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Research Executive - Futurist
Safaricom
Job at a glance
- Employer
- Safaricom
- Position
- Research Executive - Futurist
- Location
- Kenya
- Job type
- Full-time
- Experience
- 3-5 years in research or analytics
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field
- Salary
- Not stated in the advert
- Application deadline
- 6 November 2026
- Posted on VacancyKE
- 29 October 2026
VacancyKE summary
Safaricom is hiring a Research Executive - Futurist to identify and interpret future market, customer, technology, and societal shifts. You will gather evidence, maintain intelligence tools, and translate findings into practical insights for planning, innovation, and risk management.
What stands out about this opportunity
- Focuses on strategic foresight and futures intelligence
- Uses AI-assisted tools for forecasting
- Reports directly to the Research Manager
Key responsibilities
- Conduct horizon scanning across social, technological, economic, environmental, political, and regulatory domains.
- Identify trends, weak signals, and potential disruptions affecting customers and business models.
- Support development of scenarios, trend radars, and foresight frameworks.
- Gather, clean, and analyse data to understand customer and market direction.
- Track leading indicators and flag material changes, opportunities, or risks using AI-assisted tools.
- Monitor competitors, adjacent industries, emerging technologies, and new business models.
- Maintain competitor profiles, intelligence trackers, and draft timely alerts on threats and opportunities.
- Synthesise findings into concise reports, presentations, and executive-ready summaries.
Who should apply?
This role suits professionals with 3-5 years in research, market intelligence, or analytics who have an interest in strategic foresight and predicting market shifts.
Key requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field
- 3-5 years research/analytics experience
- Horizon scanning skills
- Data cleaning and analysis ability
- Competitor monitoring expertise
Nice to have
- Practical exposure to trends, forecasting, futures thinking, or predictive analysis.
- Strategic foresight or analytics certification.
How to apply
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The employer’s advert
What we’re looking for;
In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below
Reporting to the Research Manager , the role purpose is as highlighted below;
Role purpose:
The role of the Research Executive is to support the identification and interpretation of future market, customer, technology, competitive and societal shifts. The role gathers and analyses evidence, maintains intelligence tools and translates findings into practical insights that inform planning, innovation and risk management.
Responsibilities
1. Strategic foresight and futures intelligence | 30%
•Conduct horizon scanning across social, technological, economic, environmental, political and regulatory domains.
•Identify and document trends, weak signals and potential disruptions.
•Analyse possible implications for customers, markets and business models.
•Support the development of scenarios, trend radars and foresight frameworks.
•Prepare materials and evidence for future-thinking workshops.
2. Predictive intelligence and forecasting | 20%
•Gather, clean and analyse data used to understand customer and market direction.
•Track leading indicators and flag material changes, opportunities or risks.
•Use approved analytics and AI-assisted tools to support forecasts.
•Prepare evidence-based projections and clearly state assumptions and limitations.
3. Market and competitive intelligence | 40%
•Monitor competitors, adjacent industries, emerging technologies and new business models.
•Maintain competitor profiles, intelligence trackers and regular market updates.
•Analyse how market shifts may affect revenue, brand and customer experience.
•Draft timely alerts on emerging threats and opportunities.
•Support identification of whitespace opportunities for future growth.
4. Insight communication and business support | 10%
•Synthesise findings into concise reports, presentations and executive-ready summaries.
•Provide evidence and analysis to support strategy and innovation teams.
•Collaborate with internal stakeholders and research partners to deliver agreed outputs.
•Escalate important signals and emerging risks with clear supporting evidence.
Qualifications
•Bachelor’s degree in economics, data science, strategic management, anthropology, business, research or a related field.
•Approximately 3-5 years of experience in research, market intelligence, analytics, strategy or a related discipline.
•Practical exposure to trends, forecasting, futures thinking or predictive analysis is desirable.
•A strategic foresight or analytics certification is an added advantage.
In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below
Reporting to the Research Manager , the role purpose is as highlighted below;
Role purpose:
The role of the Research Executive is to support the identification and interpretation of future market, customer, technology, competitive and societal shifts. The role gathers and analyses evidence, maintains intelligence tools and translates findings into practical insights that inform planning, innovation and risk management.
Responsibilities
1. Strategic foresight and futures intelligence | 30%
•Conduct horizon scanning across social, technological, economic, environmental, political and regulatory domains.
•Identify and document trends, weak signals and potential disruptions.
•Analyse possible implications for customers, markets and business models.
•Support the development of scenarios, trend radars and foresight frameworks.
•Prepare materials and evidence for future-thinking workshops.
2. Predictive intelligence and forecasting | 20%
•Gather, clean and analyse data used to understand customer and market direction.
•Track leading indicators and flag material changes, opportunities or risks.
•Use approved analytics and AI-assisted tools to support forecasts.
•Prepare evidence-based projections and clearly state assumptions and limitations.
3. Market and competitive intelligence | 40%
•Monitor competitors, adjacent industries, emerging technologies and new business models.
•Maintain competitor profiles, intelligence trackers and regular market updates.
•Analyse how market shifts may affect revenue, brand and customer experience.
•Draft timely alerts on emerging threats and opportunities.
•Support identification of whitespace opportunities for future growth.
4. Insight communication and business support | 10%
•Synthesise findings into concise reports, presentations and executive-ready summaries.
•Provide evidence and analysis to support strategy and innovation teams.
•Collaborate with internal stakeholders and research partners to deliver agreed outputs.
•Escalate important signals and emerging risks with clear supporting evidence.
Qualifications
•Bachelor’s degree in economics, data science, strategic management, anthropology, business, research or a related field.
•Approximately 3-5 years of experience in research, market intelligence, analytics, strategy or a related discipline.
•Practical exposure to trends, forecasting, futures thinking or predictive analysis is desirable.
•A strategic foresight or analytics certification is an added advantage.