African Leadership X (ALX)

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Strategy & Operations Associate

Job details

Contract Type

Description

Skill Requirements - Essential

  • 3–5 years of experience in strategy, operations, consulting, business operations, or project management roles.
  • Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to synthesise complex information into clear insights.
  • Exceptional ability to create high-quality presentations and slide decks for executive audiences.
  • Strong organisational and project management skills with attention to detail.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience building dashboards or structured reports to support decision-making.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and operate effectively in fast-paced environments.
Responsibilities
  • Coordinate the execution of strategic priorities across teams, ensuring alignment on timelines, ownership, and deliverables.
  • Build, maintain, and continuously improve dashboards and reporting systems supporting:

Weekly leadership updates

Performance scorecards

Monthly business reviews

OKR tracking

  • Translate business needs into clear data and reporting requirements, working with BI teams to implement them effectively.
  • Analyse operational and performance data to surface trends, risks, and opportunities that inform decision-making.
  • Develop high-quality executive reports, summaries, and presentations for leadership and stakeholders.
  • Track progress across key initiatives, ensuring clear visibility into performance, bottlenecks, and dependencies.
  • Run regular data quality checks, identifying inconsistencies and working with data owners to resolve issues.
  • Document metric definitions, reporting logic, and KPI structures to ensure consistency across teams.
  • Support leadership operating rhythms by providing data inputs for:

Weekly reviews

Sprint updates

Monthly and quarterly business reviews

  • Identify opportunities to automate reporting processes and improve access to data for non-technical teams.
  • Support cross-functional projects and special initiatives, building tracking systems and quantifying impact.
  • Respond to structured ad-hoc data and analysis requests from leadership and operations teams.
  • Provide meeting support, including agenda preparation, slide preparation, note-taking, and tracking of action items.
  • Ensure the Regional GM has clear visibility into:
    • Performance and pacing against targets
    • Key risks and issues
    • Strategic opportunities

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