Canara HSBC Life - Vice President - Strategy

Role & responsibilities:

- The Head of Strategy is responsible for the development of effective strategies and driving them towards execution in order to create value for our stakeholders and transform the business.

- He/She will also be responsible for the execution of strategic external business analysis in order to produce actionable insights for senior management of the company.

- Drive the strategic thinking process for organisational growth.

- Conduct research in economic, behavioural, technological and industry/competitors trends.

- Analyse, interpret to identify likely impacts on the organisation.

- Support in taking executive decisions and driving strategic planning process.

- Identify opportunities and drive changes to improve implementation and evaluation of strategic and business planning processes.

- Steer better performance tracking and reporting of initiatives.

- Facilitate the strategic review and planning processes with EXCO members and delivery teams.

- Supplement the development of aligned and integrated business plans.

- Deliver on the strategic projects through B-O-OT ( Build Own Operate Transfer) Approach.

- Provide short term and long term strategic views on various aspects of business.

- The role requires a very good understanding of financial services, insurance and banking environment to synthesize points of view and assess the impact of changes in landscape on Company's strategy.

- Support strategic planning processes, including interdependencies between key business, technology and financial planning processes.

- Highlight and incorporate external & market perspectives and insights from competitive and market intelligence in business decision making.

- Facilitate structured reviews of the enterprise portfolio of strategic initiatives & implications (e. , budget considerations, resource allocation, etc.

- Work with internal stakeholders to incubate and develop new channels and blue sky initiatives such as Digitization.

- Identify and chart out longer-term roadmap for the Company in line with Company's vision and shareholder priorities, for example, future listing plans.

- Support agenda and materials development for senior executive audiences & meetings e. , Board Meetings, ,Executive Offsite, etc.

- Typical Targets and Measures.

- Incorporation & alignment of company initiatives with agreed business strategy.

- Understanding of capability gap/advantage vis-a-vis competitors/ benchmark and actionable thereof.

- Timely delivery of results from strategic initiatives.

- Positive feedback from internal stakeholders responsible for growth of new channels and long-term initiatives.

- Identify new strategic initiatives based on customer insights, or provide inputs on how initiatives to be modified.

- Identify and engage relevant stakeholders (typically EXCO) in each of the initiatives to solicit their inputs and influence their thinking.

- Syndicate preliminary findings and recommendations with the stakeholders; develop action plans.

- Exceptional Collaboration and Influencing Skills; the ability towork closely with various business unit leaders and their teams, strategists and marketers, and peers across Marketing both directly and virtually in a highly matrixed environment to define, deliver and execute the brand strategy, including.

- Provide periodic updates to stakeholders on the progress of strategic initiatives.

- Communicating well-structured, data-driven, and clearly articulated points-of-view to influence and meet stakeholders where they are'.