Asset Management: Change Consultant

Role is based at the V&A Waterfront, Cape Town

This role is based at Nedgroup Investments. Our website is :

Nedgroup Investments is an award-winning global investment business with a growing presence in Europe. Nedgroup Investments offers a wide range of investment solutions for retail and institutional investors. Nedgroup Investments is a division of Nedbank Group Ltd, leveraging the investment and financial expertise of one of South Africa’s largest financial services groups. The Nedgroup Investments Best of Breed™ philosophy sees us partner with select fund managers who we believe are able to provide consistent long-term out performance for our clients.

These fund managers are experts in their field of specialisation and we tend to partner with them for long periods of time giving them sufficient opportunity to deliver on their mandate objectives. We obsess about long-term performance and our top priority is to deliver a superior investment experience for our clients.

The purpose of a Consultant is to act as the strategic and operational bridge between the implementation of strategic initiatives and the people impacted by change. A Change Manager ensures that strategic initiatives are adopted by the business effectively, smoothly and with minimal disruption.

This role focuses on designing and executing structured change strategies that align with business objectives, while addressing the human side of transformation through clear communication, stakeholder engagement, training, and support. Ultimately, the Change Manager’s purpose is to enable sustainable change by reducing resistance, fostering readiness, and ensuring that employees have the tools and confidence to embrace new ways of working, thereby securing the intended benefits of the change initiative

• Using AI develop a plan to foster a culture where staff are more tolerant and better able to adapt to fast paced change.
• Engage with business stakeholders and team managers to build awareness around change management and their role in supporting teams to become more change resilient.
• Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g., staff surveys etc.).
• Participate and support corporate social responsibility initiatives for the achievement of key business strategies.
• Understand and embrace the Nedbank vision and demonstrate the values through interaction with team and stakeholders.
• Role model the competencies of change leadership to build change management capability.
• Identify change team members representative of the organization to maximize the delivery of sustainable change.
• Consider the duration, impacted audiences, complexity of changes and organizational capability as well as informing the selection of an appropriate change strategy to conduct a change size and impact assessment.
• Select Change interventions to optimize the shift required to progress the enrolment of stakeholders.
• Conduct Stakeholder Analysis to determine an appropriate engagement approach and optimise participation and support for the planned change.
• Create structured change management strategies aligned with organisational goals.
• Define timelines, resources, and milestones.
• Develop a change portal where business can access updates on in-flight changes, learn more about the change and listen to podcasts and interviews with the strategy execution team and product owners.
• Identify impacted groups and build engagement models.
• Communicate the vision and benefits of change clearly and consistently.
• Compile change reports highlighting progress, issues and risks to key decision makers to ensure change governance and implementation progress.
• Influence practice by indicating the impact it has on organizational coherence.
• Conduct change impact analysis across processes, systems, and people.
• Develop mitigation strategies for potential resistance or disruptions.
• Coordinate learning and development requirements for affected teams.
• Engage with learning and development to create and disseminate training material.
• Ensure readiness through coaching and…