Senior Automation Solution Manager

Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Contact

Requisition nr: 141783
Talent Acquisition Specialist: Tshego Semenya
Location: 135 Rivonia Road, Sandown
Closing date: 11 September 2025

Cluster

Nedbank, Personal and Private Banking

Career Stream

Leadership Pipeline

Position

Senior Automation Solution Manager

Why join our team!

Step into a leadership role within one of the bank’s most dynamic and high-performing teams. As the Senior Automation Solution Manager, you’ll lead strategic automation initiatives across Personal and Private Banking, managing a team of experienced project managers and driving delivery excellence. This role offers exposure to executive-level stakeholders, cutting-edge technologies like Blue Prism, and a portfolio of complex, high-impact projects. With a hybrid work model, vibrant team culture, and a track record of nearly R1 billion in business benefits, this is a rare opportunity to shape the future of automation in a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment.

Job Purpose

To plan; direct and coordinate the activities of their own projects and the projects of their team to ensure that project goals are accomplished.Ensure the delivery of projects through enabling of the project teams

Job Responsibilities

• Determine goals, time frame, funding limitations, and procedures for accomplishing project staffing requirements and allocation of resources.
• Conduct stakeholder management as a discipline embedded in the capability of project managers and in all project plans for the Business Unit.
• Manage each stakeholder group actively through the change cycle.
• Conduct business change impact across process, systems and technology as per the change implementation plan.
• Conduct and assist the team with technical changes and change management
• Manage project by ensuring roles, behaviors and operations are understood and strategies defined in project schedule.
• Keep clients informed through coaching the clients and management where processes and systems are changed.
• Ensure change management processes are adhered to for all projects in conjunction with client.
• Ensure effective stakeholder relationship management.
• Build trusting relationships with all stakeholders.
• Ensure optimal team delivery by considering and making amendments to processes, structures, operating models and business plans.
• Collaborate across Business Units and facilitate mutually beneficial outcomes across the stakeholders.
• Manage capacity across project based on priority and trade-offs. Manager the capacity of the project managers in their team and negotiate where capacity constraints occur.
• Resolve obstacles and seek executive resolution of complex high impact project deviation.
• Participate in project management definition and strategy.
• Manage portfolio by ensuring that the project portfolio reflects alignment with the Group Architecture roadmap or business three-year plans.
• Ensure adherence to project risk management standards and enterprise organizational compliance.
• Ensure team efficiency Ensure satisfactory post implementation review.
• Ensure resources are correctly allocated based on their portfolio and skill level against agreed industry benchmark
• Regulate Steerco Packs and Exco Packs for distribution for executives
• Apply Agile project management skills
• An understanding of Automation and Automation practices
• Preferably Blue Prism/Automation knowledge and Experience 

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Preferred Qualification

• Honours degree

Essential Certifications

Minimum Experience Level

• 5-10 years experience in project management environment
• 2-3 years working with highly complex and large projects
• 1-2 years supervisory or line management experience

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Disclaimer

Preference will be given to candidates from the underrepresented groups

Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566