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What We'll Bring:
What We Offer
TransUnion believes in investing in the best people. Our dynamic and diverse environment values and promotes associates' growth in their jobs, roles and careers. Our organization supports ambitious individuals who seek career satisfaction and development. Our vision is "To make trust possible between consumers and businesses in global commerce". TransUnion's mission is to help people around the world access the opportunities that lead to a higher quality of life, underpinned by using "Information for Good".
Who We Are
At TransUnion, we are dedicated to finding ways information can be used to help people make better and smarter decisions. As a trusted provider of global information solutions, our mission is to help people around the world access the opportunities that lead to a higher quality of life by helping organizations optimize their risk-based decisions and enabling consumers to understand and manage their personal information. Because when people have access to more
complete and multidimensional information, they can make more informed decisions and achieve great things. TransUnion is listed on the NYSE (TRU) and has consumer data on 1+ billion consumers across 30 countries in 75+ offices. TransUnion Africa currently operates in 8 countries in Africa: Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Malawi. We offer
Commercial, Consumer, Insurance and Auto risk information solutions across several industries (including banking, retail, insurance, automotive and telco) and personal credit management solutions in Africa.
What You'll Bring:
What You Will Do
The Director, Strategy & Planning, will identify, evaluate, and develop new go-to-market strategies focusing on opportunities to grow TransUnion's Africa business organically and through acquisition.
To be successful in the role, you will be a true strategic thinker with a keen interest in driving financial inclusion in Africa across a wide variety of sectors. The incumbent will lead the business planning process, ongoing planning activities, and development of Africa's strategy.
The S&P Director will collaborate with the local and global leadership teams to facilitate strategy and planning sessions and enable global IP transfer. The role will form part of the Africa executive leadership team, which involves collaborating and supporting the Africa leadership team to plan and develop long-term goals and short-term objectives. The individual will also act in a chief of staff capacity - running the CEO's office, which includes preparing board documents
CEO reports and preparing leaders for key stakeholder events.
- Leads execution of business plans and critical initiatives.
- Manage a team of highly skilled strategy professionals
- Conducts primary and secondary research and analysis to inform market entry/market expansion opportunities. Translates these insights into material for senior TransUnion stakeholders.
- Tracks competition and identifies threats and opportunities.
- Provides a critical thinking forum for local leadership.
- Builds trusted relationships with product and industry experts and other key decisionmakers to gather insights and develop actionable go-to-market plans.
- Collaborates with the broader International markets to create and maintain business plans that have clear and measurable targets.
Develops and delivers senior-level presentations for the short-term and long-range plans.
- Designs, facilitates and manages the strategic planning process in line with the business objectives. Drives the pre-and post-meeting work involved for all planning sessions.
- Supports business case development for new opportunities and partners with regional Product heads, Centre of Excellence heads, and global knowledge experts to facilitate and enable import/export of global IP.
- Researches, analyses, and builds content to identify and support acquisition opportunities and facilitates the development and execution of integration plans for any such acquisitions.
- Continually assesses cross-industry best practices, new business models and techniques to enhance current International planning practices.
- Integrates creativity into strategy formulation and execution.
- Executes ad hoc strategic analysis for the leadership team. Gathers competitive intelligence on an ongoing basis, monitors strategy, and predicts competitive responses for key competitors.
- Performs other related duties as assigned
Impact You'll Make:
What You Will Bring
An MBA degree with global strategy experience or experience with strategy consulting would be preferred.
At least 5-8 years of related experience, driving strategic initiatives, including M&A.
High degree of intellectual curiosity with a successful track record of driving ideas to implementation.
Experience collaborating cross-functionally within an organization
Financial and/or credit industry subject matter expertise/ proficiency
Knowledge about the credit reporting industry or International business planning experience
Must have business planning experience along with strong facilitation skills.
A high degree of computer literacy and expertise is required.
Ability to work independently or as part of a dynamic team in a rapidly changing
environment.
Good project management capabilities and high attention to detail; comfortable working under deadlines and producing key deliverables.
Sound business judgment and excellent problem solving and influencing skills.
Proficient financial, analytical, organizational and interpersonal skills.
Proven ability to quickly grasp industry and business-wide concepts in order to assess implications to drive actions and to capitalize on opportunities.
Excellent communication and presentation skills with experience in providing crisp, insightful information to executive teams.
This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.
TransUnion Job Title
Principal, Strategic Planning
What the Team is Saying
What We Do
TransUnion is a global information and insights company that makes trust possible by ensuring that each consumer is reliably and safely represented in the marketplace.
We do this by having an accurate and comprehensive picture of each person.
This picture is grounded in our legacy as a credit reporting agency which enables us to tap into both credit and public record data; our data fusion methodology that helps us link, match and tap into the awesome combined power of that data; and our knowledgeable and passionate team, who stewards the information with expertise, and in accordance with local legislation around the world.
Because of our work, organizations can better understand consumers in order to make more informed decisions, and earn their trust through great, personalized experiences, and the proactive extension of the right opportunities, tools and offers. In turn, consumers can be confident that their data identities will result in the opportunities they deserve.
We make trust possible, so businesses and consumers can transact with confidence and achieve great things. We call this Information for Good®—it’s our purpose, and what drives us every day.
Why Work With Us
Our culture is welcoming, energetic and innovative. There’s an overall synergy that flows throughout TransUnion, creating a sense of unity in knowing that we’re all working to achieve the same overall goal. We’re dedicated to providing opportunities for our people to get involved and stay connected with their colleagues across the globe.
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