Commercial Planning and Communication Lead

Position Name: Commercial Planning & Communication Lead

Organization: Commercial Strategy and Analytics, Product

Job Location: GPHouse

Closing Date: April 28, 2025

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Job Purpose:  

This role will work with Head of Commercial Strategy & Planning in communicating and implementing strategies to achieve commercial objectives across Product and Marketing divisions. The- role involves leveraging strategic insights, preparing global benchmarks, and facilitating data-driven decision-making. Additionally, the individual will monitor commercial progress and recommend necessary interventions to ensure alignment with commercial goals.

Job responsibilities:

• Drive strategic planning activities; brainstorming, outlining possible options, goal setting, activity planning, assign supports, foster accountability

• Execute the commercial strategic planning roadmap across Product and Marketing divisions and leadership forums

• Encourage collaboration & innovation while maintaining control over the execution process

• Analyze the status of strategic goals correlating with commercial must win battles & manage the progress

• Analyze customer segmentations, marketing efforts, and campaigns to generate actionable recommendations for improvements aimed at achieving strategic goals.

• Highlight roadblocks when they arise, identify intervention options, and facilitate execution including persuasion of data sources & insights needed.

• Regular market visit to capture customer & competition insights after strategy execution

• Conduct periodic industry trend analysis, competitive benchmarking & provide recommendations to ensure the company remains competitive

• Perform periodic SWOT analysis for the company and commercial to assess their positions relative to strategic objectives and identify any necessary adjustments to strategic goals

• Keep close watch on the global and local trends in technology and consumer behavior and raise risks and opportunities

• Research and analyze successful and innovative business and marketing strategies from global industry practices

• Develop periodic global benchmarks and provide recommendations to support strategic decision-making, foster innovation & adaptation, and drive continuous improvement.

• Commercial strategy communication planning & execution across Product & Marketing divisions

• Ensure highest clarity & alignment of strategic goals and individual responsibility across commercial value chain and relevant cross-divisional shareholders

• Facilitate feedback loops to capture employee pulse on the strategy and its effectiveness, driving continuous improvement and engagement.

Education and Experience:

• Graduate from a reputed University in business, finance, or economics

• Project management/ Agile certification will be an advantage

• 4 years+ experience in greater Commercial / Finance

• Understanding business strategy development

• Marketplace knowledge & insight

• Experience in conducting analysis using dataset will be an advantage

• Understanding of telco-digital product, product lifecycle & GTM management, existing technology capabilities and future requirements preferred

• Understanding of competition landscape, regulatory environment, consumer insight, industry & global benchmarking preffered  

Skills/Competencies

• Curious, willing to explore new ideas & approaches, seek opportunities for learning and innovation

• Critical thinker, result oriented, self-motivated, flexible and growth mindset to make difference

• Effective planning and problem-solving ability

• Excellent communication and storytelling ability

• Strong strategy orientation, business, and value chain understanding