Chief of Staff - Durban at Talented Recruitment Specialists

Requirements: 

• Relevant Master’s degree (e.g. MBA)
• Strong work experience leading projects, teams or organisations
• Market research experience is advantageous
• Proven track record of effectively interacting with executive management
• Experience with project management methods like Scrum or Agile
• Fluent in change management and continuous improvement methods, such as Six Sigma or Lean
• Exceptional quantitative, analytical and conceptual problem-solving skills combined with outstanding business acumen
• Broad functional knowledge, including but not limited to strategy, business development, product development, project management, human resources, marketing and sales, etc.
• Excellent interpersonal, engagement and communication skills
• Entrepreneurial and results-driven achiever
• Ability to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization
• Ability to influence decision making at executive leadership level
• Excellent presentation skills

Duties and responsibilities:

• Working with our Group CEO, and Executive Leadership team to help drive and execute the company’s strategy and work on high-level strategic projects assigned by the CEO.
• Participates and leads programme management of CEO initiatives, which involves duties on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis.
• Providing department leaders with recommendations and consultation to improve teamwork
• Planning, coordinating and keeping contents of a meeting focused
• Determining key performance indicators and how to measure team performance
• Providing tactical support to implement ideas
• Working with leadership to deliver, monitor and communicate progress towards goals
• Responding to inquiries on behalf of the Chief Executive
• Overseeing strategic business initiatives from ideation to implementation
• Identifying and helping solve core problems or opportunities within business processes
• Providing Chief Executive and other senior leaders with insight and analysis on the company’s operations
• Assessing risk when business decisions are made
• Providing support and oversight for special projects and initiatives
• Planning, coordinating and leading meetings and workshops
• Identifying and providing recommendations on improvements across the organisation
• Look externally and internally to drive forward innovation ideas that will support driving business profitability.