Senior Specialist: Strategy

Empowering Africa's tomorrow, together one story at a time. With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group. Job Summary Provide complex advice and support in facilitating long term strategy development. Manage governance & performance monitoring to ensure execution. Provide performance reporting & business updates. Support in top-down and bottom up goal setting. Job Description Business Development Conduct and facilitate strategic and market analytics to drive out customer and business insights.Extract key intelligence to present to the Management on a monthly basis to support their strategy definition and tactical change decision making. Business Strategies and Planning To facilitate and develop targeted segment specific strategies. Ensure alignment between functional areas and overall. Research Investigate and embark on a continuous market scanning to identify and stay abreast of market trends and activities to inform opportunities for new or enhanced products and services. Stakeholder Management Develop relationships with business leadership, and ensure that business improvement recommendations are monitored and sustained. Performance reporting Co-ordinate an overall key indicator dashboard. Drive the senior executive's strategic reporting requirements by delivering all reporting requests from and to all senior management stakeholders. Co-ordinate medium term plans (MTP) to guide top-down target setting. Education Bachelor s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required) Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank. Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised At Absa, our story is not a single narrative. It's thousands of individual journeys unfolding across Africa and beyond.From colleagues serving customers in local communities to teams shaping financial solutions across borders, Absa is built on people who bring their lived experiences, ambitions and perspectives into the workplace every day. Whether you're starting your career, a seasoned leader or somewhere in between, your contribution is seen, valued and connected to something bigger.Our presence across Africa - which spans personal and business banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment management, and insurance - exists because of the people who show up in their roles with purpose. Across Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, our colleagues are shaping what Absa becomes in each market.Beyond the continent, teams in global offices and a technology hub support and extend the stories that prove that African talent can lead, influence and innovate on the global stage.At Absa, your story matters because progress is driven by human experience, not hierarchy. When people are enabled to bring their whole selves to work, they don't just build careers. They help shape the future of Africa's financial services landscape.