Strategy Director

OBJECTIVE OF THE ROLE
Developing, implementing and overseeing strategic initiatives designed to achieve goals and objectives. The job holder will analyze market trends, identify opportunities and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation, efficiency and effective decision-making.
SCOPE OF WORK
1. Merger & Acquisition (M&A)
In charge of all aspects of an investment, fund raising activity and partnership development, including sourcing, assessment of the market, target and competitive landscape, valuation, negotiation, investment committee approvals, due diligence, structuring, and legal documentation
2. Developing a strategic plan
• Develop strategic plans to provide a clear roadmap for the organisation's growth and to maintain competitiveness in the market.
• Devise strategic plans typically incorporates many responsibilities, including conducting comprehensive market research, analysing trends and identifying opportunities and threats.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to gather insights, determine the company's strengths and weaknesses and identify potential areas for improvement.
3. Conducting market research for Retail and relevant business sectors
• Conduct market research to gather critical insights about the industry, the organisation's competitors, customer behaviours and emerging trends. These insights help in the development of robust and effective strategic plans.
• Leverage diversified research methods, such as data analysis, surveys, focus groups and interviews, which help you collect both quantitative and qualitative information.
• By analyzing these data, the job holder will identify gaps in the market, anticipate customer needs, assess competitive positioning and discover potential risks and opportunities.
4. Collaborating with cross-functional teams
By ensuring strategic alignment within the entire organization, you will be expected to collaborate with cross-functional teams. This collaboration helps you gain a comprehensive understanding of each department's capabilities, challenges and goals, leading to accurate, achievable and relevant objectives within a strategic plan. Collaboration can involve regular meetings, workshops and brainstorming sessions with individuals from various departments.
5. Defining key performance indicators
You will define KPIs to establish measurable objective criteria for evaluating the progress and success of strategic initiatives. KPIs serve as valuable tools that ensure accountability, facilitate informed decision-making and enable the optimisation of strategies based on data-driven insights. When defining KPIs, you usually collaborate with teams to identify the most meaningful metrics that align with the strategic plan. Some KPIs might include revenue growth rate, market share, customer satisfaction score and ROI.
6. Providing effective leadership
You will provide effective leadership to inspire, motivate and guide cross-functional teams to execute strategic initiatives. Your strong leadership can help foster a collaborative and innovative work culture that facilitates effective decision-making and ensures a cohesive environment. You might adopt many different leadership styles and techniques, such as clear communication, active listening, constructive feedback, guidance and mentorship. By providing effective leadership, you can foster an environment that encourages contributions toward shared organisational goals.
7. Coordinating budgeting processes
• Contribute to the process to ensure budgets align with strategic plans.
• Collaborate with team members and department leads to identify the necessary financial resources to achieve strategic initiatives.
• Contribute to the budget planning process by ensuring budgets allocate departments and teams with the necessary resources for achieving their goals and ultimately contributing to the overall strategic plan.
8. Identifying risks and opportunities
You will identify potential risks and opportunities and take action to either mitigate the risks or seize the opportunities. When identifying risks and opportunities, you may adopt a variety of tools and techniques, such as SWOT analysis and business intelligence. These tools and methods allow you to systematically assess internal and external factors that may impact the organisation's performance.
9. Aligning company culture with strategic objectives
To ensure alignment with culture and goals, you may collaborate with human resource teams and provide effective leadership, helping to foster an environment that encourages commitment and dedication to the organisation's objectives.