Executive Head: Big Data

7 months ago

Midrand, South Africa Vodafone Full time

**Role purpose**:
The role holder will be accountable to define and own the vision, strategy, policies and guidelines for Big Data and Analytics and drives excellence in execution. The role holder is responsible to evolve and lead our Big Data and Analytics as a center of excellence to world class status. This will be through thought leadership on the utilization of our proprietary data as a competitive advantage internally and externally in the market.

The role holder will leverage our data assets as a strategic differentiator through the enablement of better decision making and maximize value generation driving towards an insights-driven, data-led culture across the organization.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Define and implement the strategy for companywide Big Data, Machine Learning, CVM, AI and analytics to ensure the user functions needs are implemented and deliver their use case requirements.
- Lead complex Big data, Analytics, Machine learning, CVM and AI projects, including planning, execution, and monitoring, while effectively coordinating with cross-functional teams.
- Provide thought leadership across the business to drive the adoption of world class practices in the fields of Big Data and analytics to deliver measurable business benefit
- Liaise with EXCO to define specific big data requirements that will aide decision making in line with strategy and mission delivery in their domains and for the wider business
- Use advanced analytics and statistical methods to analyse the company’s data to unlock new opportunities as well as answer complex business questions to understand customer behaviour and business trends
- Contribute to the technology strategy for analytics platforms in liaison with Technology Lead and other key stakeholders to ensure overall Data requirements are met through the use of advanced technologies in the most cost effective and efficient way
- Lead in Building of advanced analytics skills and proficiency across the business to increase the output for decentralized decision making at the lowest level
- Drive an insight driven, data-led culture within the organization.
- Work hands-on with users and stakeholders across geographically dispersed markets. Create a successful engagement model and ensure that end results are applicable, understood, socialized, and drive business value. As part of this, driving regular show and tells for releases.

**Working with Others**
- Consciously takes steps to make the most of every conversation/interaction
- Identifies people’s needs, interests and motives to be able to influence the decisions they make
- Communicates simply to excite and engage people
- Pro-actively adapts own style and approach to build rapport, and work with others more effectively
- Builds and maintains strong relationships and networks

**Operational Excellence**:

- Targets effort and resources on high-value, high impact activity
- Focuses on achieving maximum performance and driving continuous improvement
- Thinks about processes and problems cross-functionally and end-to-end
- Uses knowledge of products, technology, process, systems and policy to solve problems

**Creativity and Innovation**
- Finds creative ways to exploit opportunities and solve problems
- Takes risks and pushes what is possible
- Experiments with unorthodox approaches

**Business Know how**
- Uses data and research to make decisions that are competitively and financially robust
- Balances current and future needs
- Thinks and acts like an owner of the business
- Acts in line with legal, regulatory, professional and ethical standards
- Cost management
- Revenue opportunity identification

**Working with Change**
- Responds flexibly to changing situations
- Manages the business and people aspects of change to drive performance

**Project and Programme Management**
- Defines scope and deliverables in terms of time, cost, quality and business benefit
- Schedules activity and identifies resource needs, dependencies and synergies
- Evaluates progress, mitigates risks and addresses issues

**Planning and Control**:

- Analyses performance trends to determine the health of the business
- Steers business performance by using strategy and external data to help set goals
- Translates strategies into actionable plans that add value via process and operational improvements
- Maintains controls within Financial Systems through setup control and master data management

**Accounting**
- Prepares, analyses, and summarises financial data to support business operations and deliver statutory information
- Ensures the integrity of processes and systems to record and authorise transactions in compliance with Safaricom accounting policies and regulation.

**Reporting**
- Delivers timely and accurate reports to satisfy statutory and business requirements.
- Identifies key performance and variances, and provides recommendations.
- Bachelor’s degree from a recognized university in a business-related fie

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