Job Summary
BUSINESS DESIGN AND ENGINEERING (BDE): The FORESIGHTING AND INNOVATION team is looking for a highly skilled results-driven professional with relevant academic competence, experience, and solid work values to join this dynamic team of seasoned professionals.
As a seasoned futurist or strategic foresight professional, you intuitively blend science and art, predicting, creating, and leading the probable, possible, and preferable futures.
Adopting a strategic approach and building on your executive-level engagement and facilitation capabilities and experience, you will apply your core Foresighting skills of Anticipation, Innovation, and Strategy, together with your business insight, to propose, influence, or alter strategies, goals, plans, and actions in support of the SARS Vision and enterprise strategy. Simultaneously applying your Leadership Action skills of Executing, Influencing, and Relating, you will seek to ensure that strategies and plans are mobilized and stakeholders are engaged, while applying steward leadership.
As part of the SARS Business Design and Engineering Fore-sighting and Innovation team, you will be responsible for conceptualizing and facilitating the adoption of new leading-edge 'Game Changer' concepts in support of the SARS product, process, segment, and service strategies.
You will apply your unique skill set to conduct research and benchmarking, participate in open collaboration networks, identify the organizational foresight and innovation focus areas, conceptualize business solutions across the process value chain, incubate chosen concepts through prototyping/piloting, and develop implementation roadmaps for adoption in the SARS business architecture and solutions landscape.
If you are fascinated by futuristic trends, passionate about radical improvement, and have a track record of conceptualizing business solutions from newly identified technology and business innovation trends in the financial services industry, we'd like to hear from you.
Job Purpose
To predict, create and lead the future SARS by applying the Foresighting skills of Anticipation, Innovation, and Strategy, to propose, influence, or alter the product, process, segment, and service strategies, goals, plans, and actions in support of the SARS Vision.
To leverage the foresight, innovation, and business insights to facilitate the identification and adoption of new leading-edge 'Game Changer' concepts through research and benchmarking, participation in open collaboration networks, crafting and socialisation of 'SARS of the Future' or 'Tax, Customs, and Excise 3.0' concepts, jointly identifying and conceptualizing key innovation focus areas, incubation of these concepts through prototyping/piloting, and development of implementation roadmaps for adoption in the SARS business architecture and solutions landscape.
To conduct strategic engagements at the executive level to facilitate the adoption of future innovation strategies, concepts, and solutions in support of the achievement of sustainable business results.
Minimum Requirements
Relevant Bachelor's Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7): Industrial Engineering, preferably augmented by a qualification or further studies in Future Studies, Fore-sighting or Innovation Research AND 8-10 years experience in a similar environment, of which 3-4 years must be at operational specialist level
OR
Senior Certificate (NQF 4) preferably augmented by a qualification or further studies in Future Studies, Fore-sighting or Innovation Research, AND 15 year's related experience, of which 3-4 years must be at the operational specialist level
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