Strategy Manager – Digital Transformation

Job Description

Overview of the role:

Group Technologies and Digital Platforms drives the technology and digital transformation agenda for the group. The Strategy Manager is a very important role to help drive the strategic planning process in Group Technology and Digital Platforms and plays a key role in helping drive the strategic priorities for the function.  The role will also help to enable a value-driven approach to driving key priorities, that emphasizes collaboration, speed, and efficiency and applied across all areas of the organization.

The key elements of the role include:   

• Ensure quality of analysis, activities, and deliverables for strategic initiatives, including the development and validation of strategic plans and detailed transformation plans
• Help syndicate analysis, results with all stakeholders
• Ongoing research and analysis on ever evolving technology landscape with assessment of relevance for our businesses; collaborate with the Strategic partnership team to work with external partners on innovation ideation 
• Provide inputs to business case development for key strategic initiatives  
• Support on initiatives related to talent strategy for Group technology 
• Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to proactively drive momentum of the transformation initiatives 
   

What you will do:
 Strategy formulation and analysis   

• Support with the annual strategy cycle and building out  of strategic initiatives with the Group Technology & Digital Leadership stakeholders
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders & external partners to drive the strategic agenda
• Leads collection and organization of relevant data for initiative planning and analysis
• Supports development of business cases by analyzing information, formulating and testing hypotheses, and developing and communicating recommendations 
• Helps define financial and non-financial impact of initiatives and projects
   

Governance and planning 

• Supports the Technology strategy leadership in the group technology and digital governance process and related activities 
• Ongoing tracking of progress of key initiatives which are part of the strategic roadmap
• Support for Development of business cases by analyzing information, formulating and testing hypotheses, and developing and communicating recommendations 
• Implement best practice standards in reporting & governance
• Support preparation of materials for senior stakeholder reviews

Organizational / People initiatives 

• Support the Strategy director and HR business partner in Group Technology talent strategy and planning initiatives  
• Monitor progress of impact planning initiatives 
• Support GTDP leadership and HR in relevant people initiatives 

 
Required Skills to be successful:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in consultancy or big 4 as strategy manager 
• Can work independently 
• Excellent communication & presentation skills 
• Technology or digital transformation experience