Senior Manager - Corporate Strategy - IIM/ISBFMS/MDI

Senior Manager - Corporate strategy

As the Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy, you would have the below key responsibilities :

- Provide advisory support to senior management, business leaders and functions

- Critically analyse business scenarios and create viewpoints to facilitate business decisions

- Focus on implementation and control as well as strategy development

- Ensure smooth execution of qualified corporate strategy projects, including scoping discussions and assigning resources, while juggling between both operational/tactical and strategic activities

- Actively contribute to defining the direction of new products, processes, standards or operational plans based upon business strategy, with a significant mid-term impact on business unit overall results

- Identify problems and significantly improve, change or adapt existing method and techniques

- Engage in regional/segment projects to lead teams under overall supervision

- Form and lead ad-hoc cross-functional teams to drive the projects to closure

Skills :

- Dealing with ambiguity - One of the key requirements of the role is to be able to navigate through ambiguity and assume a leadership position, self-starting in

- Structured problem solving - Given the dynamic environment we operate in, you would be expected to work through seemingly unstructured situations, identify the key business priorities and take the initiative to apply your creative problem skills

- Functional knowledge - You would be expected to apply working-level knowledge across all functions, namely, finance, marketing, product, sales, legal and other support functions

- Communication skills - Communicating problems and ideas in a structured and succinct manner, both in spoken and written English, for the purpose of inter-personal communication, presentations and business writing is a must have

- Team player - We strongly believe that individual success lies in the success of the team. To that end, we work as a non-hierarchical team and often in groups, supporting one another within the function and cross-functionally. We are keen to add another team player to the team

- Inter-personal skills - Your job would entail building professional relationships, putting together ad-hoc teams and often resolving conflicts

Essential qualifications : Business management graduate in General Management, Finance or Marketing, preferably from a tier-1 business school

Experience :

- Given the nature of the role, a candidate with 6-9 years of either corporate strategy or else strategy consultancy experience would be the right fit

- Preferred candidates from top-tier business schools and/or prior experience in consulting or corporate strategy role for a minimum of 4-6 years.