VP - Business Strategy - BFSI

Designation: VP – Business Strategy

Location: Gurgaon

Company: One of the Leading Life Insurance COmpany.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

MINIMUM EDUCATION:

- Management Graduates from tier -1 business schools -with 10-12 years of experience

MINIMUM/SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE:

- Experience in “corporate strategy” and “planning” roles along with consulting will be an advantage

- Life insurance experience a plus, but not mandatory

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES:

- The ideal candidate will be a natural leader with excellent communication skills and a thoughtful, persuasive personal style.

- Self-starters who are comfortable in a project-oriented environment and comfortable in dealing with large cross functional projects. Being boundary-less is of critical importance as the job may require working through several business projects.

- We will value candidates with the ability to influence key stakeholders and operational owners through well articulated strategies backed up with metric driven value statements. It may even involve getting work done through cooperation with other groups with no direct reporting relationship to position

- Use analytical skills and judgment to solve problems with limited information at hand by learning and using Statistical tools and logics.

- Ability to develop, test and validate hypotheses. Should be competent at analyzing both quantitative and qualitative data.

- Communicate complicated matters in a simple, structured way to senior management

JOB SUMMARY:

Responsible for manage integrated projects of organisational importance within the Distribution area. The arrival is shaping them into regular processes / revenue lines on “build, operate and transfer” mode and work as consultants internal to the business.

Projects in this area will be of the variety that

- Strive to achieve company's vision of creating Platinum Agency

- Provide significant benefits to one or more stakeholders by bringing in the outside-in perspective

- Is transformational in nature and involves heavy intersection primarily with Distribution leaders/Business planning and CDO’s office to shape of the commitments we make as a business.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Deliver on projects with predetermined measures of success

- Work with cross functional teams (including consultants) to identify and analyse key levers impacting the process / work area

- Formulate strategic options, evaluate selected options and make recommendations on decisions involving investments or decisions, comprehensively to senior management along with program leaders

- Bring an outside in perspective to the business problem. Use networks within and outside of the industry to learn best practices and evaluate how they can be used and applied to Company's business problems.

- Build strategies, work closely with “planning” and drive change activities to achieve “best in class” competitiveness for the specific work area/ process

- Charting a path to help guide the company’s growth and in doing so, Understand and apply software technology and tax and accounting industry knowledge to guide strategic choices

MEASURES OF SUCCESS:

- Learning and continuous effort to perfect usage of template problem solving techniques, statistical tools and logics. Successful integration of Analytical solutions with Business processes and systems for ongoing usage.

- Successful archival of knowledge and dissemination of it across business functions

- Positive feedback and appreciation from business owners and decision makers.

- Demonstrated quantitative benefits of analytical solutions and their application in everyday business of the organization and achievement of project measures of success or the ROI signed off by shareholders / Board

Please Contact Sangeeta Shah