Strategic Business Analyst
Summary
| Title: | Strategic Business Analyst |
|---|---|
| ID: | 3003 |
| Department: | Administrative |
| Location : | Riyadh |
| Nationality : | Saudi Arabia |
| Industry: | Government |
| Type of Contract : | Full-time |
Description
We are looking for: Strategic Business Analyst
The Strategic Business Analyst is responsible for gathering strategic insights, participating in strategic analysis and formulation, supporting in action and operational plans development, and developing progress and performance reports to highlight overall strategy and functions’ performance.
Responsibilities
The Strategic Business Analyst is responsible for gathering strategic insights, participating in strategic analysis and formulation, supporting in action and operational plans development, and developing progress and performance reports to highlight overall strategy and functions’ performance.
Responsibilities
- Conduct day-to-day activities while ensuring compliance to policies and procedures
- Contribute to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of systems, processes in line with leading practices
- Establish working relationships with relevant internal stakeholders
- Collect feedback from internal stakeholders on issues being faced and other requirements
- Contribute to the preparation of progress reports directed to all relevant stakeholders to keep them informed of progress
- Conduct research and benchmarking studies to gather strategic insights and participate in strategic analysis including SWOT, supply and demand, and capacity assessments to identify best practices and highlight gaps
- Perform baseline analysis to understand the organization's current state using standard analytical and statistical techniques and develop reports including findings to provide input for the development of the organization's strategy
- Draft multiple strategic pillar options depicting different groupings of strategic pillars, and support analysis with business cases for the development of strategic pillars and initiatives
- Participate in detailing strategic objectives and converting them into KPI charters highlighting tools of measurement, baseline values, and targets
- Identify core activities and essential resources to allow initiatives implementation and integrate outputs into the organization's operational plans
- Support functions during action plans and operational plans development, ensure they cascade from strategy and strategic initiatives and they are justified
- Schedule and conduct communication sessions with the organization's functions to disseminate cascaded strategies and ensure reconciliation with functions' directions
- Develop KPIs that cascade from the highest level to the individual level, monitor and continuously update KPI dashboards to track strategic metrics, and take action when needed
- Analyze functions' performance to identify gaps, provide insights on challenges and weaknesses and suggest improvement actions
- Collect and consolidate data from functions on a periodical basis to analyze performance and completeness of plans
- Develop progress and performance reports in coordination with functions highlighting overall strategy and functions' performance, achieved results, and deviations and recommend improvements to be implemented in next planning cycle
- 0 to 2 years of experience in a Strategy field
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or equivalent is required
