Deputy Chief Manager - Strategy - Pharma/FMCG Business

Deputy Chief Manager Strategy

JOB OVERVIEW:

KEY STAKEHOLDERS: INTERNAL: Business Heads, Other CXOs, Legal, Compliance, Investor Relations, select Board members

KEY STAKEHOLDERS: EXTERNAL: Consultants, Investment Bankers

REPORTING STRUCTURE:

Will report to :Vice President - Strategy

Team size: 3

QUALIFICATION: Full time MBA in Marketing / Operations / Finance / Strategy from Premier B-School

EXPERIENCE: 4 to 7 years of experience in Corporate Strategy, Business Strategy, or M&A, preferably from Pharma, FMCG, Chemicals, or MedTech industries open to talent across sectors.

CRITICAL QUALITIES:

- Ability to work strategically and collaboratively across businesses, functions, geographies

- High focus on quantitative and qualitative analysis, scenario planning and business profitability

- Sound understanding of strategy, pharma operations, M&A, Finance

- Ability to liaise effectively with key stakeholders

- Drive execution and program management while influencing without authority

- Good interpersonal and communication skills

ROLES & RESPONSIBLITIES:

- Drive strategic business initiatives from origination, development and successful execution in alignment with business strategy across multiple stakeholders spread across in multiple geographies

- Drive strategically important large programs and projects in the each of the businesses and/or at PPL level

- Assist Head-Strategy in each of PPLs 3 businesses PPS, PCC, and CPD in o Identification of key market trends and changes in paradigm

- Identifying key shifts such as innovation capabilities, sustainability, digitization, analytics, business model review, M&A that can radically change the way PPL operates

- Development of strategic roadmap and long range plan for the organization

- Developing holistic solutions and subsequently initiatives for complex problems in the organization

- Establishing leading governance practices for key governance fora in the organization (e.g., Board meeting, Pharma Exec. Council, etc.)

- Developing collaterals for key review meetings (e.g., Board meeting, Pharma Exec. Council, etc.) on business related topics

- Developing externally facing content for conferences, media interactions and other external fora

- Serve as a key liaison between ExCom members and other key senior leaders of individual businesses, regarding various aspects of the business