Job Description
- Reporting to the Venture Management Tribe
Lead, The Venture Portfolio Manager will be responsible for planning,
developing, and executing key strategic initiatives and establishing key
ventures inline with Safaricom Group goals and objectives. Primary objective
will be to execute key strategic and cross-functional initiatives and
establish envisaged venture’s in a bid to spur business growth and enhance
customer experience.
Responsibilities
Strategy and Roadmap
- Collaborate with stakeholders, such as
product managers and business leaders, to identify and prioritize key
strategic initiatives and allocate resources effectively.
- Develop and execute an execution roadmap
for key strategic initiatives, aligned with the overall organizational
objectives.
- Identify market trends, competitive
landscape, and client needs to define the strategic roadmap.
Venture Building
- Drive the ideation, design, and
development of ventures and cross functional strategic units
- Coordinate execution of key ventures and
initiatives
- Proactively identify and address any
barriers that may hinder execution of key initiatives/ventures
Post-Launch Support
- Work closely with Venture/Business Unit
leads to ensure the venture/strategic initiative meets the 12-24 month
objectives and milestones
- Foster cross-functional coordination to
ensure portfolio companies meet the 12-24 month objectives and
milestones.
Stakeholder Management
- Establish and maintain strong
relationships with key stakeholders, including clients, senior executives,
and business partners.
- Collaborate with other tribes, teams, and
departments to foster a holistic and integrated approach to venture
building and execution of key strategic initiatives.
- Communicate effectively to convey the
tribe’s vision, progress, and achievements.
Performance Monitoring and
Reporting
- Define and track key performance
indicators (KPIs)for each initiative
- Prepare regular reports and presentations
to update senior management on the execution of key initiatives, outcomes,
and challenges.
Data Analytics
- Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs)
related to wealth management products and services, analyze data trends,
and provide actionable recommendations for performance improvement.
- Drive data-driven decision-making by
presenting insights and recommendations to senior management and
stakeholders.
- Ensure data privacy and security measures
are implemented and followed in accordance with regulatory requirements
and industry best practices.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest
advancements in data analytics and technology to identify opportunities
for innovation and process optimization in venture building
Core competencies, knowledge and
experience
Customer Obsession
- Deepen team connection to our customers
and communities.
- Foster authentic relationships with
customers and partners that build trust.
- Explicitly take customer-centric
decisions and take personal ownership to achieve results.
- Simplify processes through digitalization
and promote a digital mindset and digital first customer experience.
- Stay focused on the big priorities, know
when to make meaningful trade-offs and demonstrate brilliant
execution.
Purpose
- Drive execution of key initiatives.
- Show ambition and courage, empowering
others to go beyond the plan.
- Prompt new thinking and ideas by asking
“what if” questions.
- Use knowledge of the external environment
(customers, partners, competition, external bodies) to identify and act on
opportunities for growth at pace.
Innovation
- Create psychological safety so everyone
can have an impact.
- Fuel innovative ideas from others and
test them to enable growth.
- Explore successes and failures with
curiosity and resilience; fearlessly recognizing lessons learned.
- Share your ongoing learning and personal
purpose with others.
- Learn fast from digital adoption, using
learnings to drive simplicity, scale and efficiency.
Collaboration
- Articulate your team’s role in making our
strategy happen, prioritizing and aligning resources with current and
future needs.
- Actively collaborate to break silos and
hold your team accountable to do the same.
- Develop others to make the most of their
talents and coach them to take ownership to get things done.
- Create an inclusive environment ensuring
the safety and wellbeing of others.
- Live our Purpose and demonstrate the
highest Standard of integrity.
Key performance indicators
- Adherence to set Venture Management Tribe
business OKRs and commitments.
- Timely delivery of key project
milestones
- Timely escalation and resolution of
issues at execution phase
- Ventures’ successful achievement of key
post-launch milestones and targets
- Compliance with all relevant regulations
and internal policies and procedures. KPIs could include regulatory
compliance metrics, audit results, and risk management metrics.
- Provide guidance and leadership to team
members, through continuous and quarterly reviews.
- Identify and nurture talent within the
Venture Management Tribe.
- Provide guidelines and process for the
implementation of reward and recognition activities.
- Agile Maturity, Employee Engagement
(eNPS) and Productivity.
Qualifications
- At least seven (7) years’ knowledge and
experience in the relevant field with at least three (3) in a
managerial/supervisory role.
- Relevant Business Undergraduate Degree or
relevant field along with professional qualifications, or equivalent
qualification(s) from a recognized institution of higher learning.
- Strong project management skills with
emphasis on integrating multiple work inputs into a unified deliverable
and, timely completion of projects.
- Self-Starter who thrives in a fast-paced
environment with a high degree of autonomy.
- Possess high professional and ethical
standards.
- Demonstrate strong execution capabilities
with good strategic and analytical mindset.
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