Strategic Operations Analyst

Strategic Analyst

The Strategic Analyst turns data into actionable insights to inform organizational strategy, optimize operations, and guide investment and transformation decisions. They partner with leaders to analyze market dynamics, performance trends, and operational bottlenecks—translating findings into recommendations and implementation roadmaps.

Core Responsibilities

• Strategy & Insights: Build models and dashboards to assess growth opportunities, cost drivers, risk scenarios, and portfolio performance.
• Market & Competitor Analysis: Monitor market trends, competitor moves, pricing shifts, and regulatory changes; translate implications into strategy briefs.
• Operational Optimization: Identify process inefficiencies, quantify value levers, and partner with ops to execute improvements.
• Financial Modeling: Support business cases (ROI, NPV, sensitivity analyses) for initiatives, investments, or tech deployments.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Facilitate workshops; communicate findings to execs with story-driven visuals and clear recommendations.
• Experimentation & Evaluation: Design pilots, define success metrics, and run post-implementation reviews to ensure value realization.

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Skills and Requirements

Skills

• Strategic thinking: Structured problem solving (MECE, hypothesis-driven); market research.
• Communication: Executive storytelling; crisp synthesis; strong written deliverables.
• Stakeholder management: Influence without authority; cross-functional collaboration.

Tools

• Frameworks: Porter's Five Forces, SWOT, PESTLE, OKRs, cost-to-serve, value-chain analysis.
• Quantitative analysis: Excel/SQL proficiency; statistical reasoning; scenario/sensitivity modeling.
• BI & Data Visualization: Power BI or Tableau; ability to build executive-ready dashboards.

Certifications (by category)

• Strategy & Business Analysis
• PMI-PBA® (Professional in Business Analysis) – robust for requirements and value delivery.
• CBAP® (Certified Business Analysis Professional) – advanced BA credential.
• CIMA CGMA® (Management Accounting) – finance/strategy lens.
• Analytics & Data
• Tableau Desktop Specialist / Certified Data Analyst or Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst (PL-300) – for dashboarding and BI.
• Google Data Analytics Certificate – foundational analytics skills.
• AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty or Azure Data Scientist Associate – for cloud data/ML environments.
• Financial & Investment
• CFA® (Chartered Financial Analyst) – if role includes deep investment and valuation analysis.
• FMVA® (Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst) – practical modeling skills.
• Lean & Process Optimization
• Lean Six Sigma Green/Black Belt – process improvement, statistical process control.
• Project/Change Enablement
• PMP® (Project Management Professional) or PRINCE2® – if role aligns tightly to delivery/implementation.
• Prosci® Change Management – stakeholder adoption and change execution.
• Competitive/Market Intelligence
• SCIP courses (Strategic & Competitive Intelligence Professionals) – for structured market/CI practices.