The role will be responsible for leading strategic planning and execution, leading company’s sustainability initiatives and all reporting of a strategic and monitoring nature for the Rwanda Short-Term Business.

Key tasks and responsibilities

1.Lead Strategic Planning:

• Lead the strategic planning and review process and support Functional Units plans and goal alignment with support functions.
• Guide the Strategic planning process by leading in the development of models, frameworks, and templates.
• Prepare the strategic plans for engagements with Boards, Staff, and the Center.
• Provides input in preparing and managing the forecasting process (12 months rolling) to ensure appropriate targets are set, periodically reviewed and all parameters considered.
• Lead the process of creatively cascading, communicating, and internalizing the strategy across the organization and to key external implementation partners for buy in
• Foster excellent functional and cross business collaboration (Rest of BUs, SDU and Group corporate office) to support achievement of short-term business ambition.

2. Strategic Implementation tracking and Enterprise performance management

1. Maintain a single source of organization, departmental and business unit performance data on an on-going basis as part of enterprise performance management.
2. Prepare monthly strategic implementation reports and keeps Senior Managers informed of project direction as necessary.
3. Quantify the impact of business initiatives by utilizing data gathering tools, extracting data for analysis and interpretation, preparing reports synthesizing analytical results and outlining business cases to appropriate levels of management.
4. Lead the preparation of the company and departmental scorecards annually as part of the Business Planning Process with quarterly appraising.
5. Highlight any material risks to the implementation of the same and escalates to the relevant parties for corrective action.

3. Champion Strategic Execution

1. Lead the development of relevant execution approaches and strategies to ensure high level buy-in from senior management, commitment from OMGIK staff and follow-through on strategic commitments made.
2. Provide ad-hoc strategic review and support issues areas for the business with strategic, operational, and tactical interventions/ cause correct recommendations.
3. Coordinate workstreams and taskforces driving key priority areas execution and support through deep insights and reporting on milestones and next actions.
4. Lead transformation realization through competitive internal and external insights and ideas development and roll out. JOB DESCRIPTION
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6. Work with the GMs and Functional Managers to Conceptualize solutions – Innovating around required transformations, products, processes; desired outcomes/KPIs.
7. Champion comprehensive solution co-creation between Business Unit teams and technical teams for comprehensive testing of developed products/solutions.

4. Industry, Market and Business Intelligence Review:

1. Lead development of a comprehensive strategic view of the insurance industry strategic landscape, including consumer trends, competitive intelligence, products reviews, and emerging industry issues on a periodic basis.
2. Leveraging on data mining and business intelligence, identifies trends, patterns and opportunities in the current performance and collaborates with the team in review of periodic targets e.g., initiatives impact reviews and various performance metrics and customer behavior patterns.

5.Strategic Reporting:

• Prepares business reports on a monthly and quarterly basis focused on strategic priorities for consumption by senior management, the Centre, staff briefing and the Boards.
• Adopt Mission Leadership Tool for all engagements on strategic execution (EXCOs, Boards)
• Flag issue areas monthly to MD and accountable head for course correction
• Lead Quarterly Staff engagement and Communications on strategy implementation and business performance update.

6.Risk Management

• Lead the implementation of the Strategic and Business Risk Policy
• Monitor the departmental risk items and IBAM items for timely closure.
• Support reinforcement of risk culture
• Support the achievement of Full Compliance to all regulatory requirements

7.Sustainablity

• Develop and implement a comprehensive sustainability strategy aligned with company goals and industry best practices.
• Conduct sustainability assessments, identify area of improvement and set measurable targets.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders across departments to integrate sustainability into al, business operations
• Stay abreast of emerging sustainability trends, regulations and best practices.
• Communicate sustainability initiatives and achievements to internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage and report on sustainability performance to senior and relevant stakeholders

Qualifications and experience

• University degree in Management, Mathematics, Actuarial Science or equivalent
• MBA is an added advantage
• Strong inter-personal skills and ability to work in a team-oriented and collaborative environment.
• 5+ Years progressive insurance industry experience
• 5+ Years of experience in data extraction, report formulation, interpretation, and analysis
• 5+ Years progressive management experience, including the ability to develop staff.
• Expert level of proficiency in Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, and Access

Skills and competencies

• Strategic thought Leadership
• Business Awareness
• Thinking Skills
• Decision Making
• Gaining Commitment
• Adaptability
• Information Monitoring
• Building Relationships