Job Description
Employment Type: Fixed-Term Contract (612 months)
Role Overview
A specialist financial institution is seeking an experienced Head: Digital Business Transitioning to lead and accelerate its journey toward becoming a digitally enabled, future-ready organisation.
This role is a strategic transformation mandate, focused on designing and driving enterprise-wide digital change rather than operational IT delivery. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive digital business strategy that integrates technology, people, processes and data to improve efficiency, competitiveness and customer experience.
The role is offered on a 612 month fixed-term contract.
Key Responsibilities Digital Strategy & Transformation Leadership
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Diagnose the organisations market position, business value chain and digital maturity.
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Develop a clear digital business vision, blueprint and future-state architecture.
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Translate strategy into a bold, structured and achievable implementation roadmap.
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Drive enterprise-wide digital transformation initiatives aligned to business strategy.
Implementation & Delivery
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Define and sequence digital initiatives across front- and back-office environments.
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Develop digital business investment cases (quantitative and qualitative).
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Embed agile ways of working and modern delivery approaches.
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Track delivery of transformation milestones and measurable business outcomes.
Stakeholder Engagement & Change Enablement
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Engage extensively with executive and senior stakeholders across the organisation.
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Facilitate strategy, visioning and ideation workshops at Exco and Board level.
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Act as a change ambassador, shifting mindsets and driving adoption of digital solutions.
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Collaborate with internal and external partners to enable innovation.
Governance, Risk & Compliance
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Ensure governance, risk and compliance are embedded across digital programmes.
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Provide oversight for ethical and responsible use of emerging technologies.
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Ensure compliance with regulatory, cybersecurity and internal policy frameworks.
Minimum Requirements
Qualifications
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Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Business, or related field.
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Relevant international certifications (e.g. CISA or similar) will be advantageous.
Experience
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Extensive experience in digital strategy development and execution (15+ years overall).
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Proven track record delivering large-scale digital transformation initiatives.
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Strong experience in crafting digital investment and business cases.
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Demonstrated application of agile methodologies within large organisations.
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Senior-level experience engaging C-suite stakeholders and Boards.
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Previous application development experience is critical.
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Experience in shifting organisational mindsets and enabling change.
Ideal Candidate Profile
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A strategic, commercially minded digital leader with strong execution capability.
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Comfortable operating in complex, regulated environments.
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Highly credible at executive level with exceptional facilitation and communication skills.
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Delivery-focused, decisive, and resilient.
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Able to operate independently with minimal supervision.
If you are a seasoned digital transformation leader seeking a high-impact, strategic role with national significance, we encourage you to apply.
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