Digital Leader Johannesburg

Digital Transformation, reports to the Chief Technology Officer and is responsible to develop and drive the organization's overall digital transformation strategy and roadmap. Review existing internal business processes and identify areas of improvement. Assist with the development of new fit-for-purpose digital solutions to improve operational efficiency and improve service level.   *Key Accountabilities:* * Develop a clearly-defined and compelling digital strategy for the organizations  future and align this to the overall business strategy; * Set and implement digital strategy by working with cross-functional partners to map and transition traditional processes to digital ones; * Provide thought leadership  by  creating awareness and simplify complex business and technology concepts; * Drive digital innovation and projects  and serve as a cross-functional change agent across the organization; * Identify and implement potential innovations that reduce manual processing.  Also assist with automating and streamlining previously manual processes; * Review and apply best practices to establish architecture and frameworks consistent with and supportive of the organisation’s strategy; * Ensure delivery that is consistent with agile processes across the team; * Ensure service delivery from vendors as per service level and software license and maintenance agreements; * Engage with a diverse set of clients to understand their business strategy, challenges, needs and priorities; * Providing leadership in securing multi-year funding for high-tech projects when needed; * Identify relevant emerging technology opportunities and design effective digital solutions to business challenges;  * Be a digital evangelist, championing the use of digital technology and practices to engender a digital mindset from the top down; * Support business clients to implement organizational change through various types of client engagement and use of established change management processes; * Contribute to the development of your own and team’s technical and business acumen; * Provide coaching and mentorship and support to all staff where required; * Ensure collaboration, knowledge sharing, and digital best practices between partners and colleagues to help embed a robust digital ecosystem; * Measure ROI on digital projects, fine-tuning approaches as needed  * Ensure that all relevant digital initiatives are fully integrated into the strategic-planning process for leadership commitment, resource allocation and execution; * Work with teams across the business to generate innovative digital solutions for products, services, processes, customer experiences, and business models; * Own and centrally monitor the digital innovation project portfolio; * Build, manage and continue to grow an internal and external digital innovation ecosystem; * Build and develop in-house digital capabilities * Identifying new tools that can s