Head - Strategy/Merger & Acqusition - Automotive Industry

Job description

Role & responsibilities :

- Driving the strategic initiatives and growth plans for the Automotive businesses.

- Identifying growth opportunities, managing mergers and acquisitions, and fostering strategic partnerships.

- Build multi year strategic financial models aligning financials to strategic goals

- Work closely with senior leadership to evaluate market trends, assess potential business opportunities, and execute initiatives that align with long-term goals.

- 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 topline / bottom-line improvement.

- Offer analytical support to Group company, CEO and top teams for the most important financial and strategic initiatives

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

Preferred candidate profile :

Education : MBA/PGDBM in Finance or Strategy/ CA/ CFA (preferably from premier institute)

- The candidate must have 10-15 years of experience in Automotive/Ancillary industry with a leading brand or with tier 1 & 2 consulting firms.

- He/she must have closely worked on growth, M&A, investment and transformation strategies within Automotive Industry.