Head: Business Intelligence and Analytics

2 days ago


Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa Sanlam Limited Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Business Intelligence and Analytics professional to join our team at Sanlam Limited. As a key member of our organization, you will play a critical role in supporting our data-informed decision making processes and driving business growth through the application of advanced analytics and reporting solutions.

Key Responsibilities
  • Strategic Contribution
    • Develop and implement a comprehensive business intelligence strategy that aligns with our organization's goals and objectives.
    • Identify opportunities to leverage business intelligence to drive strategic decisions and projects.
    • Lead the transformation of our business intelligence and analytics capabilities to support both traditional reporting requirements and advanced analytics needs.
    • Drive the adoption of business intelligence solutions across the organization and measure their impact on business outcomes.
    • Represent our organization on various committees related to strategic projects, data, analytics, and governance.
  • Business and Decision Support
    • Develop and maintain a clear product vision and roadmap for our business intelligence solutions, ensuring alignment with business strategies and delivering value.
    • Translate business needs into detailed user stories and technical requirements for our business intelligence team.
    • Stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in business intelligence to continuously innovate and improve our solutions.
    • Establish new ways of working in the business to make optimal use of information and insights.
    • Drive early phase activities to explore and evaluate opportunities, lead, build, deploy, and manage various descriptive, predictive, and optimization analytics use cases and experiments.
  • People and Change Management
    • Fulfill line management responsibility for a few senior direct reports from diverse backgrounds.
    • Manage diversity, performance, and output delivery across various teams, including internal Glacier teams, broader SGT data platform, and other business units.
    • Build and optimize a skilled internal team to deliver business intelligence and analytics services and products sustainably to the business.
    • Communicate effectively across departments regarding the role of business intelligence in business and drive adoption of business intelligence solutions.
    • Foster a strong data community between various business lines and act as a strong advocate of using data to enable strategy.
  • Glacier BI Operating Model and Platform
    • Lead the establishment of a modern Glacier BI platform leveraging existing and emerging Group capabilities.
    • Evolving the Glacier BI platform and team to continue to meet the changing needs of the business as it transforms itself to remain competitive in its chosen markets.
  • BI Operations
    • Manage and oversee the service model and relevant service level agreements with Sanlam Group Technology Data Platform team.
    • Manage the engagements with the Sanlam Group Technology teams to deliver its contracted services in line with the relevant service level agreements.
    • Manage and oversee an appropriate budgeting and cost recovery model with Sanlam Group Technology and Sanlam Business Intelligence.
    • Manage and oversee financial commitment, appropriate budgeting, and cost recovery model from businesses making use of the Glacier BI assets and services.


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