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Senior Automation Solution Manager



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Nedbank, Personal and Private Banking

Projects • Manage Others

Job Details

Position : Senior Automation Solution Manager

Why join our team!

Step into a leadership role within one of the bank’s most dynamic and high-performing teams.

As the Senior Automation Solution Manager , you’ll lead strategic automation initiatives across Personal and Private Banking, managing a team of experienced project managers and driving delivery excellence.

This role offers exposure to executive-level stakeholders, cutting-edge technologies like Blue Prism, and a portfolio of complex, high-impact projects.

With a hybrid work model, vibrant team culture, and a track record of nearly R1 billion in business benefits, this is a rare opportunity to shape the future of automation in a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment.

Job Purpose

To plan; direct and coordinate the activities of their own projects and the projects of their team to ensure that project goals are accomplished.

Ensure the delivery of projects through enabling of the project teams

Job Responsibilities

  • Determine goals, time frame, funding limitations, and procedures for accomplishing project staffing requirements and allocation of resources.

  • Conduct stakeholder management as a discipline embedded in the capability of project managers and in all project plans for the Business Unit.

  • Manage each stakeholder group actively through the change cycle.

  • Conduct business change impact across process, systems and technology as per the change implementation plan.

  • Conduct and assist the team with technical changes and change management
  • Manage project by ensuring roles, behaviors and operations are understood and strategies defined in project schedule.

  • Keep clients informed through coaching the clients and management where processes and systems are changed.

  • Ensure change management processes are adhered to for all projects in conjunction with client.

  • Ensure effective stakeholder relationship management.

  • Build trusting relationships with all stakeholders.

  • Ensure optimal team delivery by considering and making amendments to processes, structures, operating models and business plans.

  • Collaborate across Business Units and facilitate mutually beneficial outcomes across the stakeholders.

  • Manage capacity across project based on priority and trade-offs.

    Manage the capacity of the project managers in their team and negotiate where capacity constraints occur.

  • Resolve obstacles and seek executive resolution of complex high impact project deviation.

  • Participate in project management definition and strategy.

  • Manage portfolio by ensuring that the project portfolio reflects alignment with the Group Architecture roadmap or business three-year plans.

  • Ensure adherence to project risk management standards and enterprise organizational compliance.

  • Ensure team efficiency Ensure satisfactory post implementation review.

  • Ensure resources are correctly allocated based on their portfolio and skill level against agreed industry benchmark
  • Regulate Steerco Packs and Exco Packs for distribution for executives
  • Apply Agile project management skills
  • An understanding of Automation and Automation practices
  • Preferably Blue Prism/Automation knowledge and Experience

Essential Qualifications

  • NQF Level: Diploma
  • Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualifications

Essential Certifications

  • Certification in consulting programme PMP or prince (advanced) or relevant project methodology) PGMP certification in progress

Minimum Experience Level

  • 5-10 years experience in project management environment
  • 2-3 years working with highly complex and large projects
  • 1-2 years supervisory or line management experience

Technical / Professional Knowledge

  • Strategic planning
  • Communication Strategies
  • Staff resource planning
  • Employee training/development
  • Governance, Risk and Controls
  • Management information and reporting principles, tools and mechanisms
  • Client service management
  • Organisational systems

Disclaimer

Preference will be given to candidates from the underrepresented groups

Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at

Seniority level

  • Mid-Senior level

Employment type

  • Full-time

Job function

  • Project Management
  • Industries: Financial Services and Banking

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