De Beers Senior Diamond Revenue Manager

About De Beers

Founded in 1888, De Beers is a leading international diamond group whose expertise spans diamond discovery, sourcing, grading and luxury jewellery. With deep roots in southern Africa and a global presence, the group brings together scientific knowledge, technical precision and creative craftsmanship. As an employer, De Beers offers career paths across mining, engineering, gemmology, jewellery design, retail and corporate functions. Its multidisciplinary environment connects the origins of natural diamonds with their transformation into exceptional creations. Professionals join a business where heritage meets innovation, and where provenance, responsible practices and evolving consumer expectations are central to the future of the diamond industry.

Role & Responsibilities

• Define and implement Diamond Resource Revenue Models for De Beers Group operations and potential future mines, based on sample data.
• Ensure Diamond Revenue Modelling and Diamond Revenue Analysis (DRA) comply with business requirements, reporting codes and regulations in each country of activity.
• Define Diamond Revenue Modelling processes and guidelines from sampling through forecasting, and support their practical application across M&D MRM and the Business Units.
• Maintain robust diamond data validation processes and guidelines to ensure revenue and assortment inputs are accurate, statistically sound and fit for purpose.
• Keep Diamond Revenue Models aligned with the latest De Beers Group Price Book and reconcile resulting Price Book changes across operations.
• Compile revenue forecasts for the Business Units, Group Finance and GSS using operational plans and budgets from Business Planning submissions (data calls).
• Reconcile revenue estimates and forecasts by series and unit, identify assortment variances, and define their impact on operational revenues, processing plans and GSS supply.
• Develop and maintain Mineral Resource Classification Scorecards for Revenue within the Mineral Resource Classification System, ensuring appropriate resource and reserve confidence ratings in line with applicable reporting codes such as SAMREC.
• Maintain a technical risk register for Diamond Revenue management as part of the Resource and Reserve Risk register, highlighting issues for operational teams to address.
• Deconvolute revenue data when production is combined, ensuring revenues are appropriately allocated to affected operations.
• Serve as the primary interface with Competent Persons, Group Sightholder Sales, Pricing & Development, reporting and Group Strategy on Diamond Resource Revenue matters.
• Promote all aspects of SHE.
• Support Group-wide Mineral Resource Management governance.
• Contribute to functional reviews of resource models to ensure revenue is appropriately represented.
• Improve business performance through the effective application of Diamond Revenue expertise.
• Develop and support talent in Diamond Revenue modelling and reconciliation.
• Align and strengthen discipline health, including standards, practices and technical development across the Group.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in a mining discipline, geosciences, statistics, econometrics or a similar field.
• Registration as a professional and full membership of the relevant professional discipline institute preferred.
• 5 years’ experience at a senior level in a mining discipline, diamond sorting and sales, or diamond pricing.
• Experience defining standards, guidelines and processes.
• Experience identifying and mitigating operational risks.
• Experience evaluating projects and operations.
• Advanced understanding of the entire diamond pipeline, including sorting, aggregation and sales.
• Experience with mining governance, audit processes and reporting systems.
• Understanding of Diamond Revenue Analysis.
• Expert understanding of GSS diamond assortment and Group sales strategy.
• Good understanding of DTC and GSS data structures and systems.
• Knowledge of tender processes, contractor administration and financial progress monitoring.
• Ability to manage service level agreements.
• Management experience, including successful management of a sub-functional team.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across operations.
• High integrity and commitment to transparent reporting.
• Strong analytical thinking and decision-making capability.
• Ability to balance technical rigour with practical business needs.
• Ability to drive strategy to optimise processes, manage external factors and leverage technology to support future business needs.

Skills

Experience

5 years’ experience at a senior level in a mining discipline, diamond sorting and sales, or diamond pricing; experience defining standards, guidelines and processes, identifying and mitigating operational risks, and evaluating projects and operations; management experience, including successful management of a sub-functional team.

Education

Tertiary qualification in a mining discipline, geosciences, statistics, econometrics or a similar field.

Culture

De Beers’ workplace culture combines the technical expertise of the diamond industry with the craftsmanship and client focus of luxury jewellery, bringing together diverse disciplines across an international business. Its professional environment emphasises collaboration, safety and responsible sourcing, with a shared commitment to protecting the integrity of natural diamonds from origin to finished creation.

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