Executive: People Change and Implementation

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- With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

The Senior Specialist: People Change and Implementation is a value-enabling role reporting into the Executive: Business Transformation and Strategic Change. The portfolio for this role focuses on driving strategic change and implementation initiatives that enhance organisational agility and responsiveness. It encompasses the orchestration of business readiness, adoption, and change communication efforts across group, business units, and clusters. The role ensures seamless integration of change activities, enabling consistent experiences for colleagues and customers, while embedding transformation at the frontline. It also supports the delivery of multi-channel strategies that align with customer value generation and operational excellence. The ideal incumbent will use data as an asset to measure the impact of change and make recommendations to help support business decision making.

As a Senior Manager in the Absa Business Banking Chief Operations Office, you will excel in commercializing and monetizing strategies with a strong financial acumen. Your ability to leverage digital tools and technology to automate processes and generate commercial value will be paramount. With a focus on efficiency driven by automation, digitization, and cost optimization, you will consistently create demonstrated value for our clients

Job Description

KEY FOCUS AREAS- Lead the orchestration of change across Business Banking- Lead the development and oversee the execution of change and implementation strategies.- Drive business readiness and adoption initiatives across the COO environment.- Ensure alignment of change activities with strategic objectives.- Enable speed to value and responsiveness to organisational imperatives.- Develop and execute strategic business change communication.- Promote stakeholder engagement and collaboration.- Support governance, risk mitigation, and compliance in change initiatives.- Drive continuous improvement and innovation in change practices.- Ensure integration of change initiatives across business units.- Use data to measure the end-to-end change cycle, generate insights, and to help make strategic business decisions

ACCOUNTABILITIES

Strategy Formulation and Execution- Lead the development and oversee the execution of change and implementation strategies.- Drive business readiness and adoption initiatives across the COO environment.- Ensure alignment of change activities with strategic objectives.- Enable speed to value and responsiveness to organisational imperatives.- Lead the development of change and implementation strategies aligned to COO priorities.- Guide the integration of change initiatives across systems, processes, and teams- Translate strategic objectives into operational plans and execution roadmaps for the business area.- Align functional priorities with business unit goals, setting clear short
- and medium-term milestones.- Support strategic initiatives through effective partnerships and structured programme delivery.- Monitor execution progress and adjust plans to ensure alignment with business outcomes.- Provide input into operating model and strategy formulation to support business performance.

Customer Primacy- Champion customer-centric change initiatives that improve experience and responsiveness.- Ensure change activities reflect customer insights and drive measurable value.- Embed service excellence through integrated frameworks and frontline enablement.- Use customer insights to inform operational plans and prioritise improvements.- Enhance customer experience through process optimisation and service delivery.- Promote customer-centric decision-making across teams.- Represent customer needs in forums to influence service priorities.

Sustainable Growth- Align change and implementation efforts with enterprise growth strategies.- Mobilise teams to deliver transformation outcomes that support long-term sustainability.- Monitor and evaluate the impact of change initiatives on business performance.- Contribute to growth planning aligned with segment and enterprise priorities.- Support execution of growth strategies and operational initiatives.- Track performance against growth targets and resolve delivery barriers.- Evaluate returns on initiatives to ensure sustainable business value.

Client-Driven Innovation and Change- Drive innovation in change practices to enhance customer and colleague outcomes.- Lead change programmes with clear engagement, readiness, and adoption plans.- Influence across the organisation to embed new ways of working and digital solutions.- Identify opportunities for innovation in products, servi