Corporate Strategy Associate
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Job Summary
Our client is a leading lifestyle and interior solutions company representing globally recognized home and office fitting brands in Nigeria.
They are seeking to hire a Corporate Strategy Associate to support the enterprise in making clear data-informed and actionable strategic choices by contributing to strategic insight generation strategy development execution monitoring performance management and enterprise alignment.
The role combines analytical rigor strategic synthesis and execution discipline leveraging advanced analytics and AI tools to accelerate insight while maintaining strong human judgment contextual understanding and accountability.
The Ideal candidate will be expected to:
- Move beyond analysis to interpretation and implications
- Support decision-making not just documentation
- Work closely with senior stakeholders on enterprise-level priorities
- Use AI and data tools responsibly to enhance speed and quality of insights
Job Responsibilities
Strategic Research & Insight
- Conduct targeted market industry competitive and macro-trend analysis to support strategic decisions
- Support internal performance and capability assessments across business units and functions
- Identify material strategic risks opportunities and emerging issues requiring leadership attention
- Use data analytics and AI-enabled tools to accelerate research while applying human judgment to validate relevance and implications
- Translate analysis into clear insights strategic implications and hypotheses not just data summaries
Strategy Development & Execution Support
- Support the translation of corporate vision ambition and priorities into actionable strategic initiatives
- Assist in evaluating strategic options scenarios and trade-offs aligned with enterprise objectives
- Support alignment of business unit strategies with corporate strategic direction
- Contribute to the design and tracking of enterprise-wide strategic initiatives
- Help ensure strategic choices are clearly articulated understood and mobilized across the organization
Strategy Execution Monitoring & Reporting
- Track progress of strategic initiatives programs and key transformation efforts
- Develop and maintain strategy execution dashboards trackers and progress reports
- Identify execution gaps emerging risks and delivery bottlenecks
- Escalate issues with evidence-based recommendations for corrective action
- Support real-time performance and execution visibility for senior management
Performance Management
- Support the design tracking and refinement of strategy-linked KPIs and scorecards (e.g. Balanced Scorecard)
- Assist in preparing Monthly Performance Reviews (MPRs) Quarterly Performance Reviews (QPRs) strategy retreats and budget alignment sessions
- Document decisions strategic priorities action items and agreed follow-ups
- Monitor execution of performance improvement actions and report progress
- Ensure performance reviews focus on strategic outcomes not activity reporting
Enterprise Alignment & Strategy Governance
- Support cross-functional coordination on strategic priorities and enterprise initiatives
- Assist with strategic planning cycles management reviews and governance forums
- Ensure consistency in strategic frameworks assumptions documentation and terminology
- Maintain strategy documentation decision logs and institutional memory
- Uphold governance discipline across strategy formulation execution and review processes
Innovation and Continuous Improvement
- Contribute ideas and insights that improve strategic processes frameworks tools and ways of working
- Support identification of improvement opportunities across strategy development execution monitoring and performance management
- Leverage data analytics and AI-enabled tools to enhance the speed quality and relevance of strategic insight and reporting
- Document lessons learned from strategy execution reviews and retreats to support institutional learning
- Contribute to continuous refinement of KPIs dashboards and governance practices based on what works in practice
- Champion a mindset of experimentation learning and disciplined improvement within the strategy function without compromising governance or decision rigor
Job Requirements
- Minimum of 35 years experience in Corporate Strategy Strategic Planning Business Transformation PMO Performance Management or related functions.
- Strong analytical rigor strategic synthesis and execution discipline
- Ability to translate analysis into strategic implications and actionable insights
- Experience supporting strategy execution tracking reporting and performance management
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional coordination skills
- Ability to work closely with senior stakeholders on enterprise-level priorities
- Experience using data analytics and AI-enabled tools to support strategic insight and reporting
- Strong governance documentation and organizational skills
- Ability to support informed decision-making and enterprise alignment
Key Performance Indicators
The role will be assessed based on:
- Quality and relevance of strategic insights delivered
- Effectiveness of strategy execution tracking and issue escalation
- Timeliness and clarity of strategy and performance reporting
- Contribution to informed decision-making and alignment
- Reliability in managing follow-ups actions and governance discipline
- Stakeholder feedback on clarity usefulness and collaboration
- Appropriate and effective use of analytics and AI tools to support strategy work
Required Skills:
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