Head of Business Engagement

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time
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  • With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary


Provide complex advice and support in the positioning of strategic change operating models and frameworks in a broadly defined business functional strategy; enabling operating model, strategy and value chain formulation and alignment.


Job Description:

Stakeholder Management

  • Actively promote and manage the collaborative engagement of internal and external stakeholders, including suppliers, clients, service providers, business partners and other Absa entities.
  • Collaborate with DE, ITO and Business Stakeholders to serve as a primary point of engagement for the data engineering function for any new/change related activities
  • Ensure that planning and delivery of initiatives are aligned with the broader vision, architecture and strategy of the organisation
  • Develop Hypothesis, Business Cases and Preliminary Documentation to support the approval and initiation of projects within the project portfolio
  • Lead delivery of key strategic items
  • Lead project teams (Internal and External) on key initiatives
  • Ensure change is are effectively transitioned to operations, including hypercare leadership
  • Advise leadership teams on strategy, operating models and roadmaps
  • Audit and review use of technologies, with a focus on data, data management, and advanced analytics
  • Strategic expertise and support: Provide expertise, support and guidance on complex and key strategic change matters, ensuring alignment with business strategy and deep engagement with buisness stakeholders
  • Change frameworks and standards: Ensure the design, implementation and maintenance of strategic change frameworks and standards against global best practice standards
Change Programmes

  • Oversee strategic change and efficiency programmes as senior specialist and provide guidance and advice where required
Compliance and Risk Management

  • Fulfil all activities in adherence to relevant control and compliance requirements
Governance

  • Oversee the fulfilment of all required governance activities, including change tracking and reporting
People

  • Proactively attract, recruit, develop, retain, reward & deploy a diverse resource base aligned to an ever evolving tech environment (ahead of demand)
  • Build a high performance team environment through selfdirected teams by driving performance management & measurement that is aligned with agile working practices (including daily, weekly, etc. sprint routines, regular & honest feedback etc.)
  • Accountable for the right people in the right teams to deliver on our tech strategy (always)
  • Leverage coaching techniques in all squad related activity to drive a higher quality design and deployment of technical products and services
Financial & Vendor Management, Risk & Governance

  • Carry the 'one stop shop' accountability for all risk associated with technical decision making (from ideation to deployment)
  • Ensure decisions on infrastructure & product design are aligned to chapter & guild guidelines & are sustainable for the enterprise
  • Manage vendor selection processes & take full accountability for all related commercial impact
  • Negotiate best fit contracts for the organization at an enterprise level and align decision making to our key business principles of scalability, resilience, captivity etc.
  • Deliver on time & on budget (always)
Education

Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas:
Business, Commerce and Management Studies (required)

  • Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised_

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