Business Optimisation Specialist

SUMMARY:
Seeking a Business Optimisation Specialist that will be reporting to the General Manager: Business Optimization SA. The incumbent will be responsible for Instilling strong strategic alignment, ideation creation, research, disruption, business case development, project discipline, prioritization, rigorous metric management and tracking will be key in delivering operational excellence and adoption.

POSITION INFO:

Requirements

Qualification in business engineering, analysis, project management or business administration, or equivalent NQF level 7

3– 5 years’ experience in business optimization, analysis, or project management environment.

Computer proficiency at an advanced level

Serving as part of the work-stream to drive process discipline and rigor throughout the initiatives

Aligning with initiative owner on clearly defined success metrics, including milestone goals and timing, to ensure the initiative is on track 

Adapting the business case tools and dashboard reports to fit clearly within the context of the initiative, while still maintaining a common frame that translates across the transformation

Proactively flagging issues or barriers to success, and works with the initiative team leader to create a relevant action plan

Maintain a pipeline for new ideas coming from engagements and insights and creating a repository for further research and analysis

Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements and uncovering areas for improvement.

Developing and implementing solutions.

Performing requirements analysis - Documenting and communicating the results.

Ensure alignment and adherence to governance requirements required by the Transformation Office

Tracks progress of the transformation and business optimisation initiatives and reports any issues

Supports initiative leaders in collecting information and documenting the results/progress by initiative (e.g., reports, emerging issue logs)

Identifies and highlights issues that merit further investigation by the Chief Transformation Officer or initiative leads

Prepares reports and facilitates completion of ad hoc requests from Transformation Office

Supports initiative leaders in identifying emerging issues within their project and in reporting timely, clear and accurate updates to the transformation office including updates to the master plan and other ad hoc reports

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