Head - Strategy & Planning - eCommerce - IIT/IIM/ISB

Head -Strategy & Planning

Role & Responsibility:

- Provide strategic direction for the overall vision, planning and management to build India's largest consumer app/web product and Intelligence Marketing platform including ecommerce, targeted advertising and payments

- Formulation of strategy, commercial model and project plan of the intelligence marketing business, including coalition loyalty, consumer engagement, campaigns and analytics

- Delivering strategic thinking and presentations on business, market, opportunities and project on a regular basis

- Leading project planning, monitoring and reviews of all workstreams with management

- Managing reporting on business plans, project implementation tracking, issues, risks, new initiatives to senior executive management stakeholders

- Designing and owning the financial business plan including forecasts, budgets, variances

- Responsible for market research, competitive analysis and identifying the latest trends in the consumer engagement, insights, loyalty and marketing space

- Involved in partner alliances identification, evaluation, negotiation, and implementation

- Involved in business development finance for business case preparation and validation with prospective merchant clients, as well as delivering ROI

- Identifying and driving opportunities for strategic partnerships in the industry across product, technology, marketing, commercial, etc.

- Identifying and driving new opportunities for business growth

- Monitoring of KPIs and identifying issues and recommending solutions / opportunities

REPORTING TO President / CEO,

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE 10-12 YEARS

Candidate Qualification and skill sets:

- BE/ BTech and MBA from a premier Tier 1 institute such as IIT/IIM/ ISB/US-Ivy Leagues

- 10 -12 years of experience in consulting and/or strategy function in a reputed company

- Should have experience in consumer technology businesses in any of the following - tech consulting, consumer insights and marketing, program management, market strategy design, business analytics

- Strategic thinker, planner and ability to author strategy and execution plans

- Financial modelling, commercial and business acumen

- Ability to derive business actionable insights from large datasets

- High degree of initiative, personal responsibility and ownership

- Excellent PowerPoint, Excel, Project skills

Target Industries:

Consulting, Ecommerce, Industry Group Strategy function