Strategy & Business Partner Financial Manager at Philip Morris International

The Manager Strategy and Business Partner need to hold the deep business knowledge needed to translate business ambitions into a clear strategy and drive the deployment of strategy across the Southern African market.

Your ‘day to day’

• Strategy Formulation and Portfolio Management
• Drive multi-year strategic planning process in close collaboration with local Management Team, by providing strategic insights and direction based on a solid foundation of data-driven analysis and projections, as well as extensive external research
• Translate strategic plan into the annual local organization’s (Affiliates) Operations Objectives and Goals (OGSM), and then drive strategy execution by identifying (together with Consumer Experience) and governing a set of key programs and projects to support local market strategy and regional priorities
• Define measurements aligned with affiliate OGSMs to monitor the performance of critical initiatives
• Continuously evaluate company and market performance and propose adjustments to strategies where needed
• Drive conversion of the consumer journey into financials and integrate it into the business plan
• Understand and analyze the macro-economic environment and market data as input to the preparation of proposals and feasibility studies
• Support local management on return on investments and critical business development projects and provide high-quality analysis of business problems to identify efficient solutions
• Ensure appropriate resource allocation to strategic priorities, leveraging rolling forecast cycles to re-allocate resources
• Provide management team with visibility of portfolio health, including deployment status, portfolio risks and mitigation plans, and portfolio performance
• Ensure that the established PBO (Project-based Organisation) ways of work are optimally maintained and supported
• Commercial Finance/scenario modeling
• Partner with commercial teams to define return on investment of initiatives and drive/support investment decisions and define metrics and targets
• Provide Management Team with decision options to improve business results, based on clear commercial and other functional (e.g., fiscal) drivers
• Prepare analysis and develop scenarios with high-level financial impact to enable high-quality recommendations to the management team.
• Identify trends and patterns to improve channel return on investment based on data (e.g., ensure optimized channel mixes)
• Contribute to Business Development activities where required, including analyses of market data as input to the new business proposal and feasibility studies
• Partner with Commercial Management team to deliver key business presentations, including Business review and Strategy presentations for business planning and to monitor performance

Who we’re looking for

• Bachelor's Degree, preferably CA or CIMA
• Postgraduate qualifications to the mentioned qualification will be advantageous
• 6+ years' Financial Management experience in a Finance/ Business Development & Planning/Strategic management role within FMCG/Oil & Gas/Pharmaceutical industry is key
• Business modeling
• Proven cross-functional expertise
• Strong Collaborator engagement skills
• Solid project management experience
• Validated experience making concrete strategic recommendations from large data sets
• A high level of comfort in Advance MS excel with interactive dashboard experience is vital
• Validated strong storytelling experience
• Data to insights and solutions which includes Data Interpretation & Agile and Innovative Problem Solving