Senior Manager - Group Strategy - BFSI

Job Purpose: As more and more To drive important and critical engagement initiatives at group level, India Stack, Global Stack & cross-group collaboration resulting in an enhanced approach towards innovation, aiding group companies in their pursuit of delivering better business outcomes.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

- Drive cross-group collaboration across India Stack, Global Co-creation, innovation, cross-selling, new market analysis & GTM strategy

- Create exceptional benchmarking analysis across various industries, conduct cross-group collaboration and continuously deliver new market analysis

- Formulate a strong pulse of competition & market landscape, conduct market research and benchmark industry wide parameters. Provide detailed benchmarking analysis across major BFSI players

- Drive the India Stack engagement from design to execution

- Initiate multiple live projects with group companies across Digi locker, Account Aggregator & UHI, ONDC, AI4AI

- Conduct regular discussion with India Stack leadership and POCs to understand innovation and role of BFS group in driving them

- Develop and lead the global co-creation model, driving engagements and live projects with Big Techs

- Managing end-to-end relationships in all the phases of the project cycle

- Work with designated business and functional SPOCs across the group companies for seamless project execution

- Set KPIs and tracking metrics for all the live projects in conjunction with the business plan, build strategy to realize tangible impact

- Understand possible synergies with selected tech players, acquire information on their innovation relevant for the group and identify possible avenues of participating and collaboration

- Interface with group companies to drive critical cross selling initiatives & projects.

- Run pilot projects & experiments to innovate across existing products & distribution channels.

- Aid group companies in new product development and launch processes.

- Identify new initiatives & products to be discussed with group companies and provide strategic inputs to the group companies

- Assist the group strategy team in multiple Ad-hoc research projects

MAJOR CHALLENGES:

- Influence & Build Consensus of stake holders of various companies

- Manage objectivity of various initiatives

- Run parallel track of various initiatives

- Leverage the technology community engagement for brand building

5. DECISIONS:

- Key Metrices of projects - Identifying the right kind of start up for engagement

- Timelines of various projects - Quantify the possible synergies with group companies

- Execution guardrails of projects - Campus selection for employer branding

- Identifying the right kind of start up for engagement - Technology forum identification and means of engagement

- Quantify the possible synergies with group companies -

Recommendations to or approval by superior

- Strategic Direction

- Influencing group CEOS

INTERACTIONS:

(Describe the job roles that you interact with inside or outside the company to enable you to meet your accountabilities and the key expectations from these interactions. Also mention purpose).

Internal Interactions:

Roles you need to interact with inside the organization to enable success in your day to day work

- Group company SMT - Identifying the right kind of start up for engagement

- Technology teams across group companies - Quantify the possible synergies with group companies

- CEO's office - Campus selection for employer branding

External Interactions:

Roles you need to interact with outside the organization to enable success in your day to day work

- Technology companies and start ups - Quantify the possible synergies with group companies

- Government bodies - Campus selection for employer branding

- India Stack and governing bodies like Sahamati - Technology forum identification and means of engagement

- Interaction with startup founders - Campus selection for employer branding

- Engagement with PE VCs to understand the startup ecosystem dynamics - Technology forum identification and means of engagement

7. DIMENSIONS:

Financial Dimensions:

(These should be quantifiable numerical amounts like annual budgets, project costs, annual revenue, purchase value, no of transactions etc.).

Other Dimensions:

(Indication of some of the significant volumes associated with the job like number in team/ staff handled etc).

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SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:

- Postgraduate with 6+ years of experience in driving business strategy, understanding of cross-industry functions with a strong inclination towards innovation

- Good understand from Macro environment

- Prior experience in launching and executing innovative pilot projects and converting them to long term engagements

- Preferable MBA from top tier B-schools

- Exceptional stakeholder management with strong industry network

- Good to have exposure to at least few insurtech, healthtech & fintech innovations globally and locally

- Excellent communication & negotiation skills

- Exceptional knowledge of MS Office (Word, excel and power point)

- Prioritizing, time management and organizational skills

- Relationship management skills and openness to feedback

- Co-ordinating & collaboration with functional teams to share the feedback

- Highly motivated and target driven

Educational Qualifications

- MBA from Top Tier B School.

Functional Skills & Behavioral Skills:

- Postgraduate with 6+ years of experience in driving business strategy, understanding of cross-industry functions with a strong inclination towards innovation

- Good understand from Macro environment

- Prior experience in launching and executing innovative pilot projects and converting them to long term engagements

- Preferable MBA from top tier B-schools

- Exceptional stakeholder management with strong industry network

- Good to have exposure to at least few insurtech, healthtech & fintech innovations globally and locally

- Excellent communication & negotiation skills

- Exceptional knowledge of MS Office (Word, excel and power point)

- Prioritizing, time management and organizational skills

- Relationship management skills and openness to feedback

- Co-ordinating & collaboration with functional teams to share the feedback

- Relevant and total years of Experience

- Post graduate with 5+ Years of experience