Team Lead, Strategy at Fosad Consulting Limited

Fosad Consulting, LLC. is a professional services firm established to provide quality consulting services to desiring clients, whose primary objective is to focus their management and technical resources on their core competence.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Team Lead, Strategy

Location: Lagos Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Role Responsibilities

• Establish an organisation-wide system that monitors and measures the implementation of the strategic business growth plans
• Develop the entity’s strategic direction and objectives into plans, programs, and initiatives, and ensure the achievement of set targets.
• Promote organisation-wide strategic planning and strategic implementation
• Develop strategies, validating and justifying business needs, conducting feasibility studies, producing high-level and detailed business models, preparing business cases
• Create and continuously improve the performance management framework and appraisal methodology
• Conduct periodic review, analysis and reporting of the company’s performance on its strategic plan
• Oversee frequent research and analysis of macro, industry, and competitive trends across the globe to distil key strategic learnings for internal growth and development
• Create change strategy and ensures understanding and buy-in at senior, management & board level.
• Contribute to establishing and improving the entity’s best practices in the area of project execution, control, and progress reporting.
• Guide the development of project scope, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy and compliance with governance process.
• Ensure the gathering of crucial pieces of information such as strategic priorities, competitor performance, operational performance, innovations, markets, etc. from various internal and external sources in order to develop strategic options.
• Develop and maintain strategic relationships with key organizations and investors and champion the formulation of strategic business alliances.
• Develop leading-edge thought from the financial services, academic, and general business world to provide situational guidance
• Promote the optimal use of financial resources such as working capital, credit, and risk management
• Develop data gathering and analysis tools/techniques.
• Coach the team on adoption and understanding of Agile methodologies, principles, and practices in the broader organization.

What We Are Looking For

• Bachelor's Degree in Social Sciences, Finance or Accounting or any related discipline.
• Minimum of eight (8) years’ experience preferably in a similar role
• Professional qualification – ACA/ACCA/MSC/MBA
• Proven track record on interacting with Senior Management in a highly sensitive and collaborative to agree the Group’s strategic direction.
• Ability to demonstrate a broad business perspective and develop strategies that integrate these perspectives
• Ability to demonstrate expertise, knowledge and understanding of techniques employed in managing the change process
• Proven ability to clearly convey information and instructions, which will determine the effectiveness with which strategies are executed across the Group
• Experience of building appropriate and effective networks, locally and Group-wide for the benefit of our communities
• Excellent communication skills for the delivery of regular reports for the business’s leadership, which must be easily digestible, unambiguous, engaging, informative and convincing.
• Demonstrate ability to perform standard analyses such as performance analyses, competitive analyses, market analyses, etc.
• Extensive experience in the development and implementation of policy
• Strong presentational and influencing skills
• Strong leadership and management skills
• Ability to ensure that staff are confident using their own initiative
• Excellent time management skills
• Articulate, dynamic, energetic and delivery focused
• Flexible, adaptable, and able to work under pressure
• Ability to take responsibility for own learning and continuous improvement
• Take responsibility for managing excellent performance results
• Exceptionally good analytical skills, an ability to translate raw information into actionable strategies.

Key Performance Indicators

• Compliance with professional, regulatory, statutory, and corporate requirements
• Clear and consistent leadership of staff
• Efficient and well managed work processes across the function.
• Feedback from internal/external clients.
• Effective Project and Program Management
• Achievement of agreed targets for the Team
• Setting the Strategic Planning Framework
• Percentage increase in customer base.
• Quality of proposals.
• Level of adherence to the company’s policy.
• Number of new business opportunities successfully converted to orders.
• Quality of market intelligence for decision making.
• Accuracy and timeliness of management information and reports.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.