IT Strategy Analyst at Growth in Value Alliance (GVA) Partners Limited

Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners is a business advisory and market intelligence services firm. Our objectives are to assist organizations to achieve their growth aspirations by providing market intelligence, strategy blueprint, IT solution delivery expertise and business operation improvement capabilities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: IT Strategy Analyst

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• An exciting opportunity exists for a skilled IT Strategy Analyst to join a dynamic team.
• The successful candidate will bring a strong analytical and structured approach to problem solving to support execution on the exciting pipeline of opportunities.
• The strategy analyst will perform various functions, which primarily involves utilizing data to provide support for strategy formulation, business development, and forecasting.
• This individual will gather, review, test data and apply many measures to provide solutions to critical business issues and decisions.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Support on developing & keeping key dashboards, databases and systems live and up to date.
• Support on the prioritization and execution of key activities and projects within the organisation.
• Ensure key actions from the Portfolio reviews and strategic plan are captured and completed in a timely manner.
• Support in monitoring the overall portfolio performance between review sessions, and make recommendations and improvements to support execution.
• As required, support other strategic activities within the organization including external innovation, licensing.
• Build and maintain a strong viewpoint on external market dynamics supporting in updating the LT on key trends, announcements and general market intelligence.
• Provide, communicate, and implement strategy to address competition, changes in customer preference, and improvements in technology and marketing tools
• Provide further insight into the firms overall strategy by identifying critical questions performing ad-hoc analyses.
• Provide leadership to teams and cross-functional teams on the execution of an implementation, work plan, or other strategic initiative.
• Provide actionable insights and modeling to improve strategy and performance.
• Develop dashboards, executive summaries, and weekly/monthly reports to measure against KPIs and market dynamics.
• Use a professional presentation style to communicate and creates effective visuals to convey data/info in easily digestible manner with clear takeaways.
• Prepare, organize, and display data/results to convey targeted messages for each audience.

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.
• At least 5 years’ experience working as an IT Strategy Analyst.
• Experience with SQL and R Language software and systems.
• Experience with frameworks, statistics, and algorithm design.
• Comfortable utilizing business case development and strategic thinking to solve problems.
• Strong PowerPoint presentation skills are required.
• Previous consulting experience is mandatory.

Application Closing Date
30th March, 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidate should send their updated resume to: [email protected] and [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.