Senior Enterprise Strategy Manager ( 4 days in Office)

About Zensar Technologies
Zensar is a leading digital solutions and technology services company partnering with global organizations on their digital transformation journey. A technology partner of choice, with strong track-record of innovation, credible investment in digital solutions and assertion of commitment to client’s success, Zensar’s comprehensive range of services and solutions enable clients achieve new thresholds of performance. Part of the $40 billion APAX Partners’ portfolio of companies, Zensar is uniquely positioned to help existing businesses run efficiently, manage legacy transformation and plan business growth through innovative digital platform. https://www.zensar.com
Working at Zensar
Working at Zensar is an enriching experience. While work is driven by innovation and passion, fun is taken seriously too. An open environment is encouraged making it easy to brainstorm with colleagues. Creative thinking is encouraged through time out activities. Moreover, the offices have been designed to foster creativity and communication, bringing a little bit of home into work every day. Zensar provides and a comprehensive benefit package for all fulltime employees.

Zensar is seeking a Senior Enterprise Strategy Manager with 4 Days in offiice in London, UK. 
This is contract position with the possibility of fulltime.

We are looking for a highly driven sales professional with a strong track record of new business acquisition, particularly within Creative, Design, CX, Digital Experience, and IT solution sales. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on opening new doors, building strategic relationships, and closing large, complex enterprise deals. This position is fulltime with Robust Benefits in South Africa.

Purpose of job
Lead the development of enterprise strategy and the most complex strategic initiatives by defining priority questions in partnership with senior executives, shaping structured analysis and strategic options,
and advising leadership on choices that affect growth, investment, transformation, operating model and enterprise performance. Provide senior consulting leadership across multiple workstreams and
initiatives, ensure executive-ready outputs, influence stakeholder alignment, and strengthen the strategy function through coaching, methods and quality leadership.

What are the accountabilities of the job?

• Identify, frame and prioritise enterprise strategic opportunities and challenges, ensuring analysis is decision-relevant and grounded in clear hypotheses
• Lead development of strategic recommendations with explicit implications, risks, assumptions, value drivers and execution considerations
• Ensure strategy initiatives deliver against enterprise objectives, maintain focus on impact and surface risks or dependencies early
• Oversee senior workstreams and integrated project teams, ensuring outputs are aligned, high quality and connected to a consistent strategic narrative
• Anticipate executive and stakeholder needs, manage competing incentives, and drive alignment across functions and senior stakeholder groups
• Lead executive-level materials, Board or ExCo-readycommunications, workshops and decision forums that support clear strategic choices
• Coach managers and junior team members, provide direction and feedback, and contribute to capability building, methods, frameworks and continuous improvement

Conduct and Line of Defence

• Comply with Our Code, Purpose, Values, and relevant Policies
• Respect relevant regulatory obligations and Conduct Rules
• This is a first line job, as described in the Three Lines of Defence
• Principles, responsible for intelligent risk taking and managing its direct and consequential risks
• Promote a culture where risk, including financial crime and fraud, is managed effectively, including prompt identification, escalation and reporting

What does this job deliver? (Key accountabilities)

• Lead the framing of enterprise-level strategic priorities, problem statements and hypotheses for complex, ambiguous business challenges.
• Develop strategic options, evaluate trade-offs and shape evidence-based recommendations on growth, investment, operating model, customer, technology and transformation priorities.
• Oversee multiple complex strategic initiatives and senior workstreams, ensuring quality, integration, alignment and delivery against enterprise priorities.
• Advise senior executives through compelling, executive-ready narratives, decision forums and strategic workshops that clarify implications, risks, assumptions and choices.
• Lead stakeholder engagement strategies across business, finance, risk, operations and technology, managing competing priorities andinfluencing alignment across senior stakeholders.

Knowledge and Experience

• Deep knowledge of financial services, including customers, products and services, risk, regulation and enterprise performance drivers.
• Significant experience in an in-house strategy function, top-tier consulting firm, strategy boutique or equivalent executive advisory environment.
• Demonstrated ability to advise senior executives, challenge assumptions and influence enterprise-level decisions involving material trade-offs or investment choices.
• Strong consulting toolkit: hypothesis-driven problem solving, strategic option development, market and competitor analysis, business case development, storylining and executive facilitation.
• Experience leading senior project or workstream teams in complex environments, with accountability for quality, pace, stakeholder alignment and measurable business impact.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation communication skills, able to translate complex analysis into clear recommendations for senior leadership and Board audiences.
• Ability to balance enterprise-level strategic thinking with pragmatic execution and meticulous attention to detail.

Education
Degree-level or equivalent qualification; MBA or advanced business
qualification preferred

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