Strategy Analyst

Overview

Strategy Analyst

Based in Washington DC or other location in the US

Up to 10% international travel

Reports to Head, Market Dynamics and Analytics

Who we are

With over 50 years of experience, working in over 50 countries, Population Services International (PSI) is the world’s leading non-profit social marketing organization. PSI is reimagining healthcare, by putting the consumer at the center, and wherever possible – bringing care to the front door. We are working to fix market failures, shape future health markets and shift policy and funding to better support consumer empowered healthcare.

There are over 7,000 “PSI’ers” around the world. We are a diverse group of entrepreneurial development professionals with a wide range of backgrounds and experience. All with unique skills that we bring to the critically important work that we do.

Join us!

The Strategy & Insights team champions insight-driven prioritization across PSI, ensuring we are “doing the right things” even as we work on “doing things right.” The team promotes best practice in program design, marketing discipline, research, learning, and strategy development. The team works with other departments to systematically capture, synthesize, and share internal and external evidence, consumer and market insights, competitive market intelligence and program experience to guide global, market level, and program level strategy.

We are looking for Strategy Analyst to help us gather competitive intelligence, monitor trends affecting PSI’s global strategy, develop an approach for and executes a systematic mapping of PSI competitors and partners providing dynamic insights on PSI’s market positioning, code PSI’s project portfolio to identify organizational evolution, and support department leadership to develop analyses and presentations for the executive team and Board of Directors in compelling visual and written form.

Sound like you? Read on.

Responsibilities

Your contribution

Gather competitive intelligence and model trends affecting PSI’s global strategy

• Understand changing health conditions, global and regional economic outlook, and donor strategies
• Gather competitive intelligence, including through reviewing donor and other INGO reports to identify salient theme, identify trends, and generate strategic insights for PSI
• Liaise with PSI experts working across the organization to understand how global trends are affecting and manifesting in PSI’s programming
• Synthesize and communicate findings to highlight potential opportunities and risks to PSI’s Strategy. Contribute recommendations to respond to evolving conditions

Develop an approach for and executes a systematic mapping of PSI competitors providing dynamic insights on PSI’s market positioning

• With department leadership develop a structure for understanding and analyzing the competitor landscape
• Maintain a searchable database of historical and new competitors globally and across PSI’s network.
• Prepare insightful infographics and other presentation materials for PSI senior leadership and Board of Directors

Code PSI’s project portfolio to identify organizational evolution

• Analyzes and synthesizes insights on the type, scope, and content of ‘wins’ in PSI’s fundraising department and the evolution of these projects
• Produce insights on PSI’s project portfolio that inform fundraising, overall risk assessment, and resource allocation
• Present insights that address how PSI is “doing the right things”, i.e advancing our strategy, or just “doing things right.”

Support department leadership to develop analyses and presentations for the executive team and Board of Directors

• Use Excel and other tools to analyze key operating data to produce insightful learnings informing PSI’s strategic approach
• Build and articulate a compelling narrative in visual and written format, including PowerPoint presentationsQualifications

What are we looking for?

The candidate we hire will embody PSI’s corporate values:

• Collaboration: You can work independently, but thrive within a team.
• Trust: You trust that your manager and team will have your back and care deeply about gaining that same trust from your teammates
• Pragmatism: You dive in and maintain momentum even when things are ambiguous and you don’t let perfect get in the way of good enough.
• Honesty: You aren’t afraid to speak up and speak your mind.
• Measurement: You set clear and challenging goals and hold yourself accountable to driving measurable results.
• Commitment: You’re independent and a free thinker, but you’re ready to buy in to the direction of the team and commit to its success.

The basics

• At least 3 years of related experience required. Experience in management/strategy consulting or experience in a organizational strategy department at a large corporation preferred.
• Bachelor’s Degree (or international equivalent) in Economics or a related field required. Master’s Degree (or international equivalent) in business, analytics, or strategy preferred.
• Ability to read, digest, and synthesize data and reports, drawing out the data that will be impactful.
• Ability to quickly grasp key concepts in a new field, analyze data from a variety of sources, and produce well-articulated recommendations.
• Exceptional analytical capacity, including integration of quantitative and qualitative insights.
• Strong English-language written and verbal communication skills.
• You are proficient in Microsoft Office, including experience with MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel in order to analyze data and communicate findings through infographics and professional presentations.
• A passion for driving strategic change in the interest of improved global health outcomes.
• Ability to function in a dynamic environment and respond to changing priorities.
• Ability to produce high-quality work with rapid turnaround.
• References will be required.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States. PSI will not consider work visa sponsorship for this position.
• The successful candidate will be required to pass a background check.

STATUS

• Exempt or Non- Exempt

*Due to high volume of applications, only finalists will be contacted. Curious about your status? Please log into your iCIMS account to find out.

PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of actual or perceived race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, personal appearance, matriculation, political affiliation, family status or responsibilities, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions or breastfeeding, genetic information, amnesty, veteran, special disabled veteran or uniform service member status or employment status.

ACCESSIBILITY NOTICE: If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process due to a physical or mental disability, please send an email to: [email protected] or call (202)785-0072.

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