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Senior Business Strategist

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AKQA

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South Africa, Johannesburg

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At AKQA innovation is a core value. Our multi-disciplinary teams are tasked with disrupting business models, designing customer experience strategies, and building product and service innovations that grow business and continuously deliver value. Our Intelligence CoE offers global business and growth consulting services, in strong collaboration with other AKQA disciplines. We partner with our clients to define and guide them through their digital transformation journey. We are currently looking for a Senior Business Strategist who will work at international level on strategic and organisational topics.

Job Responsibility:

  • Solve client briefs with a strategic point of view
  • Assess the viability of new innovation opportunities
  • Sizing opportunities
  • Building P&Ls
  • Engaging other team members and client representatives around a shared roadmap to implement brand and experience innovations
  • Combine qualitative-quantitative research, market analysis, data, analytics and problem-solving and business planning methods into recommendations that contribute to overall project deliverables

Requirements:

  • Analyse data, market trends, and industry benchmarks to provide data-driven insights
  • Build and maintain strong customer relationships by understanding their business needs, challenges, and objectives
  • Develop, research, analyse, and refine points of view and problems to solve
  • Define business models and innovative solutions by running (client) workshops and dynamic sessions
  • Translate a business model into a set of assumptions for a business plan and develop such business plan/ ROI modelling using market research, relevant benchmarks and own estimates
  • Understand and evaluate the operational impact of your strategic recommendations
  • Map and understand the organisational model of the client and identify challenges to solve as well as the key stakeholders
  • Measure project success using KPIs and comprehensive progress reports
  • Proactively creating and converting new revenue opportunities with new and existing clients
  • Experience in a senior role in business consulting, venture development, product management or customer experience, either at an agency or within an enterprise or product organisation
  • Experience defining and implementing growth, business and innovation strategies and initiatives across a range of industries
  • Depth of expertise developing commercially sound, end-end strategic plans for different types of innovation programmes
  • Good understanding of P&L of new/existing businesses and main cost/revenue drivers
  • Ability to translate a business model into a set of assumptions for a business plan using market research, relevant benchmarks and own estimates
  • Ability to evaluate the operational impact of strategic recommendations and define/monitor KPIs effectively
  • Understanding of how business, brands, and consumers interact, and how technology is impacting their lives
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English and the ability to interface with clients of a Head, Director, VP, and C-Suite seniority

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 16, 2025

Work Type:
Hybrid work
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