Head: Business Development (C&B)

absa; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Absa Bank Limited in South Africa seeks a senior business development professional to design and implement a scalable operating model for growth. You will build relationships with industry leaders and regulators to unlock new ventures that align with the bank's strategy.

The role emphasizes delivering a strategic growth plan, leading teams, and ensuring strict adherence to risk and compliance policies across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and Professional Qualifications: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain professional relationships with industry leaders, regulators and partners.
• Champion and manage growth initiatives aligned with Absa Business unit strategy.
• Collect market intelligence to keep abreast of market developments.
• Coach, mentor and manage team members toward business objectives.
• Oversee implementation of Group Risk and Compliance requirements within the operating environment.

Skills

Relationship management

Business development

Market intelligence

People management

Risk & compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Business/Commerce/Management studies

Job description

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.

Job Summary

To develop a functional business development management operating model and framework in a broadly defined business functional strategy; enabling horizontal implementation and adoption. Selecting this role has a compensation & benefit impact in Mozambique. Please contact Reward for details.

Job Description

• Relationship Management: Establish and maintain professional relationships through networking with industry leaders, regulators and policy makers as well as business partners that are key in the development of new ventures
• Delivery Business Development: Champion and manage business bulk acquisition strategic plan in line with Absa Business unit strategy and understand customer needs in order to propose offerings fit for the market by analysing relevant supply/demand industry trends and/patterns
• Market Intelligence: Collect market intelligence through research by reading articles, publications, internet, word of mouth and networking on a daily basis to keep abreast of market developments
• People Management: Coach, mentor and manage team members toward driving business objectives and ensuring colleague development
• Business Risk and Compliance Management: Oversee the implementation of, and conformance to, Group Risk and Compliance requirements within the operating environment, in line with set risk appetite
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Education

Bachelors Degree and Professional Qualifications: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised