Senior Strategy Associate

Job Description

Your main responsibilities

• Working closely with the executive team and stakeholders on key initiatives, supporting recommendation development and providing insights.

• Challenging the status quo (jointly with your team) and identifying opportunities to drive value for Allegro.

• Participation in the end-to-end solution development process, including: problem definition and structuring, running analysis and synthesizing the insights, developing recommendations and strategies, creating implementation plans, converting thoughts into crisp materials (slides, excel, word documents) as well as presenting the results.

• Making things happen: follow up on key initiatives to ensure timely delivery. Proactive support for initiative owners as well as take personal responsibility for selected streams (depending on the project).

• Being part of a cross-functional team and cultivating successful cross-team relationships

• Being ready to be embedded within key projects in one or more business areas, from commerce, to advertising, to logistics, to international expansion to name just a few

What we offer

• Well-located offices (with fully equipped kitchens and bicycle parking facilities) and excellent working tools (height-adjustable desks, interactive conference rooms)

• A wide selection of fringe benefits in a cafeteria plan – you choose what you like (e.g. medical, sports or lunch packages, insurance, purchase vouchers)

• English classes that we pay for related to the specific nature of your job

• Work in a team you can always count on – we have on board top-class specialists and experts in their areas of expertise

• Team tourism, training budget and an internal educational platform, MindUp (with training courses on work organization, means of communication, motivation to work and various technologies and substantive issues)

• If you want to learn more, check it out for yourself

What are we looking for

• Logical thinking and problem solving

  • Clear and logical problem structuring and decomposition into simpler steps

  • Solid prioritization skills, allowing to focus on things important for the solution

  • Practical approach and elasticity (80/20 rule, drive to make things happen as oppose to ‘sit-and-wait’ for perfect set of data)

• Market Analysis and Strategy thinking

  • Business acumen - entrepreneurial mindset, ability to connect the dots to find the best solution from the company’s P&L perspective

  • Identify market trends, quantify market potentials and market shares

  • Evaluate key capabilities and define key performance indicators

  • Identify and evaluate existing competitors and potential new entrants, propose the response strategy

• Clear communication

  • Powerful, concise and effective slide design

  • Articulate internal client and project team dialogue

  • Persuasive, compelling verbal style

• Information Technology

  • Ability to model data in Excel / Google Sheets

  • Ability to do effective slides in Microsoft Office / GSlides

  • Ability to write persuasive and clear text in WORD / Google DOCs

  • Knowledge of basic other data modeling tools will be an additional plus (incl. Tableau, basic Python)

• Financial Modeling

  • Data driven - ability to come to the right conclusions from the data provided, including fluency with numbers and graphical data forms (charts, tables, etc.)

  • Understanding and ability to read and discuss Profit and Loss statement, Balance Sheet and basic financial performance indicators (ROI, ROE, NPV, etc.)

  • Identify cost blocks and cost drivers

  • Understand basics of business valuation, business value drivers, DCF calculation process

• Working style and ethics

  • Identifies all concerned parties from within Allegro and Group companies, involving and engaging them throughout the life of the project

  • Generate enthusiasm and wins support for project from the wider Allegro Team

  • Treats all people with respect, regardless of position (purpose over ego)

  • Be a Team player - Work in a collaborative, understanding and empathetic way

  • Stay receptive and open to feedback

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