Digital Enterprise Agility Lead

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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

As Strategic Partner to the CEO and EXCO of a Business Unit [e.g. RB] define the Digital Business Unit Agility transformation strategy that will enable a BU to achieve its strategic goals and objectives. Enable a team of BU Agile Coaches to implement and continuously adapt the principles, methodology and tools of Digital Enterprise Agility in collaboration with the Heads of Business, IT and other support functions to achieve digital business unit agility.

Job Description

Define and implement Digital Agility transformation strategy for an Business Unit or Function to improve value delivery to customers & clients.
- As Strategic Partner to a Business Unit Exco, work with the Business and IT leadership plus all other support functions [e.g.Finance, Risk] to create a full value-chain enterprise transformation strategy towards Digital Business Unit Agility.
- Establish and implement short-, medium-, and long-term BU Digital Agility transformation goals.
- Coordinate internal resources (Agile Coaches and other experts) as well as relationships with external experts to deliver measurable business results.
- Create BU Agility roadmaps aligned to advancing ABSA’s digital transformation ambition and through a team of Agile Coaches drive implementation of those roadmaps.
- Increase collaboration, predictability, full value-chain transparency and promote a culture of experimentation and innovation in the Enterprise.
- As an agility steward with deep expertise, ensure that the Digital Enterprise Agility principles are applied and embedded across the enterprise.
- Coach the Exco members and senior leadership of the Business Unit or Function on the changes in thinking and being that the quest to Business Unit Agility will require of them.
- Lead the development of the BU Agility toolbox that will be accessible to all areas across the Group to support ABSA-wide Digital Agility enablement.

Lead by example role modelling the principles, methods and tools of Digital Agility to improve adoption across the Enterprise
- Ensure that a BU Agility Community of Practice/Centre of Excellence is in place and works closely with the Digital Enterprise Agility Practice.
- As an individual with advanced mastery in aspects of Business Agility and one of the Group’s leading experts, stay current on the Global developments in Digital Enterprise Agility and share it with the community.
- Model the principles underlying Digital Busines Agility to EXCO members and everyone you interact with by living them.
- Create a sustainable Digital Business Unit Agility capability that lasts long after key external supportive players have moved on.
- Reduce or eliminate reliance on external Agile coaches and consultants in the Business Unit or Function through developing people within the Line-of-Business.
- Take a leading role in the internal Business Unit Agility community and champion involvement in external Digital Agility communities.

Drive and take accountability for Digital Business Unit Agility health and performance to continuously improve and achieve strategic goals
- As member of the Business Unit or Function EXCO, provide guidance and support to ensure the Line-of-Business focus on value delivery to the customer.
- Contribute in the design of effective organisational structures, from cross-functional stable teams to multi-disciplinary teams around Customer Journeys that are optimised for value delivery.
- Coach the Business Unit to make decisions, continuously improve, and measure performance informed by data. Establish and implement metrics to optimize agile delivery and measure business agility in terms of predictability, reliability, adaptability, and time to market.
- Take a stand as a respected Digital Business Unit Agility guardian and holistically assess the organisation, portfolio, programs, and teams for agility health, providing guidance on creating continuous improvement plans and embedding a continuous improvement culture.

Design and implement Enterprise Coaching approach to drive Digital Business Unit Agility Mindset, Principles, Methodology and Tools.
- Critical requirement to motivate, develop, negotiate, mediate and cause commitments with EXCO members of the Business Unit or Function and other senior leaders
- Understand that facilitators consciously embody self-awareness, self-management, and convey openness and enthusiasm while maintaining an allegiance to the 'power of teams' over individual contributors.
- As trusted advisor on the Line-of-Business EXCO, help business, technology and support function leaders and their teams to adopt Digital Enterrpsie Agility practices,