Chief of Staff

Let's Write Africa's Story Together!

Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.

• Strategy Cycle & Execution: Facilitate the translation of the L&S Cluster Strategy into actionable plans with executives, and track delivery of strategic projects through accountable owners. Coordinate the strategy cycle, including the Exco strategy offsite, cluster strategy engagements, and strategy briefs to business units, ensuring alignment with CEO priorities.

• Finance & Reporting Cycle: Coordinate the annual business planning, performance reviews, results reporting, and investor engagement cycle in partnership with Finance, bringing the CEO’s perspective and ensuring timely delivery by accountable teams.

• Governance Cycle: Coordinate the L&S Exco, Cluster Board, and support the CEO’s effectiveness at OML Board cycles end-to-end, developing and working with executives and governance teams to ensure agendas, materials, and follow-through align with strategic priorities.

• Capital Cycle: Partner with the office of the L&S CFO to ensure execution and tracking of the Capital Strategy, Deal Forum outcomes, and M&A processes, working with the relevant executives to ensure CEO input and decisions are well prepared and actioned.

• CEO Office Operations & Materials: Prepare CEO materials, including memos, slides, talking points, and texts. Review and sign off materials prepared by others, and curate items requiring CEO review, input, or consumption, directing matters to other executives where appropriate. Work closely with the CEO's PA to ensure smooth operations and proactively address any issues that arise.

• Strategic Advisory, Partnership & Stakeholder Alignment: Act as a trusted advisor to the CEO, providing insights, challenging assumptions, and serving as an escalation point for key business matters. Connect people across the business, aligning executives and internal and external stakeholders up to top management, and enabling them to work together to deliver CEO priorities.

• The role is office-based, with an in-office presence expected five days a week, aligned to the CEO’s requirements.

• Periodic travel may be required on business and CEO commitments.

• Success in this role requires a self-directed, resourceful individual who operates effectively with minimal supervision, demonstrating strong problem-solving ability amidst ambiguity, and proactively sources information and solutions.

• The dynamic and fast-paced nature of the CEO’s agenda requires exceptional agility, including the ability to deliver high-quality outputs under tight deadlines and maintain availability outside traditional working hours when critical matters arise.

• The role extends beyond CEO support, encompassing review and quality assurance of materials across the organisation to ensure strategic alignment and excellence in all outputs reaching the CEO.

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.

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