Data Management Strategist

1 month ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Sanlam Full time

About the Role

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Santam, a leading short-term insurer in South Africa, is seeking an experienced Data Management Strategist to join their team. As a key member of the organization, this individual will be responsible for providing data management and business intelligence services that span across all stakeholders.

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Primary Responsibilities

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  • Participate in data strategy formulation to conceptualize change programs, projects, and initiatives.">
  • Engage with stakeholders to understand their data and business intelligence demands.">
  • Develop and maintain partnerships with stakeholders to facilitate data demand and objectives.">
  • Become a trusted advisor and influencer of decision-making by providing advisory services, guidance, and support on data quality practices.">
  • Foster collaboration among stakeholders by identifying and addressing conflict issues to implement optimized data quality practices.">
  • Cultivate relationships internally by communicating business demands and assisting in the adoption and usage of products and services to enhance efficiency and improve delivery to stakeholders.">
  • Identify opportunities to influence process improvements and methodologies by researching and recommending initiatives and effective ways to operate and add value to Santam.">
  • Implement a wide range of data management services as required by the portfolio.">
  • Address data quality concerns, conduct root cause analysis, and provide feedback to relevant governance forums and data management competency centers.">
  • Be consulted for input on and informed of all data management services related to data.">
  • Share operational risk knowledge, resources, and practices with teams and stakeholders during formal and informal interactions to enable up-skilling within the organization.">
  • Obtain buy-in for developing new and enhanced processes that improve functioning by highlighting benefits in support of recommendations.">
  • Deliver demand for data, reporting, and business intelligence services.">
  • Provide specialized data services to identified stakeholders.">
  • Manage conflicts between group-wide positions and business unit objectives.">
  • Lead a team of Data Analysts to assist with impact and data dependency analysis between data sources and prepare technical specifications and design for developers.">
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Key Services Provided

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The Data Management Strategist will provide the following key services:

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  • Evaluate portfolio alignment and prioritization with strategic business objectives.">
  • Facilitate the development of future initiative roadmaps in support of business strategies.">
  • Conceptualize designs across individual business units and the Group through the IT Business Delivery Team.">
  • Prepare business cases.">
  • Initiate projects and assist in contracting suitable resources.">
  • Evaluate appropriateness, quality, and completeness of solutions (reviewing business requirements, process designs, provided solutions, and test plans).">
  • Evaluate project/scope alignment with business cases/business objectives.">
  • Support appropriate governance structures (Steerco, Data Forums, SARB, SDF, etc.).">
  • Support change management and contribute to approach and strategy.">
  • BUILD strong partnerships with Business Owners, Product Owners, Project Managers, other IT Business Delivery Managers, and external vendors.">
  • Monitor BU Portfolio budget.">
  • Support the transition of projects to operations/BAU.">
  • Provide support required to embed new and changed processes and solutions to become BAU.">
  • Support benefits realization and monitoring.">
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Requirements

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To be successful in this role, candidates should possess the following qualifications:

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  • A Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field (Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Management, Project Management, Process Engineering, Statistics/Applied Math).">
  • DAMA certified data management professional (CDMP) or similar data management certification.">
  • Minimum 10 years' experience at a management level.">
  • 5 years' experience managing the BU portfolio and delivering solutions to respective BU's.">
  • Strong data management experience (advantageous).">
  • Experience dealing with external suppliers and offshore business partners (advantageous).">
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Salary

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R750,000 - R1,200,000 per annum, depending on experience.

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