Craig Du Toit Email & Phone Number

South Africa

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Senior manager accountable for the technical strategy and operations of multiple core Absa departments, including Absa Group Legal, Absa Corporate Affairs (Marketing), and Absa's Change Enablement office (ePMO).
• Built and managed a high performance team with mature DevOps roles and practices;
• Aligned with product and business managers to create and enable marketing technology strategies;
• Migrated full stack to AWS cloud;
• Significant costs savings across all areas while achieving improvements in performance and user satisfaction;
• Introduced and owned Absa's Domain Management policy and management processes in collaboration with risk, cyber security, networks, legal, and brand teams;

Johannesburg

• Directed the group’s R280m (£17m) technology effort to remove the presence of Barclays from the South African marketplace;
• Responsibilities across all product and functional areas of the organization;
• Collaborated with marketing and brand leadership (including BAGL CMO) to translate marketing separation requirements (transfer) and strategy objectives (transform) into technical reality with high conformity;
• Focused on de-risking the integrated delivery environment:
• Designed and implemented appropriate controls to manage changes to ~40,000 items by ~1,400 analysts, developers, project managers, and business contributors working in 56 work packages across 312 systems, including.
• Participated as a member of senior forums for both technology and marketing, as well as steering committees and other enabling forums and working groups for the wider separation programme (e.g. change council);

Johannesburg

• Ownership and Development of PM and BA Centres of Excellence in Absa's Wealth and Investment Management and Insurance PMO;
• Define Management Control Approach;
• Define and establish Ways of Work for 160+ Strategic Change staff (Contract & FTE);
• Review and establish effective project controls and Quality Assurance methods and standards;
• Design, development and facilitation of Training Curriculum for 100+ staff members;Various Additional Responsibilities, including:
• Establishing Rest of Africa Strategic Change Portfolio (Mar-Jun15);

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Responsible for driving innovative yet pragmatic strategic change in Absa's Life insurance division.Responsibilities included:
• Business Architecture Design and Execution Plan for Life Operating Model;
• Bancassurance Business Process Framework and Standardised Process Pack;
• Management of Business Analyst team (FTE's & Contractors);
• Management of Project Management team (FTE's & Contractors);
• Management of Exception and Control team (FTE's & Contractors);

Johannebsurg

• Dual-role as Head of the Business Efficiency Unit, and senior business Project Manager Absa Life.
• Business Architect and Manager of strategic Change;
• Management of process analysis team and "design of work" portfolio.

• Product Development and "Take-to-Market" responsibilities for Absa's Long-Term Insurance and Life-Wrapped Investments (incl. Cell Captives).
• Member of the Absa Group Marketing Management Committee (Group Marketing Manco);
• Member of Absa Life Operating and Management Committee’s (OpsCo and Manco);
• Management of relationship with key agencies (strategy, brand, digital and other);
• Responsible during period that saw company become 5th biggest life insurer by NBEV;
• Winner of Group (40,000+ employees) innovation award (LifeMap);

Johannesburg

Project and Product development of Absa Life flagship risk offerings.Compliance Project and bundled bancassurance product research

Johannesburg, South Afrcia

Financial Services NCA Compliance Project Manager for Absa covering Absa Insurance, Investment, and Trust product review and revision.

Johannesburg

Embedded Public Media Technologies, inlcuding SupaJuke Media Systems.

London, United Kingdom

Prince2Esselte (Primary)T Rowe Price

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Education record

Pmp

Prince2

Atern Dsdm Agile

Scrum Master