Manager - Strategy & Special Projects - IIM/ISB

Experience : 

- Must Have - 4 to 6 years of work experience

- Preferred - People having experience of working in CEO's office

Qualifications : IIMs / ISB

Job Description : 

- You'll work directly with the CEO and other leaders to drive strategic initiatives. Your work will cut across areas of strategic planning, operational excellence, governance and capability enhancement.

- You will assist the CEO in developing and communicating business vision and strategy. You will be able to utilize your varied experience to work on strategy and operations for high-impact projects while working with multiple stakeholders across functions and roles, including CXOs.

- You will need to ensure that all the stakeholders concerned adhere to the agreed action plan thereby monitoring the business performance.

Areas of Impact :

- This role requires working across all the teams in the organisation i.e. Sales, Marketing, Finance, HR, L&D, Recruitment, Legal, Operations and Technical Delivery

- Work involves driving performance across the geographies in India, Middle East, UK, USA and other geographies

Strategic Initiatives :

- Understand the strategic initiatives to be driven from the CEO Office

- With an eye on the potential outcomes, the CEO Office is trying to achieve, define deliverables and get different stakeholders on-board

- Ideate, analyse and validate different possible solutions and make recommendations

Business Consulting :

- Drive research, analysis, due diligence, and evaluation of solutions/propositions for both Greenfield and Brownfield projects

- Structure ambiguous problems adopting an analytical approach, create solution frameworks and blueprints

- Independently structure, write, and present well-organized and persuasive arguments before rolling out business plans

Legal & Compliance :

- Research and make recommendations on the legal aspects considering both internal and external factors that affect policy making, governance and operations

- Liaison with the Legal Counsel and ensure a balance between business interests and legal compliances

- Ensure that any exposure to risks is adequately accounted and the organisation has proper liability cover and insurance policies

- Ensure organisation is compliant to all labour laws, tax laws and regulations

Project Planning & Management :

- Prioritise projects on the basis of impact and effort required

- Break down the projects into actionable items and milestones

- Build required processes with focus on accuracy, efficiency and scalability

- Define and set up KPIs to monitor the health of the projects

Team Management :

- Interact and build the relationship with Internal and External stakeholders to ensure quick information availability

- Manage teams to ensure execution of specific projects initiated by the CEO

Pre-requisites of the Job :

- Distinctive project and team management skills

- Entrepreneurial zeal

- Maintain discretion and confidentiality in all communications

- Available 24x7 for all urgent matters

- Facilitate quick turnaround on various matters

- Maintain confidentiality of data

Must Have Attributes :

- Very strong problem solving / analytical skills and project management capabilities

- Potential to develop strong people management and selling skills for a leadership role in future

- Ability to perform duties under minimal supervision while exercising discretion and independent

- Result-oriented person

- Punctual to deliver the tasks on time specified

- Excellent communication skills

- Self-starter / multi-tasker, confident, resourceful, and with good presentation skills

- Willingness to get hands dirty

- Extremely high level of comfort with Excel, Word and PowerPoint