Head - Strategy - Business/Operations & Marketing - MBB

Head-Strategy responsibilities include -

- Communicating and implementing a company's strategy internally and externally so that all employees, partners, suppliers, and contractors understand the company-wide strategic plan and how it carries out the company's overall goals.

- Driving decision-making that creates medium- and long-term improvement.

- Establishing and reviewing key strategic priorities and translating them into a comprehensive strategic plan.

- Monitoring the execution of the strategic plan.

- Facilitating and driving key strategic initiatives through inception phase.

- Ensuring departmental/unit strategic planning projects reflect organizational strategic priorities.

- Partnering with institutional leadership, special committees, and consultants to support execution of key initiatives.

- Developing inclusive planning processes.

- Translating strategies into actionable and quantitative plans.

- Mobilizing and managing teams of individuals charged with executing strategies.

- Acting as a resource across an organization to increase broad cohesion for strategic plans.

In terms of the role, which varies significantly from the time of the year and goals of the period and evolves over time, the two basic roles strategy developer and strategy implementer are observable. This dichotomy can be further divided into four CSO archetypes

- Internal Consultant: focused almost exclusively on strategy formulation.

- Specialist: have specialized skills that are not otherwise present within an organization.

- Coach: work to provide information to strategy creators and facilitate communication between teams, team members and stakeholders.

- Change Agents: facilitate and enable.

The role is at a leading social enterprise based in Mumbai that are looking to build a Internal consulting outfit in-house and this role will be all about leading this vertical.