Job Responsibilities 

• Health and Safety
• Uphold the company code of conduct, policies and procedures, ensuring integrity and accountability in every aspect of your work.
• All employees have a responsibility to adhere to safety, health, and wellbeing policies, guidelines and procedures in all actions and decisions
• Commercial Strategy and Planning
• Ensure that the commercial strategy is implemented in alignment with overall tribe strategy, market needs and requirements. Responsible for gaining leadership in the market segment in Kenya.
• Revenue and Profitability Management
• To monitor pricing strategies, margins and cost structures to maximize profitability
• Customer and Market Insights
• To analyze and generate insights from customer behavior, market trends, competitor activity to develop strategic value propositions and Go-To-Market strategies that will enable Safaricom drive acquisition, usage and retention of Customers, while gaining on key consideration, usage and affinity brand metrics specific to the segment and products.
• Partner and Stakeholder Management
• To Build and manage strategic partnerships with partners, enterprises and regulator while collaborating cross-functionally with finance, marketing, product, and technical teams.
• Leadership and Team Development
• To Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team managed though set performance targets to ensure KPI achievement.

Qualifications

• Must have technical / professional qualifications:
• Relevant undergraduate degree. A master’s degree is beneficial.
• At least 8 years working experience in the Financial Services Sector, Mobile money and Telco sector business models with a focus on   strategy development, product management, product marketing, pricing and analytics etc.
• Highly developed communication skills and ability to manage and champion strategy positions up to Executive levels.
• Critical competencies for success
• Experience in preparation of budgets and forecasts in a large company
• Financial modelling experience, preferably in Excel
• Demonstrated ability to analyze the financial services competitive environment through market trends, market intelligence and providing insights for response to the findings