Asset Management: Change Consultant

Location

Role is based at the V&A Waterfront, Cape Town

Job Classification

This role is based at Nedgroup Investments.  Our website is : www.nedgroupinvestments.co.za

Nedgroup Investments is an award-winning global investment business with a growing presence in Europe. Nedgroup Investments offers a wide range of investment solutions for retail and institutional investors. Nedgroup Investments is a division of Nedbank Group Ltd, leveraging the investment and financial expertise of one of South Africa’s largest financial services groups. The Nedgroup Investments Best of Breed™ philosophy sees us partner with select fund managers who we believe are able to provide consistent long-term outperformance for our clients. These fund managers are experts in their field of specialisation and we tend to partner with them for long periods of time giving them sufficient opportunity to deliver on their mandate objectives. We obsess about long-term performance and our top priority is to deliver a superior investment experience for our clients.

Job Purpose

The purpose of a Consultant is to act as the strategic and operational bridge between the implementation of strategic initiatives and the people impacted by change. A Change Manager ensures that strategic initiatives are adopted by the business effectively, smoothly and with minimal disruption. 

This role focuses on designing and executing structured change strategies that align with business objectives, while addressing the human side of transformation through clear communication, stakeholder engagement, training, and support. Ultimately, the Change Manager’s purpose is to enable sustainable change by reducing resistance, fostering readiness, and ensuring that employees have the tools and confidence to embrace new ways of working, thereby securing the intended benefits of the change initiative

Job Responsibilities

Using AI develop a plan to foster a culture where staff are more tolerant and better able to adapt to fast paced change.
Engage with business stakeholders and team managers to build awareness around change management and their role in supporting teams to become more change resilient.
Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g., staff surveys etc.).
Participate and support corporate social responsibility initiatives for the achievement of key business strategies.
Understand and embrace the Nedbank vision and demonstrate the values through interaction with team and stakeholders.
Role model the competencies of change leadership to build change management capability
Identify change team members representative of the organization to maximize the delivery of sustainable change.
Consider the duration, impacted audiences, complexity of changes and organizational capability as well as informing the selection of an appropriate change strategy to conduct a change size and impact assessment.
Select Change interventions to optimize the shift required to progress the enrolment of stakeholders.
Conduct Stakeholder Analysis to determine an appropriate engagement approach and optimise participation and support for the planned change.
Create structured change management strategies aligned with organizational goals.
Define timelines, resources, and milestones.
Develop a change portal where business can access updates on in flight changes, learn more about the change and listen to podcasts and interviews with the strategy execution team and product owners.
Identify impacted groups and build engagement models.
Communicate the vision and benefits of change clearly and consistently. 
Compile change reports highlighting progress, issues and risks to key decision makers to ensure change governance and implementation progress
Influence practice by indicating the impact it has on organizational coherence
Conduct change impact analysis across processes, systems, and people.
Develop mitigation strategies for potential resistance or disruptions. 
Coordinate learning and development requirements for affected teams.
Engage with learning and development to create and disseminate training material.
Ensure readiness through coaching and reinforcement.

Job Responsibilities Continue

Coordinate communication requirements for affected teams.
Engage with marketing to create and disseminate communication to impacted stakeholders.
Track adoption metrics and report on success indicators.
Adjust plans based on feedback and evolving circumstances. 
organizational culture
Seek opportunities to improve business processes and systems by identifying and recommending effective ways to operate and adding value to Nedbank
Give advice on the improvement of change effectiveness
Build credible business partnerships through professionalism and quality of advice and leadership.
Engage various stakeholders deliberately and proactively through communication, collaboration and dedicating time
Influence and coach key stakeholders to enable effectiveness of change management.
Keep abreast of legislation and other industry changes that impact on role by reading the relevant newsletters; websites and attending sessions.
Improve personal capability and stay abreast of developments in field of expertise by identifying training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from managers.
Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities by ensuring all learning activities are completed; experience practiced, and certifications obtained and/or maintained within specified time frames.

People Specification

We believe in employing highly motivated, sharp and quality orientated people that thrive in a culture that celebrates and supports diversity within an environment that is creative, collaborative, challenging and dynamic.  Aligned to our core purpose of enabling our investors to achieve their investment goals, we are committed to enabling our staff achieve their full potential and long-term career growth at Nedgroup Investments. Specifically for this role, we are looking for:
High standard of personal presentation.
Self-motivated and well organised with an ability to adapt and tackle a wide variety of challenges.
Ability to deal with people both within the organisation and external customers

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Preferred Qualification

Post graduate degree in Industrial and Organisational Psychology or related (Bcom/BA Psychology)

Preferred Certifications

Preferred - Change Management certification (Prosci/HCMBok/Lean Change Management)

Minimum Experience Level

3 to 5 years experience in a Change Management role

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies

Employment Equity Statement

Preference will be given to indivduals from underrepresented groups.