Enterprise Wide Strategic Manager

As a Strategic Initiatives Manager, you will play a critical role in driving key enterprise-wide initiatives. You will work closely with various stakeholders to conceptualize, design, and execute strategic initiatives that impact the organization.

• Drive key enterprise-wide initiatives, including business planning and change management.
• Identify key strategic issues facing the organization and provide insights and recommendations.
• Conceptualize, design, and execute key enterprise-wide strategic initiatives by working with various stakeholders.
• Forecast strategic and operational variables.
• Simulate and create best-fit plans based on market profiles.
• Monitor metrics relevant to strategic planning.
• Responsible for managing periodical reporting of strategy performance.
• Coordinate with internal functions for driving planning activities.

CXO Support:

• Support and manage CXOs interfacing with internal and external stakeholders.
• Work on go-to-market strategies, annual business-wise plans (both annual and long-term) - Identify growth opportunities, both short term and long term.

Strategic Initiative PMO:

• Lead and drive key strategic initiatives (PMO for strategic initiatives, which would be encompassing reporting/tracking activities to closure of a CXO-owned initiative – include management reviews and discussion forums).
• Deliver and design key strategic initiatives, transformation agendas, and efficiency improvement projects with impact across the organization.
• Develop comprehensive project plans for assigned tracks and ensuring their successful execution. Work closely with delivery teams and external consulting firms to ensure seamless project planning and execution.

Strategic Insights:

• Develop business cases and strategic options based on industry insights, internal capabilities, financial models, ROI analysis to support planning initiatives.
• Facilitate competition bench-marking, deal benchmarking, and prepare intelligent analysis on a periodic basis.
• Prepare environment scans, competitor insights, and reports on customers and present the same periodically.
• Conduct an internal consulting project to support units.
• Support CXOs with briefing kits for any kind of engagement and other external stakeholders such as industry bodies, corporations, and educational institutions/universities.

Strategy Communication:

• Manage all strategic communication from the CSO’s office and interaction with other stakeholders.
• Keeping track of important industry updates and review changes/developments closely to assess impact.
• Anchor business planning and operational reviews periodically: Support in preparing review decks and sharing insights with CXOs prior to reviews.

Capabilities/Skill Sets:

• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Exercise considerable judgment in building relationships across all levels in the organization.
• Work collaboratively across functions to create buy-in to achieve deliverables Ability to work under limited supervision.
• Work well under high pressure and produce timely deliverables in a fast-paced environment with good quality and end-user satisfaction.
• Work well with ambiguity.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, both quantitative and qualitative.
• Should have a good understanding of data management and collection, modelling, and interpretation across complex datasets.
• Good understanding of Financial statements.
• Strong written and oral communication skills (including presentation skills), with attention to detail.
• Should have excellent presentation skills and ability to convert strategic ideas into actionable and communicate them.
• Strategic, analytical, statistical, and optimization background and lateral thinker.

Qualification:

Full-time MBA (preferably from tiered B-school) / CA.

Experience: Minimum 3 years PQE.