Associate Director

Job Description Designation - Associate Director (Business Strategy & Operations) Department - CEO's office Location - Bangalore Brief company description Practo, a technology based startup in the healthcare space is on a mission to make quality healthcare affordable and accessible to over a billion+ Indians. At Practo, we believe in empowering our users with the most accurate & curated information and quality care, enabling them to make better healthcare decisions. Practo wants to make a journey to a healthier lifestyle easy for every Indian, and help people live healthier and longer lives. What you are expected to do: From day one, the candidate will impact productivity, streamline strategic initiatives, oversee program management, and communicate objectives between departments. Key responsibilities involve (but are not limited to) - Core responsibilities - Act as a key strategic advisor to the CEO and senior management team - Act as a project manager for high level, cross functional projects across businesses - Serve as a subject matter expert, handling inquiries and developing action plans to address them - Help define SOPs for multiple segments of the organization - Help develop the strategic roadmap for Practo and consequent programs, including those that are underway and new initiatives - Foresee and escalate issues that may come up, suggest alternate solutions to the CEO/ program team, drive decision making on the same - Program management - Help define key deliverables from all programs, metrics to be measured/ milestones and track progress in close coordination with program teams - Help define ways to improve delivery of key metrics of the organization and of programs - Ensure timely and effective completion of projects and initiatives of the CEO - Create and maintain systems and processes to streamline operations - Stakeholder engagement and communication - Understand key stakeholders in the system and the engage with them on business decisions and strategy - Act as the liaison between CEO and other stakeholders to ensure clear and consistent communication & decision making - What are we looking for: Basic qualifications: - You should have overall 5+ yrs of experience both pre & post MBA and should have 3+ years of working experiencein tier 1 consulting firm - MBA from top tier B-School in India& pre MBA 2 +yrs of experience in Consulting/ Strategy//Sales /Finance /Marketing - Ability to contribute to discussions about technology and strategy of a product - Experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver products customers love - Demonstrated capability of delivering products in a complex and fast-paced environment using agile processes - Experience in healthcare sector preferred (At a provider, Health-tech, pharma, diagnostics, etc. or in a start-up) Desirable Traits: - Extremely versatile, dedicated, and a high output efficiency - Integrity / ethics / morals and values consistent with those of Practo - Personal and professional credibility needed to build and maintain strong internal and external relationships - Desire to be involved in the community an optimistic and engaging personality What's in it for you: - Opportunity to directly work with the top business leaders and build strategic roadmap and plans - Ideate, build and scale cutting edge health-tech solution to solve for existing and future business problems in the healthcare space - Access to cross BU and functional problem solving opportunities that will provide steep learning curve and growth - Explore various roles and transition into a leadership positions across functions and businesses in 18-24 months