General Manager

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**Job **Title**:
**General Manager**:

- **Corporate Strategy & Innovation**

**Remuneration**:
**Negotiable**

**Reporting to**:
**Executive Manager**

**MAIN **PURPOSE / OBJECTIVE OF THE POSITION**

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.

**ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS**

**Minimum**
- Post graduate Degree in Agriculture, Finance, Legal or Business field

**Preferable**

Postgraduate qualification in Strategy and Scenario planning

**RELEVANT EXPERIENCE**

**Minimum**

**Min Exp.** job**
- Experience in agricultural industry, agri-finance and investment banking
- Experience in conceptualising and commercialisation of banking opportunities
- Experience with leading a team of specialists and managing delivery across business units.
- Experience in formulating strategy / scenario planning and / Or Corporate Reporting

10 years

**Ideal**

Minimum time spent in job

N/A

N/A

**Competence**

**Level**
- Basic Economics

3
- Agricultural Industry

4
- Business / Financial Acumen

4
- Management Consulting

4
- Corporate Reporting

3
- Strategy Planning

5
- Project Management

3

**ADDITIONAL TRAINING OR KNOWLEDGE**

Knowledge PFMA

Knowledge of the Land Bank Act
Knowledge of Corporate Governance, King framework

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Guiding the Strategy Development and the development of the Corporate Plan
- Drives the strategy formulation process across the company 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).
- Supports the strategy formulation and assessment
- Drive the companies value proposition and product and service offerings to chosen markets and customer segments
- Develops strategy for market development and penetration by identifying the best mechanisms to achieve objectives.
- Identifies, manages and executes the most appropriate tools, and partnerships to support strategy, this includes new products, collaborations etc.
- 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 companies 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.
- Creates new financial instruments to support, enhance and promote the acceleration of the company’s internal mandate
- 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 company.
- 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 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
- Responsible for making strategic management available in a format that enables business to make decisions relating to the strategy
- Assesses viability and sustainability of potential deals related to market development initiatives.
- Develops impact assessment of each project in line with market development activities.
- Provides input to decision making via relevant mandated credit decision making.
- Identifies strategic indicators that require metrics for reporting purposes.
- Identified appropriate metrics and ensure that data exists for measurement, cascades measuring tools and processes into organisations.
- Develop, Implement, Monitor and Report on all aspects of the Companies Development Impact Strategy and Effectiveness
- Contribute to the development and continuous review of the compan