About the position
ENVIRONMENT:
As one of South Africa’s fastest-growing FinTech brands, our client is on a mission to harness cutting-edge technologies to deliver seamless experiences and meaningful outcomes for both customers and stakeholders. With a core focus on creating smooth transitions—or "Soft-Landings"—they are looking to expand their impact by bringing exceptional talent on board. This opportunity is ideal for a senior-level technophile with a proven track record of driving large-scale digital transformation. The ideal candidate is fast-thinking, personable, and strategic—someone who values relationships, consistently delivers high performance, and is guided by a strong sense of purpose. This role offers the chance to make a tangible impact in a purpose-driven, high-growth environment.
DUTIES:
Your mission, should you choose to accept:
- Strategy Development: Design and oversee the company's digital strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with organizational values and business objectives.
- Innovation & Best Practices: Foster a culture of digital innovation, staying updated with emerging tech trends and deploying best practices.
- Digital Culture Champion: Lead the transition towards a digitally-enabled working culture, optimizing skills, processes, and tools to meet business goals.
- Project Management: Direct a team in delivering digital solutions, piloting new platforms effectively, and ensuring successful implementations.
- Customer-Centric Problem Solving: Always prioritize the end customer's needs, guaranteeing that digital solutions enhance their overall experience.
- Team Leadership: Manage and motivate the team, ensuring engagement, team cohesion, and high performance.
- Implementation Oversight: Oversee the digital implementation plan, ensuring timely delivery of technology solutions within budget. Support the team in risk identification, contingency planning, and stakeholder engagement.
- Vendor Collaboration: Collaborate with the internal Procurement Team to negotiate deals with external vendors, including cost, contracts, and services.
- Change Management: Promote the adoption of new digital tools and technologies across the organisation.
- Training Development: Design and deliver training materials to facilitate understanding and use of new systems within the organization.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Experience: Min 2 years’ experience in digital transformation or a similar role. Experience of having implemented and evaluated organizational digital solutions and delivering large scale change that added value to the organization.
- Educational Background: Recognized Degree in Business, Engineering, IT or Computer Science related discipline or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
- Leadership Skills: Demonstrated experience in leading diverse teams, fostering innovation, and driving change. Ability to mentor, guide, and develop team members.
- Project Management: Experience with Agile methodologies, SCRUM, or other project management frameworks. Proven ability to oversee multiple projects simultaneously and ensure timely delivery.
- Soft Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities. Adaptable and resilient in the face of challenges and a rapidly changing environment.
- Knowledge: Extensive technological knowledge, firm grasp of industry best practice, and solid understanding of the overall technological landscape.
- Having strong relationships with key third-party software vendors or suppliers will be beneficial.
While we would really like to respond to every application, should you not be contacted for this position within 10 working days please consider your application unsuccessful.
COMMENTS:
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Desired Skills:
- Digital
- Transformation
- Manager
