Strategy Manager at M-KOPA Nigeria

The scale and impact of our work is massive. M-KOPA is a fast-growing FinTech company offering millions of underbanked customers across Africa access to life-enhancing products and services. From our roots as the pioneer in pay-as-you-go “PayGo’” solar energy for off grid homes, we have grown into one of the most advanced connected asset financing platforms in the world, empowering a broad range of customers to achieve progress in their lives.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Strategy Manager

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-time (Hybrid)
Department: Commercial - Customer Operations

Job Description
To achieve this, you’ll be expected to:

• Conduct research, analysis, and presentations to support M-KOPA’s long-term strategy
• Drive M-KOPA’s quarterly business planning and prioritization process
• Manage high-priority cross-functional strategic projects to achieve our overall business objectives
• Lead the company’s ‘Voice of the Customer program
• Develop departmental performance dashboards, coordinating with product and data teams to define and measure KPIs
• Act as a bridge between product and operating teams to ensure excellent training and adoption of software, systems, and tools
• Support M-KOPA’s strategic growth areas, including market and economic analysis, partner landscaping, competitor benchmarking, business model development, and supporting pilots and product introductions.
• Identify and scope opportunities to improve operations, process, efficiency, and performance.

Requirements
You Might Be A Good Fit If You…

• Have a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience. 
• Are passionate about making fair and flexible financing accessible to everyone
• Have 5+ years of work experience in strategy, business operations, management consulting, product management, research, or comparable roles 
• Are strong analytically, have significant experience with Excel modeling and making data-driven decisions
• Love solving open-ended business problems, from identifying the problem that needs to be solved to developing actionable recommendations and driving implementation 
• Are excited to be a champion for our customers in everything you do 
• Are a collaborator and have a low ego 
• Love fast-moving environments with a sense of urgency to get the job done 
• Have emerging markets experience (particularly in East or West Africa).

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.