Manager - Strategic Initiatives - Education Startup - IIM/XLRI/SP Jain/IIT

A funded education startup operating a chain of schools in south and west India is looking to hire a Manager - Strategic Initiatives / New Businesses.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Our top priority is growth and tech enabled academic projects. This role requires you to work across various projects and tasks simultaneously. It will also require you to set priorities across projects. Your primary responsibility is to execute all the projects under you.This is essentially an implementation role reporting into the business head of the company. However, you will also be required to assist in key decision making processes and provide business judgement for these strategic projects.You will also be required to support ad-hoc projects and tasks assigned to you on an on-going basis.

The successful candidate will work across projects across departments, in a fast paced, team oriented, rapidly changing and high growth organization.

Skills

- Strong Project Management Skills

- Ability to champion change in the organization

- Ability to work with multiple stakeholders to ensure new projects are stabilized

- Manage conflict

- Manage timelines and budgets

- Execution Excellence

Qualifications and Requirements

- Graduate from IIT or MBA from IIM (ABCL), XLRI, SPJain only

- Work Experience of atleast 2- 5 years

- Strong interpersonal skills

- Ability to work in an ambiguous and rapidly changing environment

- Excellent written and oral communication skills

Compensation will not be a constraint for the right candidate.