Strategy Analyst at Safaricom Kenya

Responsibilities

• Uphold the company code of conduct, policies and procedures, ensuring integrity and accountability in every aspect of your work.
• All employees have a responsibility to adhere to safety, health, and wellbeing  policies, guidelines and procedures in all actions and decisions.
• Provide support to the strategy formulation process through the Safaricom Tools for Strategy (STS) and/or other recognized tools by researching and collating initial inputs as directed by the Senior Manager Strategy.
• Play a key role in the strategy cascade and mission execution process across the organization whilst working closely with other internal support clusters such as and not limited to; Marketing, legal and regulatory, finance, Customer Experience etc.
• Undertake research and analysis as required by Senior Manager Strategy.
• Manage the records for key strategic decisions made by EXCOM and follow through on tracking and implementation.
• Review Cluster long-range strategy in liaison with Cluster strategy champions and provide monthly mission status reports on time.
• Part of cross functional team to drive key strategic initiatives. 
• Manage the strategy governance calendar.
• Drive innovation by identifying and implementing best practices and continuously seeking ways to improve processes and outcomes.

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
Business Competencies:

Working With Others

• Consciously takes steps to make the most of every conversation/interaction. 
• Identifies people’s needs, interests and motives to be able to influence the decisions they make.
• Communicates simply to excite and engage people.
• Pro-actively adapts own style and approach to build rapport, and work with others more effectively. 
• Builds and maintains strong relationships and networks while providing value add insights.

Operational Excellence

• Targets effort and resources on high-value, high impact activity.   
• Focuses on achieving maximum performance and driving continuous improvement .
• Thinks about processes and problems cross-functionally and end-to-end.
• Uses knowledge of products, technology, process, systems and policy to solve problems.

Creativity and Innovation

• Finds creative ways to exploit opportunities and solve problems. 
• Takes risks and pushes what is possible. 
• Experiments with unorthodox approaches.

Business Know-how

• Uses data and research to make decisions that are competitively and financially robust.
• Balances current and future needs. 
• Thinks and acts like an extreme owner of the business.  
• Acts in line with legal, regulatory, professional and ethical standards.

Working With Change

• Responds flexibly to changing situations. 
• Manages the business and people aspects of change to drive performance.

Project and Programme Management

• Defines scope and deliverables in terms of time, cost, quality and business benefit. 
• Schedules activity and identifies resource needs, dependencies and synergies.   
• Evaluates progress, mitigates risks and addresses issues.

Functional Competencies:
Actionable Insights

• Uses a range of research and data analysis techniques to identify changes in the operating environment  that have a direct impact on business.
• Translates data into insights that identify opportunities and highlights threats to the business .
• Uses Data mining to understand trends and  use business models to give insights into the findings.

Innovative Propositions

• Coordinates the innovation governance process through stakeholder engagement and management of the innovation roadmap and project management.
• Drives  the process of ideation both internally and externally by providing support through tools, techniques and processes.

Planning and control

• Steers business performance by setting strategic goals. 
• Translates strategies into actionable plans for divisions.
• Monitors performance metrics  to determine the health of the business.
• Responsible for project governance and and tracking resources effectively.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Economics, Finance or a relevant field in strategy.
• Minimum of 4 years’ work experience in strategy, finance or a commercial role.
• Ability to think broadly to solve business problems.
• Demonstrated strong ability to analyze data, identify trends and make data-driven decisions. 
• Demonstrated initiative and self-drive.
• Demonstrated abilities to manage relationships, including influencing and negotiation skills.
• Ability to work cross-functionally and collaboratively.
• Ability to interact with leadership at all levels of the organization.
• Concise and clear verbal and written communication skills.