Senior Manager: Strategy & Forecasting at MultiChoice

Key Performance Objective

Strategy Development and Execution

• Lead the development of long-term strategic plans to achieve organizational goals.
• Conduct in-depth market research to understand industry dynamics, consumer behaviour, and emerging trends in the streaming space.Oversee the analysis of internal and external data sources to identify trends, opportunities, and threats in the streaming market.
• Translate data insights into actionable recommendations to inform strategic decision-making processes.
• Develop and evaluate strategic initiatives to address market trends, opportunities, and threats.
• Drive the execution of strategic initiatives from inception to completion.
• Provide strategic guidance to senior leadership on key business decisions.
• Present strategic plans and recommendations to senior leadership
• Identify and analyse emerging trends that may impact the organization.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders.
• Stay up to date on industry trends and best practices.

Reporting

• Generate relevant market intelligence to inform strategic, financial, or operational changes and investment decisions.
• Translate data and findings into meaningful insights and presentations to present recommendations to key decision makers.
• Create visibility and clarity in the organization around new market opportunities, business priorities, and operational requirements; as well as the reasons why, these are important to the business.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build strong relationships with senior leadership and key stakeholders to gain buy-in for strategic initiatives and drive alignment across the organisation.
• Communicate complex strategic concepts and recommendations in a clear, compelling manner through presentations, reports, and discussions.
• Partner across functions and business units to operationalise strategy and optimise tactics.
• Provide support to internal stakeholders to ensure achievement of business objectives.

People Management

• Manage and mentor junior analysts responsible for data analysis, forecasting, and strategic insights.
• Provide guidance, coaching, and professional development opportunities to build a high-performing team.
• Determine and analyse development needs for the team and ensure that identified training requirements are budgeted for and executed.
• Create effective workforce and recruitment demand plans to ensure that current and future business requirements can be met.
• When required, initiate disciplinary processes for team members calling on support from Human Capital when required.
• Resolve grievances raised by team members and escalate only if required.
• Address poor performance of any team member through the formal Performance improvement program and ensure that continued poor performance is appropriately dealt with.
• Motivate team members and ensure that their efforts are recognized.

Qualifications Essential:

• A post graduate degree with qualifications in Business, Economics, technical or mathematical/analytical disciplines

Qualification Preferred:

• Masters Degree / Second Degree or further professional qualification also welcome (e.g. MBA / ACA etc.)

Experience

• 8-10 years strategy experience in business or major consultancy
• Clear track record of expert analysis and recommendation
• Strong financial modelling capability
• Ability to present to Group C-suite under pressure
• Excellent presentation skills -both verbal and written are critical
• Strong project management capability
• Team player – demonstrated ability to lead projects internal/external and across departments
• Calm, collected ability to think on feet
• Ability to participate in strategic debate on an Executive Level
• Demonstrated leadership experience, including managing teams and driving cross-functional collaboration.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights and recommendations.
• Strategic mindset with a track record of developing and executing successful strategic initiatives.
• Proficiency in data analysis tools and techniques, financial modelling, and market research methods.