Britam Strategy Manager Jobs In Kenya

Strategy Manager Jobs at Britam, Kenya

British-American is a leading financial services group in the region, offering a wide range of insurance and asset management services to individuals, small businesses, corporations and government entities.

As part of our growth strategy and to strengthen the team to achieve its ambitious performance objectives, the company wishes to recruit experienced, dynamic and innovative individuals to fill the following positions

Group Strategy Manager Job Purpose

• Develops and analyses group strategy and strategic initiatives and creates consolidated view of all strategic initiatives across the group

Key responsibilities

• Ensure all strategic initiatives meet shareholder ROI requirements and are in line with risk appetite
• Ensure that strategic planning feeds into budget preparation process
• Contribute to the development and innovation of new strategic developments
• Oversees the end-to-end strategic planning process, including setting targets, developing templates and supporting BUs in building plans
• Establish and review Britam’s key strategic priorities and translates them into a comprehensive strategic plan
• Translate strategies into actionable and quantitative plans
• Communicate the group strategy
• Ensure that BUs and GCC are functioning in line with formulated strategies
• Establish the strategic planning process’ milestones, meeting calendar and deadlines with the BUs
• Link the strategic activities to an actively managed and ongoing performance management system
• Partner with business leaders, special committees, and consultants to support execution of key initiatives
• Constructively challenges BU strategic and financial plans
• Build the required skills and knowledge for strategy development amongst BU heads, e.g. Business case development
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned from time to time

Key Performance Measures

• Performance and strategy plans
• Financial strategy reports
• Working relationships
• Internal Relationships

The Group Strategy Manager will be:

• Accountable to the Group Finance and Strategy Director
• Required to liaise and work closely with the other Department Heads and Unit Managers, TMO Manager

External Relationships:

• Required to develop and maintain working relationships with Financial Sector Regulators- Insurance and Capital Markets as required
• Financial sector players

Knowledge, experience and qualifications for Strategy Manager Jobs in Kenya

• Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Business administration, finance or related field related field
• Masters’ degree is an added advantage
• 7 -10 years’ experience in a in strategy design management, implementation and review 3 – 4 years of which should be in a managerial capacity

Competencies

Technical and functional competencies

• Strategic planning and ability to develop strategic plans
• Strategic analysis using all of the following various methods such as:
• Value Chain Analysis
• Results Based Management
• Scenario Planning and
• Sensitivity Analysis Logical framework analysis
• Pestel analysis
• SWOT analysis
• Cost benefit analysis
• Project management and programme management (management of multiple projects)
• Performance management-sound knowledge and experience with defining corporate performance management and defining and measuring strategic outputs and advising the organisation on how to cascade these to functions and specific role KPI`s
• Monitoring and evaluation-sound experience and knowledge in establishing monitoring frameworks and mechanisms for monitoring strategic realisation and outputs

Core competencies

• Communication skills
• Building Relationships
• Focuses on the Customers
• Develops Self
• Solves Problems
• Develops Others
• Manages Quality and Risk
• Managing Change and Ambiguity
• Managing and Executing Strategy
• Develops Business

Closing Date: Friday, June 26, 2015

Key Skills/Specialization:

• A bachelor’s degree in Economics business administration Finance

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