Lead Strategy

Job description

**ROLE OVERVIEW:** The incumbent will work closely with senior leadership on high-impact strategic initiatives across businesses, with a focus on driving growth, transformation, and business performance. The incumbent will play a key role in driving strategic priorities, tracking execution of key initiatives, and supporting leadership on matters relating to business performance, portfolio strategy, operational transformation, and long-term value creation. **QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:** - BE/B.Tech./B.Com. in any stream, from Top Colleges/Universities. - MBA from top B-Schools or Qualified CA. - Minimum 8 years of work experience in Strategy, M&A, Investments role. **KEY REQUIREMENTS:** - Relevant experience in Strategy, Chairman’s/Founder’s Office, Consulting, Investment Banking, Corporate Finance, Transformation roles. - Strong business acumen with the ability to understand complex business models and strategic issues across sectors. - Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and structured thinking capabilities. - Strong financial modelling and quantitative analysis skills are essential. - Proven ability to independently manage workstreams and interact with senior stakeholders. - Excellent communication, executive presentation, and stakeholder management skills. - High degree of ownership, maturity, confidentiality, and execution orientation. - Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-visibility, and collaborative environment. - MBA from a premier institute / CA with strong academic credentials preferred. **KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:** - Partner with senior leadership in shaping and driving business strategy across various business verticals (Wholesale, Retail). - Lead strategic initiatives and special projects spanning growth strategy, transformation, operational improvement, business incubation, M&A, and organization-wide priorities. - Structure broad and ambiguous business problems into actionable workstreams through hypothesis-driven analysis, research, and stakeholder engagement. - Conduct detailed market research, competitive benchmarking, industry analysis, and emerging trend assessment to support strategic decision-making. - Develop robust financial models, business cases, scenario analyses, and investment evaluations for strategic initiatives and transactions. - Work closely with business CXOs and cross-functional teams to drive key projects and ensure alignment across stakeholders. - Support leadership reviews through creation of high-quality presentations, dashboards, management updates, and executive communication material. - Drive program management for strategic initiatives including planning, governance, milestone tracking, budgeting, issue resolution, and ROI measurement. - Monitor business and operational performance metrics and identify risks, opportunities, and areas requiring management intervention. - Identify key business risks and execution challenges and proactively drive mitigation and resolution plans. ***Piramal is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or religion.***