IT Governance Manager

**Purpose of the Job**:
At Shoprite, you will be part of delivering integrated solutions across the Shoprite Group to some of the most recognized South Africa Retail brands and you’ll do it by working on exciting and innovative IT projects and solutions. We’re proud to be publicly recognized as a largest private sector employer in South Africa and leading employer in Africa. We focus on attracting, developing and retaining a loyal and committed workforce, dedicated to the Group’s culture and organizational objectives.

The purpose of the **IT Governance Manager** is to create, maintain and implement an IT Governance Framework to ensure that the regulatory compliance requirements are embedded within governance structures, whilst developing and implementing controls aimed at mitigating audit risks. Furthermore, the IT Governance Manager interacts with a variety of internal and external stakeholders such as operational functional teams, consultants etc. Business stakeholders will look to you for proactive, collaborative advice on a variety of IT governance topics.

**Job Objectives**:

- Manages and maintains all policies and standards relevant to technological governance
- Ensure all IT practices, policies and procedures are compliant with regulatory requirements
- Establish and maintain a documented IT governance framework/ regime
- Coordinate the development and ongoing maintenance of IT policies and procedures
- Maintain a schedule of policy review and submissions
- Communicate the governance activities, policies and decisions with the IT Leadership and Business Leadership and keep them informed of IT governance decisions that will affect IT services and projects
- Provide highly skilled technical and information security expertise for information on security risk management
- Deep understanding of data environment and data movement, including protecting endpoints, data threat vectors, and relevant mitigating controls.
- Interact with numerous teams across IT: Architecture, Engineering, Operations, Project/Program Management, Legal, and Data & Analytics to develop, enhance and drive the vision and effectiveness of the end point and data security program
- Ensure data security initiatives adhere to continually changing privacy and legal compliance requirements
- Assess and evaluate end point and data security control effectiveness, and drive towards improved control effectiveness, consistency and maturity across the organization

**Qualifications**:

- Diploma or degree in IT, Auditing or equivalent - (essential).

**Experience**:

- **+4 years relevant experience in a similar role**:

- Minimum 12 years of Governance, security and data protection experience
- Experience in working with corporate governance and it governance forums and process
- Experience in IT, information security, risk management, auditing and incident response and recovery
- Good knowledge of all IT technical components
- Strong understanding of multi-disciplinary nature of IT solutions and managing information security, risk management, auditing, incident response and recovery projects and BAU - (essential).
- Cross-functional knowledge of multiple cyber security disciplines, including planning, implementing and running security capabilities - (essential).
- Strong MS Office skills - (essential).

**Knowledge and Skills**:

- **IT Governance** - Able to judge the effectiveness of IT policies, procedures and methodologies that support the entity's strategic plan. Demonstrates extensive knowledge of technology-related best practices and processes. Develops a practical solution to enhance the development and implementation of standards and procedures for a major functional area. Knows about the business and IT change environment.
- Proactively **applies and lives out the company and team values** in everyday interactions and engagements and in delivery of goals and objectives.
- **Exceptional analytical skills **with **strong problem-solving ability **- Integrates various sources of information to plan, prioritize, anticipate and mitigate problems and embed the right structures and foundations.
- **Customer centric solution orientation**:

- Puts internal and external customers first, seeking to understand and meet their needs. Recommends a workable solution that meets the immediate demands of the situation.
- **Results driven and quality orientated**:

- Strong commitment to delivering high quality work. Remains focused and works tenaciously toward meeting and exceeding expectations within quality standards. Is attentive to detail - does it right the first time and/or spot mistakes in own work to align with functional and organisational guidelines or frameworks.
- **Communication**:

- Communicates effectively both verbally and in writing. Able to simply complex technical concepts and confidently convey information to a variety of stakeholders across the business.
- **Organised**:

- Plans and organises own and teams work effectiv