Senior Analyst / Program Lead - Corporate Strategy

Location: Bangalore

Role: Senior Analyst / Program Lead – Corporate Strategy

Job Responsibilities:

Planning

- Driving key enterprise wide initiatives (including Business Planning and Change Management)

- Identify key strategic issues facing the organization and give 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 profile.

- Monitoring metrics that are 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 strategy, 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 agenda & efficiency improvement projects with impact across the organization.

Strategic Insights

- Develop business cases and strategic options based on industry insights, internal capabilities, financial models, ROI analysis to support planning initiatives

- In terms of business development, facilitate competition bench-marking, deal benchmarking and prepare intelligent analysis on periodic basis

- As part of CXO refresh, prepare environment scans, competitor insights and reports on customers and present the same periodically .

- Conduct internal consulting project to support units

- Support CXO with briefing kits for any kind of engagements and other external stakeholders such as industry bodies, corporations and educational institutions/ universities.

Strategy Communication

- Managing all strategic communication from the CSO's office and interaction with the other stakeholders

- Keeping a track of important industry updates and review changes / developments closely to assess impact

- Anchor business planning and operational reviews periodically: Support in preparing the review decks and sharing insights with the CXO prior to the 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 the good quality and end user satisfaction.
• Work well with ambiguity.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, both quantitative and qualitative.
• Should have good understanding of data management and collection, modelling and interpretation across complex data sets
• 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 2 years PQE