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With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
To lead and direct the strategic delivery of the Agri coverage portfolios across SA and Pan Africa. Suited to a seasoned Coverage Banker with 15 years plus Investment/Corporate Banking experience with specific focus on the Agri sector. Must demonstrate leadership and managerial capability and evidence strong relationships in the Agri market.
Job Description
Drive Business performance
Drive new business growth in CIB Agri segments in line with the Bank’s commercial growth aspirations. Actively monitor performance against the scorecard, identify root causes of nonperformance and develop and implement remediation plans with relevant stakeholders across the value chain.
Strategy Development and execution:
Use the overall CIB and Sector strategy as a base to develop a Pan African Sector strategy and collaborate with segment, international office and product heads to ensure sector and product strategies are aligned to and meet market needs.
Customer Experience:
Accountable for driving and monitoring customer experience standards, remediating service failures and identifying lead indicators of service issues and collaborate Segment, Sector and Product Heads to develop corrective actions to proactively remediate issues to uphold a high level of customer experience.
People and Culture:
Accountable for strategic workforce planning, balancing short and long-terms strategic sourcing requirements to ensure that the team is appropriately resourced to meet demand, compliance and customer experience requirements. The abovementioned includes the development of staff as well as succession planning.
Control:
Accountable for ensuring an optimal and compliant control environment within CIB that appropriately balances risk appetites and customer demand with the need to grow to achieve the financial ambitions and balance sheet aspirations of CIB, effectively addressing client needs during this process.
Thought Leadership: Is a thought leader and a specialist with respect to the relevant sector. Drives the marketing and communication at senior levels including industry bodies. Fosters key Client sector relationships at CEO and CFO level
Education
Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised
Absa Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Absa Group and has not been reviewed or approved by Absa Group.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical aid, group life, disability, and funeral cover are described as comprehensive, with features such as terminal‑illness advances and beneficiary grocery benefits. Wellness and assistance offerings support overall financial and personal wellbeing.
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Retirement Support — A pension fund and group retirement arrangements are positioned as core benefits within fixed remuneration. Retirement coverage is embedded alongside other protections as part of standard employment.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Employee share‑ownership (eKhaya) and equity‑linked awards broaden wealth‑sharing, with dividends or cash‑equivalent participation in some markets. This provides longer‑term value beyond base pay.
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Absa Group Limited (Absa) has forged a new way of getting things done, driven by bravery and passion, with the readiness to realise growth on the African continent and beyond. We’re a truly African brand, inspired by the people we serve in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. We also have representative offices in China, Namibia, Nigeria and the United States, as well as securities entities in the United Kingdom and the United States, along with technology support colleagues in the Czech Republic.
