Strategy Analyst at Alan & Grant Full Time

Job Title: Strategy Analyst

Location: Lagos

Job Summary

• As a member of the Strategy & Growth Execution (S&GE) department, you will support the development and execution of the strategy for the Company.
• You will assist with all efforts to measure and improve the performance of our operations as a department, Company and as a Group.
• He/She will be expected to analyse information and data to propose relevant recommendations for Management review and subsequent execution.
• This is a challenging position which requires critical and analytical thinking, problem-solving skills, a high level of personal initiative and the ability to work well in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities
Strategic Analysis:

• Support research, competitor benchmarking, industry intelligence, consumer knowledge and development of strategic initiatives
• Analyze data and provide meaningful insights and presentations including analysis, research findings, and key takeaway for decision making.
• Support business projects by creating and overseeing detailed plans for initiatives to ensure on-time, within scope and budget delivery.
• Assist with the planning, managing and monitoring activities for project/program management support
• Develop business and operating models addressing everything from a specific function to the entire Company & Group
• Support in building analytical models and performs regular financial, competitive, performance, and market analyses for the business in order to comprehensively value business opportunities and ensure well-founded strategies are prepared for Management.
• Conduct adhoc pieces of analysis and provide regular market intelligence for management review meetings
• Applies analytical rigor to define outcome measures, improve prioritization, increase agility in decisioning, improve ability to evaluate progress towards business outcomes, and to evaluate risks to strategic goals.
• Leverages advanced data-driven problem-solving techniques to manipulate and interpret business data. Translates findings into insights for strategy management and execution.
• Assist with defining and creating business processes, workflows, business rules and process improvement opportunities, and providing value creation reports on such endeavour.
• Perform certain analyses independently, as needed.

Strategic Management:

• Support the execution of strategic initiatives through the development of work plans, gathering and generation of relevant data, driving value creation analyses, and the development of actionable recommendations.
• Create and maintain strategic scorecard that monitor targets, KPIs, business and Group performance against and determine the effectiveness of the implemented strategies.
• Closely manage progress against objectives, highlighting roadblocks as soon as they arise and taking full personal ownership for high-quality execution of our Company & Group strategy.
• Execute functional process improvement initiatives and lead assigned projects.
• Gather relevant data and requirements to develop process mapping and business process improvement, performance dashboard, etc.
• Support the development of SOPs, manuals, training materials and other documents as needed to enable a successful implementation of projects
• Execute on workplans, deliver on key analyses and projects, including multiple types of market analysis, competitive analysis, internal financial analysis, financial modeling, and scenario planning
• Proactively pursue sources of data and insight needed to complete analysis and ensure pace of progress and quality of analysis are maintained in line with the expectations of the department.
• Adopt a learning mindset and take personal responsibility for continuous performance improvement, and for supporting the ongoing growth and success of the department against its broader objectives.

Qualification & Experience

• Relevant Bachelor’s Degree
• 2-3 years of relevant consulting experience in market research, strategy formulation and execution, project execution, business process improvement and data analysis.
• Experience with creating frameworks, problem solving, supporting transformation and change management
• Resilient and result driven, with great prospecting skills.
• Ability to think strategically and creatively with an innovative mindset that is constantly looking for ways to improve things.
• Must be an agent for positive change be able to juggle competing priorities
• Proven ability to build, lead and drive a highly motivated workforce for results.

Competencies:

• Demonstrable project management and strong organizational and planning skills.
• Strong analytical skills, including data analysis and problem-solving skills
• Strong interpersonal skills with a collaborative and flexible work style
• Excellent presentation, listening, written and verbal skills.
• Digitally savvy and advanced aptitude of Microsoft Office and work productivity tools.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.