Analyst, CEMEA Corporate Strategy

The Analyst will be a member of the company’s CEMEA Corporate Strategy team. The team shapes the company’s long-term strategy and solves enterprise-level questions and challenges by partnering with executives and business leaders across the company’s organization. Recent initiatives have addressed topics such as go-to-market strategy, product strategy, and partnership/acquisition opportunities, many of which have been internationally focused. The team is also responsible for developing competitive intelligence and thought leadership on emerging trends in payments and technology.

Responsibilities

• Independently lead and design part of a strategy that enables strong sustainable competitive advantage for the company and generates tangible impact on the company’s performance.
• Breakdown complex business problems, define a structured approach to addressing the component parts, independently formulate hypotheses, and support project workstreams.
• Drive deep quantitative and qualitative analytical insight, bringing a fresh and differentiated perspective, and supporting proposed recommendations.
• Drive thought leadership with creative, novel, disruptive, but highly practical and implementable solutions to the challenges faced by business owners.
• Ensure strategies and execution programs developed drive tangible commercial impact, secure active stakeholder buy-in, and provide a clear actionable path to implementation.
• Develop frameworks that support the prioritization of strategic initiatives and evaluate investment opportunities for their strategic and financial value.
• Develop clear, simple, and impactful executive-level communications, with a strong ability to persuade and influence senior decision makers.
• Demonstrate outstanding people skills, including supporting colleagues and acting as a magnet for future top talent to the strategy team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• 2 or more years of work experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, investment banking, or equivalent.
• Prior experience working and living in the Sub Saharan Africa region is a must.

Location
Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES