Executive: Partnership Enablement at Nedbank

Job Purpose

• We are looking for an Executive: Partnership Enablement to oversee and manage partners onboarding and consumption of new products, solutions, understanding of partner level requirements and issue management. Advocate for product requests with cross-functional teams and be the voice of Strategic Alliance & Partnerships (SA&P) team in product development and readiness. Supporting the partner relationship managers in development and growth of their partner base through leveraging bank wide capabilities to support SA&P strategy to deliver mutual value.

Job Responsibilities

•     Model the capacity, integration, and operational requirements across the SA&P portfolio as per business strategic needs
•     Drive alignment of capacity requirements with strategic priority
•     Drive best practices and business principles that achieve optimised capacity planning and resource allocation onto projects
•     Participate in the strategic planning for the function and alignment between Partnering Enablement, strategic, delivery and support functions across the businesses
•     Consider the commercial relevance of the function to ensure a clear competitive capability, leveraging off leading industry benchmarks
•     Ensure value add through collaboration with service delivery and support functions during the lifecycle of projects / programmes
•     Develop a roadmap and drive the outcomes to achieve the transition required to remain competitive
•     Instil best practices in the business that will drive the strategic outcomes that will mature the business model
•     Actively build a culture of improvement
•     Optimise performance and productivity of the service delivery and operational teams
•     Narrate the key message of value to all stakeholders throughout the business delivery lifecycle using the most effective communication platforms
•     Support the Nedbank architecture standards and align the business capabilities accordingly
•     Support the Nedbank strategy by driving corporate citizenship

Essential Qualifications

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
• Professional Qualification / Honour's degree

Minimum Experience Level

• 7-10 years and broad ranging integrated experience across Business Operations, Project Management, Managing Business delivery lifecycle, exposure in Parnership's environment, of which atleast 5 years of managing others at a middle management level.
• SAFe lean agile principles

Behavioural Competencies

• Customer Focus
• Business Savvy
• Cultivating Networks and Partnership
• Driving Executive
• Driving Optimisation
• Establishing Strategic Direction
• Operational Decision Making

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Analytical Skills
• Quantitative Skills
• Systems knowledge
• Agile Concepts
• Architecture Modeling
• Conducting root cause analysis
• Use Of Business Assessment tools:Feasibility studies , business cases...
• Compliance Knowledge
• Communication Strategies
• Stakeholder management