Wiggles - Business Strategy Manager

Business Strategy Manager

In this role, you will play an important part in helping us build and launch new products/services, iterate to get to product-market fit, build strategic partnerships, design go-to-market strategies and establish key business opportunities. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is looking for exponential growth, fast learning, and a chance to lead by example in a thriving startup environment.

In reality, this role doesn't come with a definition or a checklist of job responsibilities. As Business Strategy Manager, you will be expected to have a whatever-it-takes approach to help the founders on some of the key business areas.

- Assist founders in identifying key business opportunities, develop revenue streams and planning their execution

- Work closely with various teams driving their KPIs

- Manage Investor and advisor relations

- Come up with solutions to key business problems and process improvement

- Research on market size, business opportunities and industries to build depth in day to day communications

- Drive weekly/monthly update meetings with the founders and vertical leads

- Assessing market trends and competitors.

- Work directly with the founders to solve key product problems and develop new revenue channels.

- Planning, implementing and managing proposed recommendations and projects.

- Conduct customer development conversations, carry out market and industry research and iterate on product-value propositions with live customers to arrive at product-market fit.

- Build and establish powerful business and data partnerships that can drive the growth of our products.

- Build a partner ecosystem that can help us in shaping our product roadmap and unlocking growth opportunities.

- Bring together our existing product offerings and design new ones to drive key business metrics for the company.

- Research, model, evaluate, and plan go-to-market strategies.

- Work closely across multiple functions (product, growth, sales, and R&D) to optimize and execute strategic partnerships.

- Develop and build relationships across the data ecosystem to further help us strengthen our business.

- Owns strategic plans and ensures compliance with these strategies.

- Responsible for the development of a decentralized activity planning process and ensuring its adoption across the businesses.

- Collaborates with executives and managers to develop long-range, strategic goals for the organization.

- Identifies and reviews pricing and market trends; analyzes and applies this information in the development of strategies for individual market segments.

Must Have :

- Strong analytical skills and orientation towards building scalable processes

- Outcome oriented with a problem solving attitude

- Entrepreneurial mindset to manage multiple work streams at the same time

- High ownership, drive and the experience of working independently in unstructured environments

- Ability to work closely with cross-functional teams within tight timelines

- Extremely good communication skills (written and verbal)

- Comfortable in fast paced and demanding work environments