Head, Strategy & Corporate Planning at Westfield Consulting Limited

Westfield Consulting was founded in January 2012, by a team of Nigerians with over 45 years of cumulative work experience in management and consultancy. Westfield Consulting is a provider of Human Resource and Strategic Management Services.

Our focus on innovation and excellence in service delivery has made us a first choice to our growing clientele in various sectors. We have successfully achieved a positive work force attitude, while engineering a more motivated and committed workforce for our clients with notable results Our results provide a testament about the quality of our services. 70% of our business is repeat business.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head, Strategy & Corporate Planning

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with executives and managers to develop long-range, strategic goals for the Bank.
• Engage in the development of the Bank’s long term strategic plan and annual business plan for approval by Senior Management and the Board of Directors within the given time frame.
• Monitor and evaluate the implementation of the plans, pointing out material negative deviations and recommending prompt corrective actions.
• Monitor and proactively analyse, on an ongoing basis, internal and external events that affect the Bank, to provide ideas and intellectual leadership for both short-term tactics and long-term positioning and vision.
• Provide professional input into the Bank-wide annual business planning and budgeting process through distilling the Bank’s strategic goals into annual activity plans and advise senior management on the most efficient allocation of the tasks for respective departments and units.
• Assist to communicate the Bank’s long term and annual business plan as approved by the Board of Directors to all staff and put in place monitoring and reporting mechanisms for the benefit of Senior management and staff members.
• Participate in the creation and implementation of a customer feedback loop to ensure that the Bank captures customer comments and concerns about its business processes and that such concerns are adequately responded to in order to ensure a customer-centric focus to the Bank’s lending activities.
• Work together with the Risk Management department to define the Bank’s annual risk appetite.
• Participate in the development of a methodology for monitoring the development impact for the Bank’s operations and participating in the development of new products for the Bank in line with laid out strategic goals.
• Any other duties as may be assigned by the Head, Corporate Strategy / Planning

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Marketing, or industry-related field required, MBA highly preferred.
• 8 years’ experience in a similar capacity. Consulting experience is an added advantage.
• Additional professional qualification (CFA, ICAN / ACCA, CIMA) will be an added advantage.

Salary
N15,000,000 - N25,000,000 Annually.

Application Closing Date
31st March, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: victor.allu@westfield-consulting.com using the job title as the subject of the mail.

Note: The role is strictly for qualified candidates currently working in the Banking Industry (Commercial Bank to be precise).