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Corporate Strategy Associate

eRecruiter  •  Lagos, NG (Onsite)  •  11 days ago
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Job Description


Our client is a leading lifestyle and interior solutions company representing globally recognized home and office fitting brands in Nigeria.
They are seeking to hire a Corporate Strategy Associate to support the enterprise in making clear, data-informed, and actionable strategic choices by contributing to strategic insight generation, strategy development, execution monitoring, performance management, and enterprise alignment.
The role combines analytical rigor, strategic synthesis, and execution discipline, leveraging advanced analytics and AI tools to accelerate insight while maintaining strong human judgment, contextual understanding, and accountability.
The Ideal candidate will be expected to:

  • Move beyond analysis to interpretation and implications

  • Support decision-making, not just documentation

  • Work closely with senior stakeholders on enterprise-level priorities

  • Use AI and data tools responsibly to enhance speed and quality of insights

Job Responsibilities
Strategic Research & Insight

  • Conduct targeted market, industry, competitive, and macro-trend analysis to support strategic decisions

  • Support internal performance and capability assessments across business units and functions

  • Identify material strategic risks, opportunities, and emerging issues requiring leadership attention

  • Use data analytics and AI-enabled tools to accelerate research while applying human judgment to validate relevance and implications

  • Translate analysis into clear insights, strategic implications, and hypotheses, not just data summaries

Strategy Development & Execution Support

  • Support the translation of corporate vision, ambition, and priorities into actionable strategic initiatives

  • Assist in evaluating strategic options, scenarios, and trade-offs aligned with enterprise objectives

  • Support alignment of business unit strategies with corporate strategic direction

  • Contribute to the design and tracking of enterprise-wide strategic initiatives

  • Help ensure strategic choices are clearly articulated, understood, and mobilized across the organization

Strategy Execution Monitoring & Reporting

  • Track progress of strategic initiatives, programs, and key transformation efforts

  • Develop and maintain strategy execution dashboards, trackers, and progress reports

  • Identify execution gaps, emerging risks, and delivery bottlenecks

  • Escalate issues with evidence-based recommendations for corrective action

  • Support real-time performance and execution visibility for senior management

Performance Management

  • Support the design, tracking, and refinement of strategy-linked KPIs and scorecards (e.g., Balanced Scorecard)

  • Assist in preparing Monthly Performance Reviews (MPRs), Quarterly Performance Reviews (QPRs), strategy retreats, and budget alignment sessions

  • Document decisions, strategic priorities, action items, and agreed follow-ups

  • Monitor execution of performance improvement actions and report progress

  • Ensure performance reviews focus on strategic outcomes, not activity reporting

Enterprise Alignment & Strategy Governance

  • Support cross-functional coordination on strategic priorities and enterprise initiatives

  • Assist with strategic planning cycles, management reviews, and governance forums

  • Ensure consistency in strategic frameworks, assumptions, documentation, and terminology

  • Maintain strategy documentation, decision logs, and institutional memory

  • Uphold governance discipline across strategy formulation, execution, and review processes

Innovation and Continuous Improvement

  • Contribute ideas and insights that improve strategic processes, frameworks, tools, and ways of working

  • Support identification of improvement opportunities across strategy development, execution monitoring, and performance management

  • Leverage data, analytics, and AI-enabled tools to enhance the speed, quality, and relevance of strategic insight and reporting

  • Document lessons learned from strategy execution, reviews, and retreats to support institutional learning

  • Contribute to continuous refinement of KPIs, dashboards, and governance practices based on what works in practice

  • Champion a mindset of experimentation, learning, and disciplined improvement within the strategy function without compromising governance or decision rigor

Job Requirements

  • Minimum of 3–5 years experience in Corporate Strategy, Strategic Planning, Business Transformation, PMO, Performance Management, or related functions.

  • Strong analytical rigor, strategic synthesis, and execution discipline

  • Ability to translate analysis into strategic implications and actionable insights

  • Experience supporting strategy execution tracking, reporting, and performance management

  • Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional coordination skills

  • Ability to work closely with senior stakeholders on enterprise-level priorities

  • Experience using data analytics and AI-enabled tools to support strategic insight and reporting

  • Strong governance, documentation, and organizational skills

  • Ability to support informed decision-making and enterprise alignment

Key Performance Indicators
The role will be assessed based on:

  • Quality and relevance of strategic insights delivered

  • Effectiveness of strategy execution tracking and issue escalation

  • Timeliness and clarity of strategy and performance reporting

  • Contribution to informed decision-making and alignment

  • Reliability in managing follow-ups, actions, and governance discipline

  • Stakeholder feedback on clarity, usefulness, and collaboration

  • Appropriate and effective use of analytics and AI tools to support strategy work
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