Head of Strategic Planning, Strategy Execution & Performance

Job Summary:Manages the bank’s Strategic Planning, Strategy execution, and Performance department. Translates Board-approved strategic direction into a structured roadmap, cascades it bank-wide, tracks execution against plan, and maintains a regular reporting: weekly execution dashboard, monthly senior management strategy review, and quarterly Board strategy review. Use outputs from the Economic, Market & Competitors Research Department to support planning assumptions, KPI target-setting, peer benchmarking, scenario testing, and strategy updates. Also coordinates global trend scanning, innovation integration, and strategic partnerships.Job Responsibilities:Coordinate the annual strategic planning cycle: translate the bank’s medium and long-term strategic direction into a roadmap and annual plan with defined objectives, prioritized initiatives, KPIs, resource requirements, and implementation timelines across all business lines and support functions.Maintain the strategy roadmap and strategic assumptions log and update according to Board decisions, macro or market shifts, or competitive dynamics.Manage the prioritization of strategic initiatives using qualitative and quantitative criteria such as strategic fit, resource requirements, expected return, and time-to-impact.Support alignment between the strategic plan, annual budget, and resource allocation priorities in coordination with Finance, Treasury and Risk.Own the strategy execution governance framework: accountability assignments, reporting cadence, escalation thresholds, and decision rights for all approved strategic initiatives.Track initiative milestones and deliverables. Identify deviations such as delays, scope changes, resource gaps, or assumption failures, corrective actions and escalate issues requiring senior management decision or resource reallocation.Conduct post-initiative reviews on completed programmed: document outcomes versus plan, diagnose gaps, and capture lessons for future cycles.Produce the monthly strategy review for senior management: performance against KPIs and business plan targets, gap analysis, initiative status, and recommended corrective actions.Cascade the approved strategy and annual roadmap bank-wide: translate strategic objectives into functional priorities, initiatives, KPIs, and targets.Manage the strategy communication calendar and embed operational and financial efficiency KPIs within the governance framework.Facilitate quarterly alignment sessions with business line and function heads to review progress against cascaded objectives, cross-functional dependencies, and recalibrate priorities where needed.Lead and develop the team: set clear priorities, maintain high output standards, and build capability in structured analysis, financial modelling, and executive communication.Manage cross-functional relationships with Finance, Risk, Technology, Change Management, and business lines to ensure strategic planning, execution tracking, and performance reporting are embedded in the bank’s operating rhythm.Job Qualifications:Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or a related field.Master’s degree or MBA is preferred.From 9-12 years of relevant experience in strategic planning, strategy execution, performance management, business planning, transformation, or banking strategy. Direct experience in banking or financial services is strongly preferred.Previous experience leading a team and managing cross-functional stakeholders is required.Strategy, performance management, project management, business analysis or similar professional certifications are a plus.