
- Monitor EEP project in core.
- Interaction with plant project team regarding goals and project related issues.
- Representing core in plant team meetings to provide all required feedback
- To support Company and Departmental objectives.
Education
- Degree in Industrial Engineering/Finance or any related qualifications.
Work experience, Leadership experience:
- A minimum of 3 year of relevant experience.
- Knowledge of management system requirements.
- A high degree of knowledge of strategic management and business planning.
- Strong network within Plant Rosslyn and to the central TP-x functions and the wider BMW group.
- Highly developed interpersonal / communication skills.
- Ability to present / influence at all levels.
- Project and budget management skills.
- Workshop design and facilitation skills.
- Experience of working cross functionally and within different cultures.
- A high degree of computer literacy.
Competence:
- Competence for capacity planning and decision coordination towards the management circle of the technology.
- Competence for the development of steering models and processes for capacity flexibility, and for the creation of appropriate guidelines for the other departments towards the management circle of the technology.
- Competence for the control of all operational key performance indicators of the technology at the production site (proportional costs, launch-, fix and special costs) and to carry out operational evaluations in the OtD and ItO processes towards the head of respective technology.
TX-R-31,TX-R-31 / Specialist: Finance
com.bmw.grpw.core.models.jobfinder.IdDisplayItem@638ecdf0
20251119
Automotive
Rosslyn
South Africa
Legal entity:
BMW (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd.
Location:
Rosslyn
Job field:
Production planning and control
Job ID:
171611
Publication date:
19.11.2025
General
Full-time
About BMW Group
With its four brands BMW, MINI, Rolls-Royce and BMW Motorrad, the BMW Group is the world’s leading premium manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles and also provides premium financial services. The BMW Group production network comprises over 30 production sites worldwide; the company has a global sales network in more than 140 countries.
In 2024, the BMW Group sold over 2.45 million passenger vehicles and more than 210,000 motorcycles worldwide. The profit before tax in the financial year 2023 was € 17.1 billion on revenues amounting to € 155.5 billion. As of 31 December 2023, the BMW Group had a workforce of 154,950 employees.
The economic success of the BMW Group has always been based on long-term thinking and responsible action. Sustainability is a key element of the BMW Group’s corporate strategy and covers all products from the supply chain and production to the end of their useful life.
About the role
Main Duties:
- Initiates, decides, controls and enforces all Headcount/Costs requirements and budgets for Direct Labour and Manufacturing Overheads.
- Set up monitor and manage Departmental Budgets both operationally and Project related.
- Ensure compliance of the team to the various business processes and JMS system requirements.
- Establishes Long Term Budgets (LUP, LIP).
- Establish Strategic targets regarding Loading, Costs and Productivity.
- Oversight of Line Balancing and Manpower planning.
- Establish objectives, projects and plans to improve cost and labour productivity.
- Enforces all cost and labour productivity targets.
- Is on a day-by-day basis interactive in the technology and neighbouring departments to support primary targets (i.e. On time Delivery, Volume and budget, Quality).
- Break down of the T-targets (linked to On Time Delivery, KOVP, volume targets, Budget and headcount) to the T-R-xxx targets within the yearly target commitment process.
- Introduction of New systems in accordance with international norms with regards to Productivity control and visualization.
- Makes internal as well as external agreements about efficiency with process partners and projects across, Logistics, Painted Body, Finance, Purchasing and Quality.
- New Product Launches/Project Involving Line Balancing and Productivity and Headcount requirements.
- Resource Evaluation and Allocation under changing business requirements through local and international influences.
- Ensure development of the role of Coach within the technology environment.
- Key support for FK Prop, and complete Direct headcount planning with the groups central planning functions (TP and TI) for introductions of new model launches.
Employment Equity Plan:
- Monitor EEP project in core.
- Interaction with plant project team regarding goals and project related issues.
- Representing core in plant team meetings to provide all required feedback
- To support Company and Departmental objectives.
Education
- Degree in Industrial Engineering/Finance or any related qualifications.
Work experience, Leadership experience:
- A minimum of 3 year of relevant experience.
- Knowledge of management system requirements.
- A high degree of knowledge of strategic management and business planning.
- Strong network within Plant Rosslyn and to the central TP-x functions and the wider BMW group.
- Highly developed interpersonal / communication skills.
- Ability to present / influence at all levels.
- Project and budget management skills.
- Workshop design and facilitation skills.
- Experience of working cross functionally and within different cultures.
- A high degree of computer literacy.
Competence:
- Competence for capacity planning and decision coordination towards the management circle of the technology.
- Competence for the development of steering models and processes for capacity flexibility, and for the creation of appropriate guidelines for the other departments towards the management circle of the technology.
- Competence for the control of all operational key performance indicators of the technology at the production site (proportional costs, launch-, fix and special costs) and to carry out operational evaluations in the OtD and ItO processes towards the head of respective technology.
TX-R-31,TX-R-31 / Specialist: Finance
com.bmw.grpw.core.models.jobfinder.IdDisplayItem@638ecdf0
20251119
Automotive
Rosslyn
South Africa
Legal entity:
BMW (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd.
Location:
Rosslyn
Job field:
Production planning and control
Job ID:
171611
Publication date:
19.11.2025
General
Full-time
About BMW Group
With its four brands BMW, MINI, Rolls-Royce and BMW Motorrad, the BMW Group is the world’s leading premium manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles and also provides premium financial services. The BMW Group production network comprises over 30 production sites worldwide; the company has a global sales network in more than 140 countries.
In 2024, the BMW Group sold over 2.45 million passenger vehicles and more than 210,000 motorcycles worldwide. The profit before tax in the financial year 2023 was € 17.1 billion on revenues amounting to € 155.5 billion. As of 31 December 2023, the BMW Group had a workforce of 154,950 employees.
The economic success of the BMW Group has always been based on long-term thinking and responsible action. Sustainability is a key element of the BMW Group’s corporate strategy and covers all products from the supply chain and production to the end of their useful life.