Job Summary:
Manages the bank’s Strategic Planning, Strategy execution, and Performance department. Translates Board-approved strategic direction into a structured roadmap, cascades it bank-wide, tracks execution against plan, and maintains a regular reporting: weekly execution dashboard, monthly senior management strategy review, and quarterly Board strategy review. Use outputs from the Economic, Market & Competitors Research Department to support planning assumptions, KPI target-setting, peer benchmarking, scenario testing, and strategy updates. Also coordinates global trend scanning, innovation integration, and strategic partnerships.
Job Responsibilities:
- Coordinate the annual strategic planning cycle: translate the bank’s medium and long-term strategic direction into a roadmap and annual plan with defined objectives, prioritized initiatives, KPIs, resource requirements, and implementation timelines across all business lines and support functions.
- Maintain the strategy roadmap and strategic assumptions log and update according to Board decisions, macro or market shifts, or competitive dynamics.
- Manage the prioritization of strategic initiatives using qualitative and quantitative criteria such as strategic fit, resource requirements, expected return, and time-to-impact.
- Support alignment between the strategic plan, annual budget, and resource allocation priorities in coordination with Finance, Treasury and Risk.
- Own the strategy execution governance framework: accountability assignments, reporting cadence, escalation thresholds, and decision rights for all approved strategic initiatives.
- Track initiative milestones and deliverables. Identify deviations such as delays, scope changes, resource gaps, or assumption failures, corrective actions and escalate issues requiring senior management decision or resource reallocation.
- Conduct post-initiative reviews on completed programmed: document outcomes versus plan, diagnose gaps, and capture lessons for future cycles.
- Produce the monthly strategy review for senior management: performance against KPIs and business plan targets, gap analysis, initiative status, and recommended corrective actions.
- Cascade the approved strategy and annual roadmap bank-wide: translate strategic objectives into functional priorities, initiatives, KPIs, and targets.
- Manage the strategy communication calendar and embed operational and financial efficiency KPIs within the governance framework.
- Facilitate quarterly alignment sessions with business line and function heads to review progress against cascaded objectives, cross-functional dependencies, and recalibrate priorities where needed.
- Lead and develop the team: set clear priorities, maintain high output standards, and build capability in structured analysis, financial modelling, and executive communication.
- Manage cross-functional relationships with Finance, Risk, Technology, Change Management, and business lines to ensure strategic planning, execution tracking, and performance reporting are embedded in the bank’s operating rhythm.
Job Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or a related field.
- Master’s degree or MBA is preferred.
- From 9-12 years of relevant experience in strategic planning, strategy execution, performance management, business planning, transformation, or banking strategy. Direct experience in banking or financial services is strongly preferred.
- Previous experience leading a team and managing cross-functional stakeholders is required.
- Strategy, performance management, project management, business analysis or similar professional certifications are a plus.