Manager - Corporate Strategy - Media House

Prominent Media House - M&A and Corporate Strategy

Job Description: This position will require the individual to support the Group companies in corporate development initiatives. The candidate will play a key role in collaborating with both internal and external stakeholders in the development of business wide operational strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Decision Support:

- Group has over 30+ businesses across media, digital & education segments. Our team works with shareholders directly and assist in strategic and capital allocation decisions for all group businesses.

- Work with management teams of individual businesses to evaluate new business opportunities, capital investments and M&A activities.

- Study the market opportunity, map competition, analyze white spaces, evaluate product & go to market strategy and recommend organic/ inorganic investments to shareholders.

Operating & Corporate Finance activities for group businesses:

- Annual Budgeting & Quarterly Business performance reviews for the group businesses.

- Corporate restructuring activities.

- Assist management team with research related to operating activities.

New Business Initiatives:

- To be responsible for initiating discussions on new market segments that the group should enter. These are generally greenfield ventures.

- Scan the market and stay up to date on new trends, products and new market opportunities.

- Study new and interesting segments and recommend market entry options and strategy for the group.

- Support and guide the management team on the new businesses that Group does not have prior presence in. Hence, develop initial strategy and assists shareholders with recruitment and setup of the management team to deliver on these new businesses.

- To be focused on building digital products and revenue models for our existing primarily offline businesses.

Strategic & Financial Investments:

- Actively seek minority investments in strategic business segments, esp. tech enabled business models.

- Run the M&A/ fund raise process, as required for any of the group companies.

- Have a strong focus on digital businesses for investments.

The candidate would have the opportunity to lead corporate strategy and decision support for group companies over a five to seven year horizon.

Qualifications and skills:

- 2-3 years' experience in financial modeling, company analysis, industry research and competitive benchmarking.