Purpose Statement

• This role is responsible for providing strategic direction through establishing a data and analytics culture and capability for the company’s Channels Product Line. The goal is to deliver strategic objectives, create business value, manage risk, reduce cost, and drive innovation by harnessing and leveraging data as an asset, while managing the product through its entire life cycle, from planning to delivery. 

Experience

• 10+ years’ business management experience within Data Management, Data Analytics, or Data Science, ideally in a fast-paced and complex business setting, innovative high performing environment such as banking or Operations 
• Demonstrated background in a senior or strategic leadership role related to Data Management or Data Analytics, including over 5 years’ experience of managing data teams. 
• Business and product vision; has had ownership responsibility for a Product previously 
• Working at strategic, tactical and technical levels 
• Career experience to include some time in one or more technical roles (e.g. data engineer, data architect, Data science, etc.) 
• Engaging with both technical and non-technical senior stakeholders across various business units to convey data strategies and capabilities effectively. 
• Authoring of documents relating to product life cycle including business plans, product roadmap, business cases and requirements and functional specifications 
• Earning trust across different levels and multiple groups of a large organization 
• Scoping/running usability studies and/or customer research 
• Using influence and relationships to drive and achieve objectives 
• Leading and managing multi-functional teams to deliver 
• Managing and working with remote / hybrid teams 

Education

Qualifications (Minimum)

• Bachelor’s Degree 
• Grade 12 National Certificate / Vocational 

Qualifications (Ideal or Preferred) 

• Honours Degree 
• AWS certificate and Data Qualifications 

Knowledge And Experience

• Strategic and commercial thinking; able to think about problems from a business perspective using people, technology and product input 
• Business acumen and systems thinking; able to take a ‘big picture’ view, assess, make a logical, sound decision and influence others to achieve objectives 
• Financial acumen – sufficient to effectively operate own cost center 
• People leadership and management practices to empower, create focus and delivery 
• Organizing, planning and prioritizing work 
• Data-driven approach; analytical and quantitative skills 
• In-depth knowledge surrounding: 
• Data Strategy 
• Data principles (modelling, engineering, data quality) 
• Data Management and management of data as an asset 
• Database and Data Warehouse technologies and architectures 
• Data Analytics and Reporting 
• Data Science and Machine Learning 
• Cloud and Big Data Technologies 
• Digital Business Models 
• Entire data lifecycle 
• AWS 
• Technologically literate and able to adapt to new technologies 
• Able to dive deep in understanding the product, the business, and the competitive landscape 
• Able to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences 

Skills

• Commercial Thinking Skills
• Decision making skills
• Interpersonal & Relationship management Skills
• Problem solving skills
• Strategic Thinking Skills