BI Delivery/operations Manager

Who we are?
Sanlam Investments Group is one of South Africa’s largest investment management companies. We have a performance history spanning over 100 years, and offer a range of investment and financial planning solutions to protect and grow the long-term wealth of our clients.

**We take particular pride in**:

- Sanlam’s longevity and innovation
- People, teamwork and values
- A culture of diversity and commitment to growing our own timber
- Our robust, tested and proven pragmatic investment process and philosophy

Our local and offshore investment products cover the full investment spectrum: active and passive; single and multi-manager - both locally and internationally. Our active funds range are managed according to our pragmatic value investing style. What will you do?
Manage and coordinate the delivery of BI services (projects and operational support) to the wider Sanlam Investments business.
Build and manage strategies, roadmaps, priorities, release objectives and processes while managing complex dependencies and actively minimising risk.
Perform and report on project planning, budgeting, commercial contract management and resource scheduling, and adjust proactively based on changes in demand.
Ensure that services are delivered in time, within budget, at a high quality and complying to all governance standards.
Focus on the continued adoption of agile and dev ops principles, methodologies, processes and tools.
Co-ordinate the delivery of advanced analytics, reporting, digital transformation and value engineering through data capabilities to businesses
Work with business unit leaders to identify and prioritise problems that advanced analytics is suited to solve
Develop, drive, measure and feedback progress on SIG’s advanced analytics strategy as an enabler of innovation and business value
Work cross-functionally to incorporate requirements and feedback from both internal and external stakeholders, as well as to oversee the ongoing development, optimisation and timely commercialisation of our insights, models and action prompts.
Align your team’s goals with organisational and business unit strategies.
Empower and motivate the team to deliver innovative solutions, while cultivating a milestone-driven culture and managing your team’s performance.
Maintain an end-to-end data strategy and roadmap, spanning from data acquisition, to data integration, processing, management and usage for SIG and its strategic partners
Establish the strategic direction for building the business’s data management program, optimising business approach using data both internally and externally
The development of the scope of the Data Acquisition Framework based on consultation with key stakeholders
Lead the organisation efforts to track data collections, data purchases, databases, physical data models and linkages between datasets.
Oversee cross-functional data policies, while simultaneously ensuring adoption and adherence to data quality and process governance in collaborating departments What will make you successful in this role?
Understanding request for services processes
Team co-ordination and transformation to dev ops
Conceptually understanding technical architecture and framework and driving out technical solutions
Proficient in stakeholder management with many moving parts
The ability to implement processes and stand up a target operating model
Communication both to the larger team and management
Servicing clients with complex solutions
Qualification & Experience
8 - 10 years project management experience, specifically in more complex projects, such as creating a new business or multi-functional projects in an existing business with multiple stakeholders.
Bachelors or Masters degree, preferably in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, Analytics, Business Administration or Engineering.
Experience with agile and hybrid-agile project management methodologies.
An understanding and implementation experience of data-analytical technologies.
Qualification and Experience Degree with 8 to 10 years related project management experience. Knowledge and Skills Project Oversight Project Planning Project Management Tools Project Tracking and Reporting Project Portfolio Management Personal Attributes Organisational savvy - Contributing through others Decision quality - Contributing through others Plans and aligns - Contributing through others Manages complexity - Contributing through others Build a successful career with us
We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future - your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its business clusters - Sanlam Personal Finance, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Sanlam Investments, Sanlam Corporate, Santam, Miway, as well as the Group Office - the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.