Senior Sustainability Specialist

7 months ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Nedbank Full time

**Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Contact**
- REQ 133758 - Michelle Thabethe- Job Family- Finance- Career Stream- Strategic- Leadership Pipeline- Manage Self: Professional (MSP)**Job Purpose**
- To facilitate long term strategy development and provide company management with strategy updates. Develops and implements a strategy definition and implementation process in division; including measurements against long term strategy. Provides management with corporate performance measures and competitor analysis and ensures functional alignment with Group strategy. Responsible for developing partnerships; strategic alliances and associations whilst representing the companys views effectively.**Responsibilities**:

- Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc).
- Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy (e.g. Green Strategy).
- Seek opportunities to improve business processes and systems by identifying and recommending effective ways to operate and adding value to Nedbank.
- Ensure alignment to group objectives by establishing and driving the long term strategy for the division.
- Realise division strategy by driving the realisation and executing the divisional strategy and action plan.
- Ensure the continuous alignment of divisional strategy by monitoring; controlling and aligning strategy realisation.
- Create a competitive and successful function through understanding competitor activity and acting to leverage opportunities.
- Conduct long-term planning; budgeting; staffing and operations.
- Ensure alignment to Group planning and definition requirements by establishing standardised frameworks.
- Ensure risk compliance by establishing and manage appropriate risk practices.
- Improve efficiency by providing management information; system improvements and standardised procedures.
- Drive priority delivery based on strategic alignment and return on investment by configuring portfolio of services or projects.
- Ensure functional alignment with Group strategy by providing management with corporate performance measures and competitor analysis Ensure strategic alignment and realisation by translating divisional and group strategy into effective; clear and measurable action plans.
- Realise sustainable strategic intent and provide insight into the organisation by driving effective and efficient service or product delivery.
- Provide guidance to top management with regards to potential areas of improvement.
- Achieve quality and cost competitiveness which is made transparent to the client by providing structured services which are benchmarked to the industry.
- Support the achievement of the business strategy; objectives and values by reviewing Nedbank and Business Unit Plan and ensuring delivered systems; process; services and solutions are aligned.
- Identify training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from management.
- Ensure all personal development plan activities are completed within specified timeframe.
- Share knowledge and industry trends with team and stakeholders during formal and informal interaction.
- Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes (e.g. operational processes) that will improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses by highlighting benefits in support of the implementation of recommendations.
- Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc).
- Drive priority delivery based on strategic alignment and return on investment by configuring portfolio of services or projects.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Monitor and report on Nedbank’s operational carbon and environmental footprint for internal reporting structure as to eventually feed into external reporting.- Reporting requirements include:
- Internal committees: Opcom, the Climate Risk Task Team, the Group Climate Resilient Committee.
- External reporting: The Carbon Disclosure Programme (CDP), Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) and numerous external company reports.
- Have a broad and deep understanding of data, information, and knowledge generation as it relates to the sustainability space:
- Make informed assumption regarding green or sustainability data due to non-availability of data. As example, make appropriate thermodynamic assumptions regarding diesel genset electrical efficiency to feed into the carbon tax.
- Generate and disseminate knowledge regarding the sustainability industry developments, what lead to the developments and how will it impact Nedbank in future. As example, understand how carbon offsets feed into distributed ledgers and what the potential energy consumption of this could be.
- More general output include:
- Build strong internal and external stakeholder relationships by pr

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