Strategy & Market Analyst at Kayode Tijani & Co. (Recruitment Consultants)

Job Grade Level:       Manager

Reports to:                 Executive Director

Job Accountabilities:

• Development and leadership for the Bank’s strategic practice
• Developing strategic solutions and plans that best fit the bank and clients’ needs.
• Sustaining brand identities through research and applying experience to uncover an in-depth knowledge of the organizational process, competitive threats and opportunities of the bank’s business.
• Collecting data on consumers, competitors and market place and consolidating information into actionable items, reports and presentations
•  Understanding business objectives and designing surveys to discover prospective customers’ preferences, needs to support the development of products to meet clients’ needs and preferences
• Compiling and analyzing statistical data using modern and traditional methods to collect and analyze it

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning and directing the bank’s strategic and long-range goals.
• Regularly conducts organizational reviews to identify strengths and weaknesses and to evaluate operational effectiveness and makes recommendations based on emerging trends, expansion opportunities, competitive threats, viability of outside business partners, and internal business process improvement.
• Formulate as well as assist the bank’s strategies to diversify in new products and other complementary products required by the markets and within the bank’s objects.
• Provide actionable suggestions for responding to new threats plus opportunities rising in the real estate development and mortgage industry.
• Assist annual planning process for arising Corporate Initiatives and Operating Framework.
• Provide oversight of continuing corporate initiatives every month.
• Carry out regular environmental scanning to ascertain new opportunities related to acquisitions, alliances, joint ventures and mergers.
• Analyze strategic rationale for all strategic business development opportunities.
• Suggest strategic business development initiatives and priorities.
• Regularly calculate internal as well as target the bank’s valuations and compared with expectations.
• Prepare the bank’s growth strategies.
• Conduct the bank’s portfolio optimization evaluation.
• Support business unit heads to facilitate strategic development process.
• Define and evaluate imperative bank’s new business development opportunities.
• Facilitate and implement transactions leading to joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions as well as divestitures.

Professional Requirements:

• University degree in any Business, Administration, or Social Science field
• A higher degree in Economics, Market Research/Analytics, Statistics, Business Administration or Corporate/ Strategic Management will also be an advantage
• Minimum of 5 years in management position in a reputable Mortgage bank or Financial Institution or Top flight consulting firm.