Strategy & Business Intelligence Analyst

ONBOARDING YOU TO THE COMPANY

At Nexans our global vision is to electrify the future. Our Corporate Functions play a vital role in enabling this transformation—supporting strategic decision-making, innovation, sustainability, and operational excellence across the entire Group.

Nexans recognises the differences that make each employee valuable and unique. Diversity is key to performance and to our global ambition to lead the world in the energy transition towards a sustainable planet. This we know from experience. All differences are appreciated and respected at Nexans. As a result, you will be an active part of a multinational organisation where we cultivate the culture of sharing your unique point of view. This is why we encourage diversity in our recruitment – Bring yours to Nexans, it is welcome! #PowerToInnovate #PowerToImpact #PowerToCare

Nexans is a global leading power cable solution provider historically, positioned mainly on the electrification market.

 

It is currently a member of the CAC Mid 60 stock index. It has an industrial presence in nearly 42 countries, over 28,000 employees and sales of around €8,5 billion a year (2024 - at current metal prices) with an EBITDA of €805M. As a global player in the cable industry, Nexans is behind the scene delivering the innovative services and resilient products that carry thousands of watts of energy per second around the world. Millions of homes, cities, businesses are powered every day by Nexans’ high quality sustainable cabling solutions.

 

As the pace of the world electrification is increasing, Nexans will now focus on one purpose: Electrify the Future.

 

With the 25-28 Equity Story, Nexans is now opening its third chapter to amplify profitable growth in Electrification, accelerating the sustainable revolution, and scaling new heights. The new strategic roadmap will focus on amplifying its position in Electrification through new tech solutions, and new market segments, amplified by artificial intelligence.

 

 

In a context of a fast moving macro & geopolitical environment, Nexans is strengthening its Business Intelligence capacities to execute its 25-28 ambition.

 

The strategy & Business Intelligence is in charge of monitoring and assess potential impacts of key trends & shifts (e.g. macroeconomic, geopolitical, environmental, technological evolutions…)

 

 

Why join Nexans ?

 

• The role will be in close collaboration to business executives from across the world
• A great opportunity to understand and assess the impact of key geopolitical, economic, environmental shifts for a global industrial group, supporting the energy transition
• An opportunity to join strategic functions within a leading global industrial group with a France-based decision center

 

This role will involve working in close collaboration to the Chief of Staff to :

1. Perform in depth strategic research, analyses for the Chief of Staff, the CEO and Excom members covering broad range of topics such as:

- New regulations impacts

- Industrial strategy definition

- Business units turnaround and optimization

- Market analysis & Macro economics evolution modelling

 

2. Contribute to the strategic monitoring efforts by gathering, analyzing, and synthesizing market and competitor data

3.Create detailed reports and presentations that summarize findings and provide actionable intelligence to management.

4.Support the Chief of Staff in her day-to-day activities

 

 

We are looking for talented people:

• Strong interest in geopolitics, macro economy and energy transition
• Motivated, self-driven, interested in learning new concepts and ideas
• Problem solver, good ability to analyze issues, break problems down in a structured way, and draw insights
• Impact oriented, has self-drive to identify key issues/root causes and develop solutions
• Strong interpersonal skills combined with strong communication skills: able to influence and convince her/his audience
• Good written and oral communication; can easily convey messages in a concise way
• Excellent synthesis and presentation skills
• Tier 1 Business School (HEC, ESSEC, ESCP, EM Lyon, Edhec), Engineers Schools (X, Centrale Supélec, Mines Paris, Telecom Paris, ENS) or Sciences Po Paris
• End-of-course internship (>12 months experience)
• Fluent English oral and writing skills
• A first experience in strategy consulting or within a group strategy function, investment bank, audit / transaction services is a plus
• Proven presentation skills 

OUR GROWTH CULTURE

Among our employees we share the same values- we are pioneers of the energy transition, dedicated to deliver to the highest standards of performance united to achieve our ambitious goal. 

At the individual level our growth culture is built on trust and collaboration.  We wish to welcome you as a valuable member of our team. To enable impact we believe in autonomy at the local level at same time as we encourage knowledge sharing within our global engineering competence. 

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