General Manager Exploration

• Join a powerhouse leadership team with excellent track record
• Set a strategy that will realise value across the projects
• Opportunity to demonstrate leadership skills driving the business forward

The Opportunity – General Manager Exploration

We’ve partnered with a solid company at a pivotal stage of growth. Backed by a strong asset base and a clear vision for value creation they are now seeking a commercially savvy exploration leader to help unlock the full potential of its tenement holdings – not just through discovery, but through smart partnerships, transactions, and strategic positioning.

This is not a traditional exploration role. It requires someone who can think beyond drilling programs – someone who can assess the best pathway to value for each asset in the portfolio.

Whether it’s through in-ground exploration, joint ventures, farm-ins, divestments, or acquisition opportunities, this role is central to shaping the company’s growth and capitalising on its extensive footprint.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Value Realisation – Assess the portfolio and determine the optimal path to value for each asset: explore, develop, divest, partner, or acquire.
• Opportunity Origination – Actively identify JV, farm-in, or asset sale opportunities and bring them forward for evaluation by the commercial and executive team.
• Market Awareness – Maintain strong knowledge of mining landscape, particularly operators adjacent to the company’s tenements, and proactively identify areas of strategic alignment or consolidation.
• Technical Oversight – Lead exploration programs where appropriate, ensuring high-quality technical evaluation and prioritisation of targets with real commercial potential.
• Portfolio Management – Help shape and rationalise the company’s landholding strategy to focus resources on areas of highest strategic value.
• Stakeholder Engagement – Build and maintain productive relationships with JV partners, regulators, communities, and internal teams.

What You Bring:

• 10+ years of mineral exploration and business development experience
• A proven ability to assess and unlock value from a large, multi-asset portfolio through exploration and/or transaction-led strategies
• Strong commercial instincts and understanding of how exploration decisions impact shareholder value
• A solid network and knowledge of mid-tier miners, with an ability to spot synergies and structure potential partnerships
• Experience engaging with internal stakeholders including executives, boards, and commercial teams
• Degree in Geology or related discipline, with a pragmatic and strategic approach to exploration leadership

Your resume will be kept completely private & confidential until we have discussed the role and you are comfortable to move forward with the opportunity.

If this role sounds like the perfect fit for you click apply now to send a copy of your CV.

On the other hand, if you are unsure if this role is the right fit for you get in touch with Bernard on 0458 604 939 to have a confidential discussion around your career.

Bernard Hoogenboezem
Associate Director – Mining

email: bernard@zenithsearch.com