Executive Manager: Agricultural Economics

2 weeks ago

Centurion, South Africa Land Bank Careers Full time

**Job Advert Summary**:
The Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa (Land Bank) is South Africa’s only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the bank’s sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach. These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit. The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry. As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people.

**MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB**

To lead and proactively drive a Specialised Knowledge Hub for Agricultural Industry Economics and Scientific Expertise for the Land Bank.

Creates strategies and programmes to improve the service delivery capability across the bank

To establish approaches and methodologies across the entire Bank for effective and consistently applied Assessment / Due Diligence processes.

Initiate, grow and sustain sector specific development programmes, in conjunction with intermediaries and service providers, across the country.

The purpose if this business division is to serve a s a provider of specialist agri sector expertise, supporting the front-end banking teams to undertake in-depth due diligence of projects/enterprises, to evaluate risks, and to advise on the structuring and mitigation mechanisms.

**Key Performance Areas**:
**1. Develops, Implements, monitors and adjusts the Agricultural Economics and Advisory strategy as aligned to the corporate plan**
- Participating in Group Strategy Formulation as a member of the Exco.
- Analyse the Land Bank Strategy to determine the future trends and strategic direction of the company and translates Group Strategy into relevant divisional strategy.
- Interpret the Land Bank Strategy to determine the 3 year vision/strategy for Corporate Banking.

**2. Design, implement and grow a Specialised Knowledge Hub for Agricultural Industry Economics and Scientific Expertise for the Land Bank**
- Design and resource the optimal structure
- Research, Design and implement an operational model to achieve outputs
- Creates and implements the process and methodology to enhance the efficiencies of the funding process from origination to maturity
- Creates services offerings to support on the ground providers in order to enhance quality of business

**3. Agricultural Economics and Advisory Governance and Enterprise Risk Management**
- Responsible for the continual assessment of operational risks associated with the role and inherent in the business, taking account of changing economic or market conditions, legal and regulatory requirements,
- Clearly articulate the value proposition of each transaction proposed and how the credit risks support the value proposition.

**4. Initiate, grow and sustain sector specific development programmes**
- Source sector specific development opportunities through the current banking structure
- Partners with intermediaries and service providers to initiate, grow and sustain sector specific development programmes
- Reviews Land Bank Strategy and Development impact to align potential sector specific development opportunities for example transformative initiatives such as:

- Commercialisation of Emerging Wool Farmers in the Eastern Cape
- Expansion of Macadamia Nuts initiatives
- Resuscitation of Citrus production in Limpopo

**5. Executive Functions**
- Chair / member of operational committees where input is relevant
- Relevant board communications and interactions
- Provide/source ad hoc advice to meet organisational requirements
- Play a key role in developing and implementing strategy and objectives for designated business area
- Facilitate client interaction across the Land Bank

**6. Divisional and People Management**

**Performance Management**
- Analyse the business plan to determine the applicable deliverables and targets
- Compile the Performance Management documentation in collaboration with the staff members
- Conduct performance planning session and Track and monitor performance in accordance with performance contracts
- Conduct performance reviews in accordance with policies and procedures and take corrective actions where necessary

**Capacity Planning**
- Determine the human resource requirements, in accordance with the expected deliverables and current capacity

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