Closing Date 2020/03/20
Reference Number LAN200302-1
Job Title General Manager: Corporate Strategy & Innovation
Division Strategy and Communications
Unit Corporate Strategy and Innovation
Job Type Classification Permanent
Location - Country South Africa
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Town / City Centurion
JOB ADVERT SUMMARY
The Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa (Land Bank) is South Africa’s only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the bank’s sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach. These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit. The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry. As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people.
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB
Contribute to the development of the Bank’s strategic plan/corporate plan. To provide leadership in strategy development and monitoring across the Land Bank based on the Corporate Plan. Develop and implement key strategies to support the implementation of the Corporate Plan.
Drive the introduction, development and improvements to the Bank’s value proposition and products and service offerings across key markets and customer segments. Initiate innovative solutions to the Bank’s strategic challenges and imperatives.
Key Performance Areas
Guiding the Land Bank Strategy Development and the development of the Corporate Plan
1. Drives the Banks strategy formulation process across the Land Bank to create a cohesive, cascaded and focused overall plan
2. Leads the articulation of the vision, mission and ensures alignment in all strategy areas.
3. Develops the strategy framework for organisational assessment and performance.
4. Tracks the progress of implementation of the organisation’s strategy.
5. Develops and tracks metrics for strategic commitments (strategy maps per theme).
6. Supports Land Bank Insurance Company (LBIC) strategy formulation and assessment.
Drive the Bank’s value proposition and product and service offerings to chosen markets and customer segments
1. Develops strategy for market development and penetration by identifying the best mechanisms to achieve objectives.
2. Identifies, manages and executes the most appropriate tools, and partnerships to support strategy, this includes new products, collaborations etc.
3. Establishes and incubates market development initiatives.
4. Develops strategy to transition such initiatives to the relevant division.
5. Maintains strategic partnerships with focus on institutional arrangements and value chain partners to improve long term business viability.
6. Develops and maintains external relationships which support the Bank’s objectives.
7. Originates new financial instruments which can be used by the business to support greater market penetration in line with the strategy objectives.
8. Establishes new financial products with partners in support of innovation.
9. Creates new financial instruments to support, enhance and promote the acceleration of the Land Bank’s Development Impact mandate
Develop and maintain the organisational performance monitoring, measurement and reporting system
1. Drafts and submits quarterly reports to executive management on progress towards achieving the strategy for the Bank.
2. Proactively identifies impediments to progress and drives reporting on addressing these impediments.
3. Reports institutionally, and drives mandated reporting at divisional level.
4. Manages and monitors the Land Bank BBBEE programme to maintain and improve the rating
5. Manages the annual report process and submission
6. Determines what needs to be measured to report on progress of any strategy
7. Identifying gaps in data requirements and creating the actual framework to collect relevant data
8. Managing data input process and accuracy
9. Responsible for making strategic management available in a format that enables business to make decisions relating to the strategy
10. Assesses viability and sustainability of potential deals related to market development initiatives.
11. Develops impact assessment of each project in line with market development activities.
12. Provides input to decision making via relevant mandated credit decision making.
13. Identifies strategic indicators that require metrics for reporting purposes.
14. Identified appropriate metrics and ensure that data exists for emasurement, cascades measuring tools and processes into organisations.
Departmental and People Management Performance Management
1. Analyse the business plan to determine the applicable deliverables and targets
2. Compile the Performance Management documentation in collaboration with the staff member in terms of:
1) Job Profile requirements
2) Key Performance Areas
3) Personal Development Plan Capacity Planning
4) Determine the human capital requirements, in accordance with the expected deliverables and current capacity
5) Secure the human capital requirements to ensure that deliverables will be met in accordance with the expected targets
6) Set and achieve employment equity targets.
7) Minimise staff turnover Financial Management
8) Develop and manage budget
9) Manage expenditure and ensure no fruitless expenditure
10) Adhere to financial guidelines and thus ensure proper control over expenditure
11) Pursue divisional targets and manage the financial health and stability of division
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