Ad Visible Until: 26 October 2018
Our client is a commercial bank providing banking services to corporate, SME and retail clientele. The bank has 30 branches in Kenya of which 15 are in Nairobi. Our client also operates 2 Business Centres in Nairobi and Mombasa to cater for enterprise clients.
Ref: KEN000224/MM
Vacancy Type: Permanent
Reports To: Managing Director Direct Reports: Head of IT Location: Nairobi, Kenya Job Purpose: This role is responsible for creating and implementing Digital/technology vision and plan, ensuring it aligns and drives the business strategy and helps supports its key lines of business.
POSITION: CHIEF DIGITAL OFFICER
Reports To: Managing Director
Direct Reports: Head of IT
Job Purpose: This role is responsible for creating and implementing Digital/technology vision and plan, ensuring it aligns and drives the business strategy and helps supports its key lines of business.
Key Responsibilities
Shares responsibility for the formulation and implementation of the Bank’s strategic plan by active participation as an Executive team member in strategy planning forums as the Digital and IT subject matter expert.
Develops and executes the digital and technology strategic and operating plan to support and enhance the bank’s strategic ambitions and business requirements, focusing resources so that cost effectiveness and optimum Member service experiences are achieved.
Foster innovation, prioritising IT/ Digital initiatives, and co-ordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future systems
Establishes and sets short and long-range objectives for the digital strategy for the bank and gains buy-in of the various stakeholders and establishing criteria for monitoring progress and measuring success.
Defines and executes a strategy for the core banking systems/platforms/networks that is cost effective, reduces complexity and improves speed to market of new product delivery.
Communicates the bank’s technology strategy to management, staff, partners, Members, and stakeholders as and when appropriate.
Oversees the management of Member service and support processes for technology based services.
Acts as a digital pathfinder, interprets critical business drivers, conducts research, maintains an understanding of current banking/financial services industry trends, consults and participates in peer review in order to develop long-term plans.
Defines the digital architecture of the bank while balancing digital assets and computing services with financial and marketing needs.
Seamless integration of digital and information technology assets from the Member, through product and service design, through financial statement and management reporting is a primary concern.
Provides enterprise-wide direction on the use of emerging digitisation technologies for banking operations
Defines and communicates corporate plans, policies, and standards for the organization for acquiring, implementing, and operating IT systems
Minimum Knowledge, Qualifications and Experience required for this Role
Bsc Degree – Computer Science
Masters in a similar field would be an added advantage
Strong Leadership Capability
15 years’ experience in various aspects of IT / Digital Technology
Preference for candidate in the Telecommunication business
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