Our clients are in the Merchant Banking, Registrars & Data Solutions, Trustees, and Manufacturing industries and in alignment with their respective growth strategy, highly motivated employees are essential to our client's sustainable success. Hence, recruitment of motivated and competent talents to critical positions is key.

Chief Digital Officer

Job Objectives

· Drive digital innovation and serve as a cross-functional change agent across the organization

· Set and implement digital strategy by working with cross-functional partners to map and transition traditional processes to digital ones

· Be a digital evangelist, championing the use of digital technology and practices to engender a digital mindset from the top down

· 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 to ensure we're investing in the right tools and resources

Duties & Responsibilities

• Develop a clearly-defined and compelling digital strategy for the company’s future.
• 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, marketing channels, 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
• Identifying new tools – AI, digital, CRM – that can support, enhance and improve our solutions.
• Work closely with HR to attract and retain top talent, and to build digital capabilities across the company.

Education Requirement

• Degree in the field of computer science or business administration
• Minimum 7- 10 years’ experience in a similar role designing and launching digital platforms
• Acquired professional certification in any of these would be an added advantage:

i. Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals

ii. Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate

iii. Open Certified Data Scientist (Open CDS)

• Proven experience in IT planning, organization, and development
• Excellent understanding of project management principles
• Demonstrated ability to apply IT in solving business problems
• In-depth knowledge of applicable laws and regulations as they relate to IT.

Key Competencies

Knowledge

· Proven track record of leading successful digital transformation projects

· Understand core business processes and associated technical solutions

· Have an innovative and disruptive mindset, constantly looking forward

· Experience managing and leading a digital team

· Proven influencing and collaboration skills

Skills/Competencies

· Good written and oral communication skills

· Attention to details

· Strong analytical skills

· Strong relationship building and networking skills

· Problem solving and decision-making skills

· Must be a good team player

· Must have good organizational and creative thinking skills

· Accountability

· Customer and client management skills

· The ability to manage a varied and complex workload

· Proven leadership and management skills

· Ability to control large budgets