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    Head of Operations - Johannesburg, South Africa - The Recruitment Council

    The Recruitment Council
    The Recruitment Council Johannesburg, South Africa

    3 hours ago

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    Description
    Are you a seasoned professional in operations management, ready to make a significant impact in the financial services industry? Our client is seeking a dynamic and accomplished Head of Operations to drive key initiatives and enhance operational efficiency:
    • The role of the Head of Operations is to develop and implement long-term operational strategies and ensure that high impact initiatives are executed effectively on a daily basis.
    • Oversee and support successful operational performance of company-wide projects that impact client service delivery including business administration, technology, processes and claims fulfilment.
    • Provide effective leadership & management of business risks and help ensure that business risks are identified, assessed, managed, and integrated into the business strategy.
    • Establish a strong focus on continuous improvement and adapt to changing circumstances and play a key role in driving organizational success.
    • Responsible for leading and managing the operational teams.
    • Frequently integrates with other business functions to drive broader work strategies which may impact entire organization.
    • Collaborate with Regional Teams to achieve enterprise wide consistency.
    • Will have high degree of autonomy operating within general management direction and functional policies.
    • Focus is on operations during the current year but participates in establishing multi-year (1-3) strategies and business plans.

    Responsibilities:
    • Drives operational and business change across the organization.
    • Focuses on driving operational efficiencies and business changes to ensure organization meets objectives.
    • Ensures all operations functions are fit for purpose and achieving strategies and goals.
    • Ensures operational processes deliver effective and compliant service to clients and support the client facing teams.
    • Contributes to the operational change strategies.
    • Ensures processing systems meet the business requirements.
    • Monitors Management Information (e.g. activity analysis) and changes approach accordingly.
    • Works in partnership with other Business Unit or Exco leaders/ heads to deliver divisional initiatives around operations and administration.
    • Leads a significant team to deliver against client needs and manage the performance of that team.
    • Ensures that processes and measures are in place for monitoring and maintaining standards of business conduct consistent with the company, legislative and regulatory requirements.
    • Contributes to and participates in the company's-wide senior management groups, committees and ad-hoc project teams and other bodies as necessary.
    • Works on significant and unique issues requiring proficiency in a complex area requiring a broad grasp of practices or principles in a highly specialized field or in cross-functional settings.
    • Possesses an in-depth knowledge of organizational objectives.
    • Develops and implements annual operating plans, consistent with objectives set at next higher organizational level.
    • Often has budgetary responsibility for functional area.

    Discretion:
    • Concentrates on planning and executing for the next 12-36 months in own functional area and input into regional decisions.
    • Erroneous decisions will result in critical delay(s) in schedules and/or unit operations and may jeopardize overall business activities.

    Interaction:
    • Develops and maintains valuable client and resource relationships.
    • May serve as an expert adviser to the company or clients on matters of importance to the success of their business.

    Supervision/Leadership:
    • May manage a sizable team, department or division or will act independently to manage a portfolio of significant and complex client accounts with responsibility for a number of client teams.

    Role-specific Technical Skills and Knowledge:
    • Excellent ability to develop strong relationships quickly, influence key stakeholders, work cross-functionally and autonomously.
    • Ability to organise & manage priorities simultaneously and meet time- sensitive deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
    • Excellent communication skills - both written and verbal. Ability to summarize complex solutions/concepts into a digestible format.
    • Demonstrated experience in operations, risk management and/or excellence in a professional services environment such as consultancy, financial services, or insurance.
    • Excellent project management competencies including a proven track record of successful operational transformation projects.
    • Proficient Excel & data configuration skills to be able to utilise data to support recommendations and to drive change initiatives.

    Qualification:
    • Be in a possession of a Bachelors degree.
    • Have an insurance related tertiary qualification.
    • An MBA or related qualification is preferable.

    Experience:
    • Have a minimum of 5 years managerial experience.
    • Previous applied experience in managing end to end strategic operational functions across the value chain.
    • Minimum of 5 to 10 years commercial/ corporate experience.
    • Be dependable and respect confidentiality.
    • Have a high work ethic and must have the ability to function effectively under pressure.
    • Be a team player, have the ability to build good relationships, support and actively participate in, and contribute to any team initiatives.
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