Jaycee Bekker

Business Improvement Manager

Talent

Centurion, City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality800 ZAR/hourMember since 10 June 2025

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About

With over 20 years of experience across diverse industries, departments, and technologies, I specialize in driving business improvement to maximize return on investment. I excel at navigating complex projects, ensuring ongoing solution maintenance and user support, all within defined timeframes, budgets, and quality standards. I apply best-in-class methodologies and deliver lean, streamlined solutions that are clear, efficient, and sustainable.

Experience

Current functions include:

Data Governance and Policy Development

Establish data policies, standards, and frameworks to ensure data is accurate, secure, accessible, compliant and transformed as a pro-active business asset.
Implement data governance structures (e.g., data stewards, Data committees).
Regulatory compliance through Governance (e.g., POPIA, DAMA, DMBOK).

Data Strategy and Vision

Define and lead the enterprise data strategy aligned with business goals.
Promote a data-driven culture, ensuring data is used effectively in decision-making.
Identify opportunities to monetize or strategically leverage data.

Data Quality and Integrity

Ensure data quality, accuracy, completeness, consistency, and timeliness during end-to-end data life cycle.
Lead data cleansing, enrichment, and validation initiatives.
Develop KPIs for data quality and monitor ongoing performance.

Strategic Leadership & Stakeholder Management

Build and maintain strong relationships with board members, shareholders, and executive management.
Align business strategies with stakeholder needs and emerging market opportunities, through sound data governance and sustainable business improvement practices.
Champion new capabilities, systems integration, innovative business models, improved data-maturity,

Risk Management & Governance

Identify business risk pertaining to data and implement mitigation strategies.
Maintain compliance and report risk exposure to appropriate committees.
Develop disaster recovery and business continuity plans.

Project Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration

Define and deliver business system projects in alignment with group goals.
Lead change management for technology rollouts and ensure smooth transitions.
Collaborate across departments and with external partners to ensure delivery excellence.
Prioritizing Business Objectives for the data team, while breaking down departmental silos aimed at driving digital transformation that will benefit all.

People Development & Leadership

Inspire, coach, and mentor data and cross-functional teams.
Promote a high-performance culture and foster peer-to-peer accountability.
Conduct training and facilitate understanding of data's value across the business.

Communication & Adaptability

Translate complex data into clear insights for diverse audiences.
Tailor communication style to stakeholders and adjust to evolving business needs.
Balance long-term vision with agile, real-time problem-solving.