Senior Business Manager: CPO PPB Pan-Africa

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Establish KPIs and metrics to track strategic execution progress and outcomes.

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With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

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The Senior Business Manager PPB Pan-Africa role is responsible for working with the Executive leadership team in translating business strategies into executable outcomes and ensuring consistent, disciplined delivery across the organisation is progressed and reported on.

The role acts as the bridge between strategy and execution, driving alignment across product, risk, technology, operations, and finance to ensure strategic priorities are effectively implemented and realised.

This role ensures that strategy moves beyond planning into measurable business impact, through structured execution, governance, and cross-functional orchestration.

Translate busines strategy into clear execution roadmaps, priorities, and initiatives
Define and embed execution frameworks, delivery models, and playbooks to support implementation.
Ensure alignment between strategic objectives, business plans and functional execution.
Drive clarity on “what needs to be done, by whom, by when, and how success is measured.

Establish and manage a portfolio of strategic initiatives, ensuring prioritisation aligns with business value and resource capacity.
Track and manage delivery across initiatives, including: Milestones, Dependencies, Risks and issues.
Ensure effective trade-offs are made where competing priorities exist.
Implement portfolio governance disciplines to maintain focus and delivery momentum.

Coordinate execution across key enablement functions, including:
- Job Description
- Risk
- Technology
- Operations
- Finance
- Human Capital
Ensure integrated delivery across the end-to-end value chain.
Resolve execution bottlenecks and misalignment between business and enabling functions.
Act as a central point of coordination for complex, cross-functional initiatives.

Define and embed execution governance structures, including:
- Decision forums
- Accountability frameworks
- Escalation protocols
Clarify roles, responsibilities, and decision rights across stakeholders.
Support the evolution of the operating model to enable effective strategy delivery.
Ensure alignment between organisational design and execution requirements.

Establish KPIs and metrics to track strategic execution progress and outcomes.
Monitor performance against:
- Strategic objectives
- Financial targets
- Customer outcomes
Provide transparency through dashboards and reporting.
Ensure benefits realisation is clearly defined, tracked, and achieved.

Support executive governance structures by:
- Preparing strategic progress reports
- Highlighting risks and issues
- Providing actionable insights
Enable informed decision-making through data-driven reporting and analysis.
Maintain strong alignment between executive intent and operational execution.

Drive disciplined execution of transformation initiatives.
Support change management by ensuring:
- Clear communication
- Stakeholder alignment
- Adoption of new processes or capabilities
Promote a delivery-oriented culture focused on outcomes and accountability.

Engage senior stakeholders across the business and enabling functions.
Build strong relationships to enable collaboration and alignment.
Influence decision-making without direct authority in matrix environments

Requirements

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Post Graduate Degree: Honours Degree, Post Graduate Diploma and Professional Qualification (NQF8) (Preferably in Business/Commerce/Management studies).

8 – 12+ years’ experience in strategy execution and transformation delivery, managing complex, cross-functional programmes
Working with senior leadership and executive stakeholders
Experience in retail banking or lending environments is advantageous
Proven track record managing complex, senior client relationships
Strong exposure to operating model design and implementation
Experience in financial services, consulting, or strategy execution roles

Commercial Acumen
Strategy Execution
Complexity Management
Structured Thinking
Data-Driven Decision Making
Disciplined Execution
Financial Acumen
Influencing Skills/stakeholder engagement
Managing Ambiguity
Portfolio Management
Program Management
Reporting and Analysis
Analytical Problem Solving

Strategic thinking
Stakeholder Management
Adaptability
Analytical Thinking
Collaboration
Driving results
Execution and Operating discipline
Resilience

Education

Master's Degree, Postgraduate Degrees and Professional Qualifications: Business, Commerce and Management Studies

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised