Head - Strategy & M&A - Consumer Durables

Roles & Responsibilities :

- Devise and execute strategic business initiatives in partnership with leadership.

- Market entry strategy, market positioning, competitor analysis etc

- Create internal buy-ins for defined strategy and stakeholder management.

- Incubate & operationalize the opportunity including M&A where necessary.

- On-board new team / transfer ownership to business team

- Develop and work with a "high performance" team to deliver the key objectives.

- Offer project management and process support to the company, CEO and top teams for top line / bottom-line improvement.

- Offer analytical support to Group company, CEO and top teams for the most important financial and strategic initiatives (e.g., critical new product introductions, specific M&A)

- Codify and disseminate best practices from different companies and identify strong performers who can deploy these in various situations.

Essential Qualification :

- The ideal candidate is a person with a Post Graduate Degree from Premium B-Schools or Technology Institutes.

- The candidate must have at least 7-18 years of experience in tier 1 & 2 consulting firms or Big 4 and having closely worked on growth and transformation strategies with hands on experience working on industries like FMCG, FMCD and paints.

- Preferably aligned to one or two Industry or Functional Areas (though may also lead projects outside these areas on occasion).

Professional Skills :

- Leadership skills:- Candidate must have demonstrated leadership skills in earlier assignments and able to envision projects of importance.

- Go-getter:- Candidates are expected to have the attitude of delivering results come what may. Those who have the 'fire' to turn things around and create new things will be preferred.

- Strategic Thinker:- Understands the overall ambitions of the Group, and how the ambitions can be realized.

- Good execution skills:- Able to implement strategies by thinking through steps of implementation, taking practical / operational decisions, motivating execution team to action, and putting personal effort as needed.-

- Analytical and problem-solving skills:- Able to analyse / process vast amounts of data and information and gain insights to enable business acceleration. Able to dissect a problem into parts, prioritize issues, find data necessary to support analysis and come out with creative and practical solutions for implementation.