Business Intelligence Strategist at RusselSmith Group

Job Code: RS-BSO-001
Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Description
Essential duties and responsibilities:

•     Provides executive management with up to date strategic trends in political, economic, social, business trends in the industry and analyze how it will impact the organization.
•     Research new business trends and make recommendations as regards best practices in use by global organizations
•     Identify sources of data needed for key business problems and their locations, structure, and accessibility and readiness for aggregations
•     Prepare visualizations of data in order to explain and persuade
•     Provides information on the ever changing needs and expectations of the customer and implement need strategies on globally acceptable customer satisfaction trends which includes but not limited to; analyzing changes within the broader industry the organization operates within, researching new alliances, new
•     market entrants, new services.
•     Provides detailed information on customer survey and other unsaid observations made as regards their view of the organization and seeking areas of improvement.
•     Track competitors strategy as it relates to finance, business, marketing, human resources, promotion, culture, structure, alliances, technology etc.
•     Keep up to date on effective strategies which include participating in the creative way of strategic planning that results in stakeholder’s buy-in
•     Ensures the use of a balanced score card in strategy sessions in order to balance IQ, EQ and SQ to ensure people are excited and inspired while they develop new powerful strategies.
•     Works closely with departments to ensure that all planning and measurement system use the same terminology and language and are implemented within the system.
•     Ensure departments provide their objectives and this goals are applied to the strategic planning, budgeting, performance management and reports
•     Plans and ensure measurement are developed and implemented within the system.
•     Ensures that all data collected from survey are accurate and reliable.

Requirement
Skills Required:

•     Must be trustworthy and must keep business issues confidential
•     Willingness and desire to continuously learn new techniques
•     Innovative and has good sense of humor
•     Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.
•     Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
•     Strong interpersonal and oral communication skills.
•     Good communication(oral and written) skills
•     Attentive to details
•     Good team spirit and project management skills
•     Good people management and relationship skills
•     Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Tools (i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
•     Good interpersonal and relational skills
•     Good reasoning skills; presentation skills; multi-tasking skills and organizational skills
•     Strong analytical and data analysis skills

Educational Qualification

•     A university degree in Business Management is an added advantage
•     Advanced and strategic thinking skills
•     Ability to drive components of large multi-functional projects
•     Good leadership skills
•     Strong analytical and quantitative skills such as statistics and data analysis
•     Good reasoning skills and ability to adapt quickly
•     Data Analysis skills using Excel, PowerPoint, and Access
•     Ability to work with spreadsheets and other quantitative modeling
•     Ability to build relationships at all levels within an organization
•     Ability to discuss & present complex strategic topics at a senior management level
•     Good project management and organizational skills