Head of Business Engagement at Absa South Africa

Job Summary

• Provide complex advice and support in the positioning of strategic change operating models and frameworks in a broadly defined business functional strategy; enabling operating model, strategy and value chain formulation and alignment.

Job Description

Stakeholder Management

• Actively promote and manage the collaborative engagement of internal and external stakeholders, including suppliers, clients, service providers, business partners and other Absa entities.
• Collaborate with DE, ITO and Business Stakeholders to serve as a primary point of engagement for the data engineering function for any new/change related activities
• Ensure that planning and delivery of initiatives are aligned with the broader vision, architecture and strategy of the organisation
• Develop Hypothesis, Business Cases and Preliminary Documentation to support the approval and initiation of projects within the project portfolio
• Lead delivery of key strategic items
• Lead project teams (Internal and External) on key initiatives
• Ensure change is are effectively transitioned to operations, including hyper-care leadership
• Advise leadership teams on strategy, operating models and roadmaps
• Audit and review use of technologies, with a focus on data, data management, and advanced analytics
• Strategic expertise and support: Provide expertise, support and guidance on complex and key strategic change matters, ensuring alignment with business strategy and deep engagement with buisness stakeholders
• Change frameworks and standards: Ensure the design, implementation and maintenance of strategic change frameworks and standards against global best practice standards

Change Programmes

• Oversee strategic change and efficiency programmes as senior specialist and provide guidance and advice where required

Compliance and Risk Management

• Fulfil all activities in adherence to relevant control and compliance requirements

Governance

• Oversee the fulfilment of all required governance activities, including change tracking and reporting

People

• Proactively attract, recruit, develop, retain, reward & deploy a diverse resource base aligned to an ever evolving tech environment (ahead of demand)
• Build a high performance team environment through self-directed teams by driving performance management & measurement that is aligned with agile working practices (including daily, weekly, etc. sprint routines, regular & honest feedback etc.)
• Accountable for the right people in the right teams to deliver on our tech strategy (always!)
• Leverage coaching techniques in all squad related activity to drive a higher quality design and deployment of technical products and services

Financial & Vendor Management, Risk & Governance

• Carry the ‘one stop shop’ accountability for all risk associated with technical decision making (from ideation to deployment)
• Manage & Apply the organization risk & governance frameworks
• Ensure decisions on infrastructure & product design are aligned to chapter & guild guidelines & are sustainable for the enterprise
• Proactively involve / engage chapter & guild leads in product design & infrastructure decision making, applying an enterprise wide lens to product & service development
• Manage vendor selection processes & take full accountability for all related commercial impact
• Negotiate best fit contracts for the organization at an enterprise level and align decision making to our key business principles of scalability, resilience, captivity etc.
• Deliver on time & on budget (always)

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)