Head: Digital Business Transitioning

1 week ago

Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa Fempower Personnel Full time R1 200 000 - R2 500 000 per year

Employment Type: Fixed-Term Contract (6–12 months)

Role Overview

A specialist financial institution is seeking an experienced Head: Digital Business Transitioning to lead and accelerate its journey toward becoming a digitally enabled, future-ready organisation.

This role is a strategic transformation mandate, focused on designing and driving enterprise-wide digital change rather than operational IT delivery. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive digital business strategy that integrates technology, people, processes and data to improve efficiency, competitiveness and customer experience.

The role is offered on a 6–12 month fixed-term contract.

Key Responsibilities Digital Strategy & Transformation Leadership

  • Diagnose the organisation's market position, business value chain and digital maturity.

  • Develop a clear digital business vision, blueprint and future-state architecture.

  • Translate strategy into a bold, structured and achievable implementation roadmap.

  • Drive enterprise-wide digital transformation initiatives aligned to business strategy.

Implementation & Delivery

  • Define and sequence digital initiatives across front- and back-office environments.

  • Develop digital business investment cases (quantitative and qualitative).

  • Embed agile ways of working and modern delivery approaches.

  • Track delivery of transformation milestones and measurable business outcomes.

Stakeholder Engagement & Change Enablement

  • Engage extensively with executive and senior stakeholders across the organisation.

  • Facilitate strategy, visioning and ideation workshops at Exco and Board level.

  • Act as a change ambassador, shifting mindsets and driving adoption of digital solutions.

  • Collaborate with internal and external partners to enable innovation.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

  • Ensure governance, risk and compliance are embedded across digital programmes.

  • Provide oversight for ethical and responsible use of emerging technologies.

  • Ensure compliance with regulatory, cybersecurity and internal policy frameworks.

Minimum Requirements

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Business, or related field.

  • Relevant international certifications (e.g. CISA or similar) will be advantageous.

Experience

  • Extensive experience in digital strategy development and execution (15+ years overall).

  • Proven track record delivering large-scale digital transformation initiatives.

  • Strong experience in crafting digital investment and business cases.

  • Demonstrated application of agile methodologies within large organisations.

  • Senior-level experience engaging C-suite stakeholders and Boards.

  • Previous application development experience is critical.

  • Experience in shifting organisational mindsets and enabling change.

Ideal Candidate Profile

  • A strategic, commercially minded digital leader with strong execution capability.

  • Comfortable operating in complex, regulated environments.

  • Highly credible at executive level with exceptional facilitation and communication skills.

  • Delivery-focused, decisive, and resilient.

  • Able to operate independently with minimal supervision.

If you are a seasoned digital transformation leader seeking a high-impact, strategic role with national significance, we encourage you to apply.

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