at Sanlam Group

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.

Core Competencies

• Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others
• Customer focus - Contributing through others
• Drives results - Contributing through others
• Collaborates - Contributing through others
• Being resilient - Contributing through others

Turnaround time

• The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers. 

Our commitment to transformation

• The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensure a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa.  The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.