Programme Manager: Strategy Enablement

Insurance and Asset Management is best positioned to provide comprehensive investment and asset management offerings, as well as insurance solutions, to our African clients. Our goal is to meet our clients’ financial needs by offering holistic advice and competitive solutions during significant transition points in their lives. With our expertise in the Standard Bank Group, we are uniquely equipped to serve the financial needs of African clientele seeking trusted guidance on investment, insurance, and asset management solutions. In fact, wego far beyond what you’d expect from financial services – all to make sure our clients have seamless access to a comprehensive range of services, through a pioneering digital ecosystem. Purpose The Personal and Affluent Marketsportfolio has evolved into a one of the critical enabler of SARLSA’s strategic execution, with multiple high-impact initiatives requiring structured programme oversight, stakeholder alignment, and delivery governance. These include the Banking Integration Initiative, Channel Strategy, and Middle Market Segment Strategy, each of which demands dedicated capacity to ensure timely execution, cross-functional coordination, and strategic alignment. TheProgramme Manager: Strategy Enablement is a critical enabler of delivering excellence across multiple high-impact programmes within the Personal and Affluent Markets portfolio. The role will provide dedicated capacity to manage cross-functional initiatives, uphold governance standards, and ensure strategic alignment with Exco priorities. The scope spans five concurrent programmes, each requiring structured oversight, stakeholder coordination, and risk mitigation. 5 - 8 years experience in a similar environment, of which 2 - 3 years at management level Minimum Qualifications Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas (NQF Level 07) in Project Management Process Plan for delivering work outputs, manages independent practices, processes or systems and addresses and balances the demands of different priorities to optimise efficiency. Proactively identify interconnected tactical problems, determine the impact, patterns and trends to identify alternatives and best practice solutions, anticipating future challenges. Accountable for strategy implementation through the integration and optimisation of operational activities to practices and systems across an internal value chain. Prioritise the digital agenda, ensuring both breadth and depth of innovation customer experiences and internal operations. Organise group-wide campaigns to inspire digital thinking and innovation. Follow competitive intelligence, consumer trends, and emerging technologies. Ensure initiatives are groomed and codified so they clearly address real business issues and opportunities. Curate and share digital innovation use cases. Assist with structuring and monitoring prototyping and development progress. Design, develop, implement and monitor area specific improvement programmes in service of system optimisation and best practice implementation. Define change control procedures and ensure the management of projects according to identified standards, controls and best operating practices. Use the insights gained through business information reports to measure success and realign tactical strategy and objectives where appropriate. Provide a sound administrative service and recommendations based on customer and client needs, current information and administrative trends. Manage and monitor the availability of information for project management information tracking, status reporting and accuracy purposes. Identify and document expectations and requirements, ensuring project/s business case/s and scopes are agreed, documented and approved. Provide management reporting for decision making, including project appraisal, evaluation and post-implementation analysis. Ensure the development and facilitation of clearly defined project plans in line with organisationally adopted project management methodology. Understand project management area of application in order to exhibit insight and use understanding to make applicable recommendations and improvements. Customer Build strong customer-centric relationships and develop service level agreements that promote the organisation with stakeholders aligned to Treating the Customer Fairly (TCF) principles. Build and maintain stakeholder relationships for the purposes of expectation management, knowledge sharing and integration. Finance Compile an operational or business area budget aligned with the delivery plans, and ensure the implementation and monitoring of financial controls, management of costs and corporate governance to optimise cost savings and/or profit margins. Learning and Growth Balance, optimise and manage human resources across disciplines through executed human capability plans. Governance Implement the governance management model, framework and policy in own practice and/or tactical area to identify and manage governance and risk exposure liability pro-actively. Programme And Project Management (Proficient) Organisation and Attention to Detail (Proficient) Relationship Management and Networking (Proficient) Judgment and decision making (Proficient) Insurance and Asset Management (IAM) is an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. As part of our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, we encourage applications from people with disabilities. Job Segment: Liability, Project Manager, Relationship Manager, Manager, Insurance, Technology, Customer Service, Management, Strategy Liberty Group Limited - an Authorised Financial Services Provider in terms of the FAIS Act (Licence no 2409) #J-18808-Ljbffr