Head of Strategy & Planning at Capital Express Assurance Limited

Capital Express Assurance Limited - A leading Life Assurance Company in Nigeria is recruiting at its branch in Onitsha. CAPEX is a Re-capitalised Life Assurance Company with the Head Office located in Lagos, Nigeria. It has international branches in Ghana, Gambia, Liberia, Sierra Leone, South Africa. The Company currently has a robust clientele cutting across various sectors amongst which are Govt. Agencies and parastatal, Banking and Investment, Educational institutions and various other corporate organizations in Nigeria.

Due to expansion and New products introduced, we are seeking the service of qualified and suitable candidates, to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head of Strategy & Planning

Location: Lagos
Job Grade: Senior Manager

Job Description

• To provide strategic direction for the SBUs towards achieving the objectives of the Company.

Key Responsibilities Strategy

• Plan and Coordinate the strategic planning function of the Company
• Execute strategic initiatives, with a focus towards maximizing market share and increasing profit by translating strategic objectives into practical plans and goals
• Develop and communicate the strategy for the Company including but not limited to:
• o developing an overall corporate strategy and cascading it down for every Strategic Business Unit (SBU), Strategic Resource Function (SRF) and subsidiary;
• Develop and coordinate annual strategic planning process and corporate planning initiatives; Ensuring that employees understand the details of the strategic plan and how their work connects to corporate goals
• Identify optimization opportunities and implement high impact strategic interventions on regular and ad hoc basis to improve operational efficiency across the Company, organize and coordinate various SRFs and SBUs to ensure the aims and objectives of strategic projects are met within reasonable limits of allocated resources
• Implement the strategy of the Company, focus towards maximizing market share, shareholders wealth and increasing profit by translating strategic objectives into practical plans and goals
• Take ownership of decision making that sustains organizational change, test whether the decisions being made across the organization are aligned with the strategy and are creating the desired results and decide on basis of outcome analyses, whether to stay on track or to change direction
• Develop and coordinate plans aimed at translating strategic objectives into practical plans and goals
• Provide Executive Management with global and regional business scenarios and ad-hoc analyses as required; identify new business growth opportunities or potential operational risks; advising best options to proceed
• Present analytical and value-added insights to Executive Management on market and business trends, consumer innovation and patterns, industry trends, macroeconomic factors and demographic potentials
• Deliver off-site deployment process, coordinate subsidiaries and Strategic Business Units (SBUs) to ensure tight fit alignment with corporate strategy with the objective of maximizing value-based direction and enhancing business focus and profitability.
• Present new ideas for growth through understanding competitive actions and market trends in the local and global financial industry with strategic intent of influencing and directing management thought
• Manage all aspects of the annual Board Strategy Retreat event including, making presentations on industry insights to assist the Board in its decision making function; coordinating presentations of each member of the Management Committee (and relevant SRFs) to ensure appropriate message is delivered to the Board.
• Coordinate all the SBUs and ensures the achievement of financial target approved for the division by Management

Requirement

• Candidates should possess relevant qualifications.

Application Closing Date
31st December, 2017.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV's to: [email protected]