General Manager: Corporate Strategy

1 week 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**

Contribute to the development of the Bank’s strategic plan/corporate plan. To provide leadership in strategy development and monitoring across the Land Bank based on the Corporate Plan. Develop and implement key strategies to support the implementation of the Corporate Plan. Drive the introduction, development and improvements to the Bank’s value proposition and products and service offerings across key markets and customer segments. Initiate innovative solutions to the Bank’s strategic challenges and imperatives.

**Key Performance Areas**:
**1. Guiding the Land Bank Strategy Development and the development of the Corporate Plan**
- Drives the Banks strategy formulation process across the Land Bank to create a cohesive, cascaded and focused overall plan
- Leads the articulation of the vision, mission and ensures alignment in all strategy areas.
- Develops the strategy framework for organisational assessment and performance.
- Tracks the progress of implementation of the organisation’s strategy.
- Develops and tracks metrics for strategic commitments (strategy maps per theme).

**2. **Drive the Bank’s value proposition and product and service offerings to chosen markets and customer segments**
- Establishes and incubates market development initiatives.
- Develops strategy to transition such initiatives to the relevant division.
- Maintains strategic partnerships with focus on institutional arrangements and value chain partners to improve long term business viability.
- Develops and maintains external relationships which support the Bank’s objectives.
- Originates new financial instruments which can be used by the business to support greater market penetration in line with the strategy objectives.
- Establishes new financial products with partners in support of innovation.

**3. Develop and maintain the organisational performance monitoring, measurement and reporting system**
- Drafts and submits quarterly reports to executive management on progress towards achieving the strategy for the Bank.
- Proactively identifies impediments to progress and drives reporting on addressing these impediments.
- Reports institutionally, and drives mandated reporting at divisional level.
- Manages and monitors the Land Bank BBBEE programme to maintain and improve the rating
- Manages the annual report process and submission
- Determines what needs to be measured to report on progress of any strategy
- Identifying gaps in data requirements and creating the actual framework to collect relevant data
- Managing data input process and accuracy

**4. Develop, Implement, Monitor and Report on all aspects of the Bank’s Development Impact Strategy and Effectiveness**
- Undertake the collection and analysis of data and information to determine its applicability and utilisation.
- Document all analysis actions and archive for future reference purposes
- Support internal stakeholders in the evaluation of investment through field visit verification.
- Establish the required development impact assessment and estimation tools, develop and source them for implementation/use.
- Review and make recommendations in terms of key thematic agenda for research (Development Impact/Viability Indicators).
- Initiate research and compilation of evaluation reports and present evaluation findings
- Generate documents, presentations and publications showcase the Bank’s development impact.
- Ensure regular model based measurement of development impact for reporting to NT, Board, etc.
- Contribute to lessons learnt papers from data and information gathered.

**5. Departmental and People Management**
- Performance Management
- Capacity Planning
- Financial Management

**Preferred Minimum Education and Experience**:

- Post graduate Degree in Agriculture, Finan



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