Business Service Lead

Standard Bank of South Africa Limited; Douglas; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Standard Bank of South Africa Limited is seeking an experienced Delivery Enablement lead to drive lifecycle activities for business IT services in a global portfolio. You will define services, set strategy, and plan roadmaps covering non-functional requirements with cross‑functional teams.

The role requires 8–10 years in delivery enablement, strong business partner and financial analytics skills, and expertise in agile, lean, and supplier management.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years experience in Delivery Enablement.
• Business Partner service and support expertise and knowledge.
• Financial analysis knowledge and knowledge of service pricing methods and techniques.
• Global mind-set with the ability to develop strategy and translate it into actions and deliverables; Strong understanding of the business climate and technology needs in company locations globally.
• Agile working practices and LEAN & SCRUM proficiency.
• Exposure and knowledge of all aspects of ICT management and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Analyse trends relating to performance and stability of services; identify and recommend improvements with Product Owner and Release Train Engineer.
• Collaborate with Solution Architecture to support product deployment and assess risks of changes.
• Drive adjustments to vendor contracts to cater for growth and remediation; manage resources, hardware and licences.
• Ensure stakeholders understand expected level of service; communicate expectations regularly.
• Direct external strategic partners and 3rd party suppliers; negotiate contracts within mandate with procurement.
• Articulating information
• Checking things
• Developing strategies
• Exploring possibilities
• Following procedures
• Generating ideas
• Making decisions
• Providing insights
• Showing composure
• Team working
• Upholding standards
• Information security management
• Knowledge of Banking & Financial Service
• Service Management Processes
• Vendor Evaluation and Management.

Skills

Delivery Enablement

Business Partner service

Financial analysis

Service pricing

Global mindset

Agile / Lean / Scrum

ICT management

Job description

Business Segment: Personal & Private Banking

Job Type: Full-time

Compensation: GBP 60,000 - 70,000 - yearly

Proactively drives all lifecycle activities relating to business IT services in the portfolio in consultation with the Product Owner, supported by Feature and Component teams and the Release Train Engineer. Formally defining the service (understanding all applications, systems, vendors etc. that form part of service); setting the service strategy, and planning roadmaps that will cover non-functional requirements and improvement of service.

Qualifications

Experience Required :

• 8-10 years experience in Delivery Enablement
• Require Business Partner service and support expertise and knowledge. Financial analysis knowledge and knowledge of service pricing methods and techniques. Global mind-set with the ability to develop strategy and translate it into actions and deliverables; Strong understanding of the business climate and technology needs in company locations globally, Agile working practices and LEAN & SCRUM proficiency. Exposure and knowledge of all aspects of ICT management and delivery.

Key Outputs :

• Analyse the trends relating to performance and stability of individual services; identifying and making recommendations for incremental improvement by engaging with the Product Owner/Manager; Release Train Engineer (RTE) and other program level parties and injecting items into the backlog.
• Liaise with Solution Architecture with regards changes and enablers required to successfully support the product deployment. Assess and communicate service risks and the potential impact of planned production changes (planned release train changes or infrastructure changes).
• Collaborate with feature teams to drive out adjustments to vendor contracts to cater for future growth and remediation, taking into account items such as resources, Hardware and licences to ensure that service offerings are in line with contracted SLA/MSA. Collaborate with other Program Portfolios on dependencies and cross-organisational initiatives, participating in the relevant guild.
• Ensure that all stakeholders (IT and Business Partners) have a clear and unambiguous expectation of the level of service to be delivered by communicating expectations regularly.
• Direct external strategic partners and 3rd party suppliers influencing their contribution to be fit for purpose for the Standard Bank Group. Negotiate, approve contracts or agreements with external parties, within authorised mandate, in consultation with procurement/vendor management negotiate.
• Articulating Information
• Checking Things
• Developing Strategies
• Exploring Possibilities
• Following Procedures
• Generating Ideas
• Making Decisions
• Providing Insights
• Showing Composure
• Team Working
• Upholding Standards
• Information Security Management
• Knowledge of Banking & Financial Service
• Service Management Processes
• Vendor Evaluation and Management.

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Additional Information

Salary range

GBP 60,000 to GBP 70,000

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