Manager - Business Strategy at MTN Nigeria

Reports To: Senior Manager - Business Strategy

Division: Strategy and Innovation

Mission:

• Support the organisation’s strategy development and review process
• Actively collaborate with stakeholders across the business to monitor and report delivery of strategic objectives, priorities, initiatives and KPIs 
• Support the cascading of Group and Opco strategic objectives, priorities and initiatives across the business in collaboration with Corporate Communications and other stakeholders  
• Support preparation and facilitation of Board and Leadership retreats by undertaking research, preparing executive presentations, guiding divisions in the preparation of required retreat documents, capturing highlights, preparing retreat reports, etc.

Description:

• Contribute to the development and/or evaluation of financial and business cases for relevant initiatives. 
• Financial modelling: work with multiple (often finance-related and non-related) sources of data, integrating fact-bases and assumptions to develop complex financial and operational models. 
• Track and report on the financial performance of strategic projects, ensuring adherence to project budget and schedule, as well as providing insights and recommendations for improvement where relevant 
• Develop in-depth understanding of the business and external market forces
• Provide an analytical mindset to solving complex business problems and provide relevant insights for Leadership to make business decisions.
• Focus on content development for initiatives and projects which are required to be incubated by the Strategy & Innovation team.  
• Ensure content and solutions are aligned to global best practice
• Facilitate diagnostics and problem-solving workshops, applying economic/ business principles and recognizing intricacies of complex problems, to develop innovative solutions.
• Deploy rigorous analytical and data synthesis skills; in particular develop decision support models to guide strategy and key operational decisions.
• Support the identification and framing of projects in response to market/industry dynamics, business unit and enterprise-wide priorities. 
• Articulate project scope, delivery requirement, business case requirements and implementation milestones
• Translate teams' discussions and decisions into effective presentations (tailored to audience and purpose)
• Work with Senior Management to prioritize initiatives within Strategy & Innovation to allocate effort to mission-critical areas
• Drive implementation of strategic initiatives and projects, ensuring the delivery of business objectives and goals
• Challenge senior business leaders and the status quo utilizing data and analytical capabilities
• Provide support to Management by demonstrating conceptual capability, problem solving skills, agility and environmental market awareness to improve business outcomes.
• Act as an effective change agent utilizing influence, stakeholder analysis and change management techniques

Education:

• A first degree in a related field
• Possession of Project Management certification and/or an MBA is advantageous.
• Fluent in English

Experience:

6 - 13 years’ experience which includes:

• Experience working on business transformation projects
• Minimum 4 years’ experience working in a global/multinational management consultancy (understanding emerging markets)
• Management experience is advantageous
• Advanced experience working with Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Project
• Creating strategy documents to address business problems
• Project management experience