Chief of Staff

2 weeks ago

Durban, South Africa Talented Recruitment Full time

One of South Africa's leading retailers is seeking a reliable and dynamic individual to join their team. The role requires engagement with senior executive leadership, facilitating and driving strategic initiatives and facilitating stakeholder engagement. Based in Umhlanga, Durban

**Requirements**:

- Relevant Master’s degree (e.g. MBA)
- Strong work experience leading projects, teams or organisations
- Market research experience is advantageous
- Proven track record of effectively interacting with executive management
- Experience with project management methods like Scrum or Agile
- Fluent in change management and continuous improvement methods, such as Six Sigma or Lean
- Exceptional quantitative, analytical and conceptual problem-solving skills combined with outstanding business acumen
- Broad functional knowledge, including but not limited to strategy, business development, product development, project management, human resources, marketing and sales, etc.
- Excellent interpersonal, engagement and communication skills
- Entrepreneurial and results-driven achiever
- Ability to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization
- Ability to influence decision making at executive leadership level
- Excellent presentation skills

**Duties and responsibilities**:

- Working with our Group CEO, and Executive Leadership team to help drive and execute the company’s strategy and work on high-level strategic projects assigned by the CEO.
- Participates and leads programme management of CEO initiatives, which involves duties on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis.
- Providing department leaders with recommendations and consultation to improve teamwork
- Planning, coordinating and keeping contents of a meeting focused
- Determining key performance indicators and how to measure team performance
- Providing tactical support to implement ideas
- Working with leadership to deliver, monitor and communicate progress towards goals
- Responding to inquiries on behalf of the Chief Executive
- Overseeing strategic business initiatives from ideation to implementation
- Identifying and helping solve core problems or opportunities within business processes
- Providing Chief Executive and other senior leaders with insight and analysis on the company’s operations
- Assessing risk when business decisions are made
- Providing support and oversight for special projects and initiatives
- Planning, coordinating and leading meetings and workshops
- Identifying and providing recommendations on improvements across the organisation
- Look externally and internally to drive forward innovation ideas that will support driving business profitability.

**IMPORTANT NOTICE**

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- For more information please contact:
**Kelly Andrews

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