Bank Windhoek is recruiting a Digital Transformation Manager, to be based in Windhoek, Namibia.
Description
- The primary purpose of the role is to lead and coordinate initiatives defined as part of the organization’s digital transformation strategy
- This role will be responsible for leveraging digital technologies to enhance operational efficiency, improve customer experience, and drive innovation across the organization
- The Digital Transformation Manager will also be responsible for building and growing a digital-savvy culture within the organization
Duties
- Digital Transformation Roadmap:
- Develop and manage the digital transformation roadmap in line with the digital strategy
- Manage the individual initiatives within these roadmaps and ensure they are delivered within time and cost thresholds
- Basically, act as project manager for these initiatives
- Constantly assess and manage risks and opportunities during the delivery of these initiatives to ensure the organisation adjusts to take advantage of opportunities or mitigate/avoid risks
- Business Case Development:
- Assist in drafting business cases for the digital transformation initiatives and facilitate taking these through the necessary governance forums for approval
- Manage costs and resources allocated to the business cases and help ensure milestones and budgets are managed properly
- Ensure the change management areas are addressed correctly to allow successful implementation of initiatives
- Manage the IT Platform delivery closely to raise any potential challenges or delays in delivery timelines or quality
- Digital initiative Outcomes Management:
- Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) for the digital transformation initiatives in order to track whether outcomes are being achieved
- Manage these KPIs and recommend any actions to drive these, whether they touch on customer adoption, revenue generation, efficiencies or staff usage
- Stakeholder Management and Reporting:
- Ensure all stakeholders (internal or external) are managed effectively to allow for initiatives to be implemented successfully and outcomes to be achieved
- Internal stakeholders include, but are not limited to Information Technology, Operations, Retail Banking Services, Segment Heads, Risk and Credit
- Ensure executive and management forums (including steering committees) are fully informed and that expectations around deliverables, KPIs and costs/benefits are managed proactively
- Draft required reports for the different governance forums and management to provide clear and transparent status and progress on digital transformation initiatives
- Financial Management and Reporting:
- Manage the budgets allocated for the initiatives under the responsibility of this role
- Ensure IT spend is within thresholds and matches the delivery and scope agreed for business cases
- Manage and report on the commercial value (business case benefits) of the initiatives under the responsibility of this role
- Change Management:
- Help build an organisational culture that promotes:
- Data-driven decision-making (demonstrating the power of data analytics as a tool to make business decisions)
- The adoption of technology to gain efficiencies and improve customer experience
- Advanced data analytics to understand customers better
Requisites
- Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a related field
- Master’s Degree in a business or technology field
- Experience:
- 10 years work-experience in banking or other financial services and/or digital projects in banks or financial institutions
- Exposure to large digital transformation programmes
- Project management exposure
- Deep experience to managing diverse stakeholders (executive management, internal partners and customers)
- Strong understanding/focus on digital technologies and platform ecosystems
- Exposure and expertise in human-centered design methods like Design Thinking
- Financial industry experience preferred
- A proven knowledge of all aspects of the technology stack in a bank
- Experience in deriving benefits from technology
- Key Relationship Interfaces
- Internal Relationships:
- Digital Programme Steering Committee
- Information Technology Department
- Executive Management Team
- Business Units
- Operations Department, incl. e-Channels
- Risk
- External Relationships:
- Customers
- Technology Partners
- Competencies:
- Leading and Deciding Action
- Supporting and Co-operating
- Interacting and Presenting
- Analysing and Interpreting
- Creating and Conceptualising
- Organising and Executing
- Adapting and Coping
- Enterprising and Performing
Notes
- Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted