Job Description

- The Corporate Strategy Manager is tasked with bringing together crucial pieces of information such as competitor performance, operational performance, innovations, markets, etc., from various internal and external sources in order to develop strategic options.

- This information will also serve as input for the regular strategy reviews by senior strategy management and business leaders. In this capacity, the Senior Corporate Strategy Manager is responsible for spearheading the strategic vision across all fronts of the business

- Strategic Planning: The Senior Corporate Strategy Manager is responsible for the development of a decentralized activity planning process and ensuring its adoption across the businesses. He manages the development of corporate plans and budgets by playing a lead role in all the planning and budgeting activities performed by the business. In this position, the Corporate Strategy Manager establishes and reviews key strategic priorities and translates them into actionable and quantitative plans.

- Alongside the senior strategy management, the Corporate Strategy Manager supports the strategic planning process to ensure that this process is timely, focused, and value adding. He also ensures that the strategy planning process highlights existing business issues, making certain that these issues are thoughtfully addressed by the laid-out plans.

- The Corporate Strategy Manager is also responsible for the management and development of the business's KPI infrastructure in order to facilitate analysis and reporting of performance against plans and budgets as well as strategic objectives. The Corporate Strategy Manager manages the development of weekly/quarterly/annual performance reports for the business's leaders as well as facilitating cross-functional performance reviews for this leadership.

- In this position, the Corporate Strategy Manager also supports the maintenance of an effective strategy department inclusive of management, coaching, and development of strategy management personnel and identifying and advising on areas for enhancement and focus.

- The Corporate Strategy Manager is further tasked with the development of strategic threat identification and evaluation processes as well as overseeing their adoption across the business. He develops different possible scenarios for the mitigation of possible risks and provides recommendations for the management of these scenarios.

- The Corporate Strategy Manager, in this capacity, is responsible for the development of strategic risk reports for the senior strategy management as well as the business's top leadership.

- The Corporate Strategy Manager additionally plays the role of a strategy coach to all departmental leadership within the business, providing much needed support in the formulation of individual department strategies. The Corporate Strategy Manager owns strategic plans and ensures compliance with these strategies.

- It is his duty to review, manage, and analyze existing business strategies in order to provide council to the business's leadership and ensure alignment with the business's overall strategy. The Corporate Strategy Manager assists departmental leaders and managers in driving and optimizing improvement of key value levers that will give the business a sustainable competitive advantage.

- The Corporate Strategy Manager will also have an analytical role where he will manage analyses that will provide valuable benchmarking for management as well as timely insights to various departments. He will analyze long-term market trends for the purpose of providing recommendations to leadership and management across the business in regard to business development opportunities, inclusive of acquisition and disposal strategies.

- The Corporate Strategy Manager plays a highly collaborative role and will routinely work with the business's senior executives in setting the vision and agenda of the business and work with the day-to-day planning teams in developing a clear roadmap that will realize the business's vision. The Corporate Strategy Manager also works with the business's clients in order to realize real business issues and develop a strategy for the business's direction from the gathered insights.

- The Corporate Strategy Manager performs similar duties as he deems fit for the proper execution of his duties and duties as delegated by the Director/Chief Executive officer.