Branch Manager (Channel Manager: Sales and Service)

1001 Absa Bank; Lydenburg; Sur place; ZAR 900 000 - 1 200 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Absa Bank seeks a Channel Manager: Sales and Service to lead a high‑performing branch network and multiple service points in a key market. You will drive growth, champion digital adoption, and uphold governance and operational excellence while developing future leaders.

The role requires strategic leadership, risk and compliance oversight and a passion for community engagement, customer experience, and a strong financial performance culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor`s Degrees in Banking or related高级
• Business Administration background beneficial

Responsabilités

• Translate regional and national strategy into branch execution.
• Drive transformation, digital adoption, and inclusion initiatives.
• Position the branch as a trusted financial partner in the community.
• Full Branch P&L accountability and profitability targets.
• Lead senior branch leadership and develop succession plans.
• Ensure strong control environments and regulatory compliance.
• Engage key clients and community partners.
• Deliver exceptional in-branch customer experiences.

Formation

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Banking

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business Administration

Description du poste

Empowering Africa's tomorrow, together…one story at a time. With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group. Belonging at Absa Absa is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from suitably qualified individuals from diverse backgrounds. In support of our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) commitments and Employment Equity objectives, preference may be given to candidates from underrepresented designated groups, including persons with disabilities. We encourage applicants who may require reasonable accommodation during the recruitment process to let us know so that appropriate support can be provided.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated Branch Manager to lead a complex branch and multiple service points within a strategically important market. This is an opportunity to take ownership of a significant business area, lead high-performing teams, drive commercial growth, champion digital innovation, and become a respected leader within your community. While traditionally known as a Branch Manager, this role is now referred to as a Channel Manager: Sales and Service within Absa. As a Channel Manager: Sales and Service you will be responsible for delivering sustainable business growth, exceptional customer experience, strong governance, and operational excellence, while developing future leaders and advancing the bank's transformation agenda. We are seeking an experienced Channel Manager: Sales and Service to lead a customer-facing sales and service operation, driving business growth, operational excellence, and client-centric outcomes. This is an exciting opportunity for a commercially astute leader who thrives in a fast-paced, regulated financial services environment and is passionate about developing people, strengthening client relationships, and achieving outstanding business results.

Job Description

Key Focus Areas

Lead nodal operations with accountability for people, process, and performance. Drive commercial growth and service excellence across multiple SSO's. Oversee DHA, MVNO functions, ensuring efficient verification and ID smart card issuing. Strengthen compliance and operational integrity in civic services. Inspire and empower teams to deliver exceptional customer experiences. Expand market presence through oversight of RIB and External sales. Harness technology to optimize efficiency and innovation. Build resilient, high-performing teams aligned to strategic goals. Ensure delivery of all performance targets with commercial focus. Champion operational leadership that advances Africa's service landscape.

Accountabilities

• Strategic Leadership
  • Translate regional and national strategy into branch execution
  • Drive transformation, digital adoption, and inclusion initiatives
  • Position the branch as a trusted financial partner in the community
• Business Performance
  • Full Branch P&L accountability (where applicable)
  • Deliver growth, profitability, and productivity targets
  • Optimise multi-channel and integrated service models
• People & Culture
  • Lead senior branch leadership and management teams
  • Build a leadership pipeline and succession plans
  • Foster ethical leadership, engagement, and accountability
• Risk, Compliance & Governance
  • Overall accountability for branch risk, conduct, and regulatory compliance
  • Manage audits, governance forums, and material risk events
  • Ensure strong control environments and TCF adherence
• External & Internal Stakeholder Management
  • Engage key clients, community structures, and external partners
  • Act as a brand ambassador for the bank
• Customer Experience
  • Deliver a consistently exceptional in-branch customer experience by proactively welcoming, guiding, and supporting customers
  • Promote efficient service, alternative banking channels, Upholding Absa's service standards, image, and brand in a safe, professional, and well-managed branch environment

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Banking
• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business Administration

At Absa, our story is not a single narrative. It's thousands of individual journeys unfolding across Africa and beyond. From colleagues serving customers in local communities to teams shaping financial solutions across borders, Absa is built on people who bring their lived experiences, ambitions and perspectives into the workplace every day.

Whether you're starting your career, a seasoned leader or somewhere in between, your contribution is seen, valued and connected to something bigger.

Our presence across Africa – which spans personal and business banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment management, and insurance – exists because of the people who show up in their roles with purpose.

Across Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, our colleagues are shaping what Absa becomes in each market.

Beyond the continent, teams in global offices and a technology hub support and extend the stories that prove that African talent can lead, influence and innovate on the global stage.

At Absa, your story matters because progress is driven by human experience, not hierarchy. When people are enabled to bring their whole selves to work, they don't just build careers. They help shape the future of Africa's financial services landscape.