Aditya Birla - Team Lead - Chairman's Office

A US $40 billion corporation, the Aditya Birla Group is in the League of Fortune 500. It is anchored by an extraordinary force of over 120,000 employees belonging to 42 different nationalities. The Group has been ranked Number 4 in the global 'Top Companies for Leaders' survey and ranked Number 1 in Asia Pacific for 2011. 'Top Companies for Leaders' is the most comprehensive study of organisational leadership in the world conducted by Aon Hewitt, Fortune Magazine, and RBL (a strategic HR and Leadership Advisory firm). The Group has topped the Nielsen's Corporate Image Monitor 2012-13 and emerged as the Number 1 corporate, the 'Best in Class'.

Identify improvement opportunities in existing businesses:

- This entails understanding and analyzing every business’s current performance (including competitive benchmarking) and identifying key areas that offer opportunities for improvement.

- Depending on the state of the business, this could be a sizeable effort or marginal effort.

Facilitate ongoing business planning & reviews (monthly, quarterly, annual, and ad-hoc):

- This entails managing the process/calendar for rhythmic business planning events and business reviews with the Chairman.

- Close interaction with the business team is crucial to ensure that Chairman has effective and efficient meetings.

- This also includes managing external relationships on behalf of the Chairman (e.g., Board members, JV partners, strategic investors).

Suggest/Assess longer-term strategic imperatives for existing businesses:

- This entails, primarily, evaluation of growth ideas presented by the businesses (e.g., an expansion, new line of business, an acquisition opportunity).

- In some cases, it might also include proactively generating growth ideas that the business hasn’t thought about (or the business is averse to).

Assess options for entry into new businesses:

- This entails constant endeavour to find growth opportunities for the group through ongoing scanning of trends. It may require collaboration with other corporate functions like CFG and CSBD.

Special projects:

- Anything that comes up on the Chairman’s agenda during the course of the year that isn’t covered in the goals above.

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