Associate Director - Technology Transformation (KZN) at Deloitte

Specialised capabilities:

Technology Strategy:

• Ability to define and drive the client’s desired technology strategy and supporting business processes
• Leads the design of the client’s IT operating model and strategy and ensures proper alignment between the business strategy and the supporting IT strategy throughout the development
• Introduces relevant market trends for clients to consider for design enhancements and articulates their potential impact on the IT strategy
• Integrates IT infrastructure and assets (e.g., data centers, servers/networks) into the strategy and defines how they can provide value to the organization

Technology Operating Model Design: 

• Ability to help our client’s technology leaders rethink, reshape and reimagine their technology operating model into one that best enables business outcomes, shareholder value and core technology capabilities
• Adopts a holistic view when recommending solutions to address business needs; considers the business need in totality versus focusing on a specific solution
• Anticipates and articulates broader organizational implications of proposed IT recommendations.  Advocates for the modernization of IT talent management
• Leads a team to develop robust IT operating models an defines integration points with the broader business
• Ways of working implementation, incl. process and governance optimization
• Operating model organization, talent and workforce design

Technology Sourcing and Enablement:  

• Ability to strategically advise clients and identify opportunities for outsourcing based on business needs
• Advising clients on disruptive outsourcing trends and how to leverage this to gain competitive advantage, accelerate change in the organisation, gain access to scarce technology skills and capabilities, deliver IT services more effectively or reduce cost.

Transformation Delivery:  

• Ability to clearly define the transformation roadmap and journey for the client
•  Ability to drive the implementation of the transformation roadmap and the transition to the target state for our clients
• Provide transformation programme office set up and delivery
• Provide transformation programme assurance.

Qualifications

Required:

• Completed university graduate degree
• 10-15 years of experience in sales and/or corporate strategy
• Over five years of business development experience and a track record working at senior level is critical, ideally focused on growth strategy solutions-based practice growth.

Preferred:

• An advanced degree in Business is preferred but not essential