Senior Specialist : People Change Manager

Senior Specialist: People Change Manager

Apply remote type Hybrid locations Sandton time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday time left to apply End Date: April 22, (5 days left to apply) job requisition id R-Empowering Africa's tomorrow, together…one story at a time. With over 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

Salesforce People Change Manager

Manage the people-side of change on the CRM & Voice Programme to ensure adoption, embedment and proficient utilisation of the changes, to maximize benefits realization, value creation, and achievement of strategic outcomes.

Job Description High Level Changes include:

1. Drive accelerated change embedment, faster change adoption, and promote greater proficiency of the changes that impact colleagues on the Salesforce Platform.
2. The aim is to prepare the cluster and its businesses for change and to ensure consistency in execution to realize maximum benefits & ROI and to mitigate any negative impacts to both colleagues and customers.
3. Collaborate with key stakeholders, including IT, HR, and Enablement Heads, to understand system changes and their impact on various teams.
4. Foster strong relationships to ensure alignment and successful implementation.
5. Design and deliver clear, consistent, and targeted communication plans that address the needs and concerns of different employee groups throughout the change process.
6. Develop and execute comprehensive change management strategies tailored to support the adoption of new systems across the organization.
7. Identify potential resistance and proactively address concerns through coaching, feedback, and ongoing support.
8. Develop strategies to foster a positive attitude toward change and encourage system adoption.
9. Establish metrics to monitor the progress of system adoption and employee engagement.
10. Gather feedback and continuously refine change management approaches to ensure successful outcomes.
11. Ensure that change initiatives align with the organization's values and culture, reinforcing positive behavior and encouraging collaboration across teams.
12. Oversee the planning and execution of change management activities, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with project milestones.
13. Coordinate with project managers, journey leaders, and/or scrum leads, to integrate change management efforts with overall project plans.
14. Lead post-implementation reviews to assess the effectiveness of change management strategies.
15. Identify lessons learned and apply them to future initiatives to enhance change readiness within the organization.

Key Skills differentiator: People Change management experience on Large scale / complex tech-solutions initiatives, with specialty on resistance management and culture embedment. Ability to use Data Analytics to build dashboards and predictive analysis. Certified PCM accreditation.

Education: Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: 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, 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.

About Us

Absa Group Limited ("Absa Group") is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and is one of Africa's largest diversified financial services groups. Absa Group offers an integrated set of products and services across personal and business banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment management, and insurance.

Absa Group owns majority stakes in banks in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania (Absa Bank Tanzania and National Bank of Commerce), Uganda, and Zambia and has insurance operations in Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zambia.

Absa also has representative offices in China, Namibia, Nigeria, and the United States, as well as securities entities in the United Kingdom and the United States, along with technology support colleagues in the Czech Republic.