Manager - Corporate Planning - Manufacturing Firm

Support Senior Management in strategic decision making by providing research, analysis, and insights in the areas of evaluating strategic entry opportunities for growth, formulating business strategies, driving cost management initiatives, coordinating excellence program, etc.

Specifically, this execution focused role is responsible to :

- Lead a project team for timely delivery of projects with high quality deliverables with research, analysis and presentation, managing administration and coordination aspects of the project

- Take lead in conceptualization of new methodologies/ tools/ models to design a holistic solution for the project and guide the project team members

1. Strives to quickly gain an understanding of structure of the organisation, nature of business(es) and related value chains

Project Planning and Design :

2. Understands and maps in detail the scope of projects and key expectations (desired outcome and what value it will add to the business)

3. Develops clear approach & applies strategic structured thinking process to execute projects (framework development, research methodology, sources of information, timelines)

Project Execution :

4. Analyses gathered information (primary and secondary research) by applying strategic frameworks /tools (e.g. Porter's five forces, VRIO, SWOT etc.) to derive relevant insights

5. Performs advanced quantitative data (statistical/ econometric) analysis (MS-Excel and other software packages)

6. Leads in delivering the insights via effective presentations (concise, backed up with logic/data) -

Knowledge development/ Practice Development :

7. Proactively takes initiatives on knowledge building and knowledge sharing within the team

Project Coordination :

8. Engages actively with various stakeholders to achieve project objectives

9. Works with external agencies (detailing scope, evaluating proposals, reviewing progress, evaluating delivered output/insights) to execute the projects, if required