Strategy Analyst

Reporting to the Senior Manager-Strategy the role holder will support the strategy team in steering strategy processes, managing records for strategic decisions, reviewing cluster strategy plans, and driving key strategic initiatives and missions  while also contributing to broader strategic projects as assigned.

• 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.

 

• 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.

How to Apply. If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience, kindly proceed to create/ update your candidate profile on the recruitment portal and then Click on the apply button. Remember to attach your resume.
 

We are the leading telecommunication company in East Africa. Our purpose is to transform lives by connecting people to people, people to opportunities and people to information. We keep over 42 million customers connected and play a critical role in the society, supporting over one million jobs both directly and indirectly while our total economic value was estimated at KES 362 Billion ($ 3.2 billion) for the 12 months through March 2021. We are listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) and with annual revenues of close to KES 298 Billion ($2.5 billion) as at March 2022. We were founded in 1997 as a fully owned subsidiary of Telkom Kenya before a 40 percent acquisition by Vodafone Group PLC in May 2000, and a public offering of 25 percent shares through the NSE in 2008. Under the management of Vodafone Group PLC, we welcomed Michael Joseph, as our first CEO, a few months later in July of 2000. He led the company’s growth to accommodate 16.71 million subscribers from the previous 20,000, largely owing to innovative products like M-PESA in 2007.