General Manager - Program Strategy & Planning - IIM/ISB

GM-Program Strategy and Planning -

Role & Responsibility:

- Formulation of strategy, commercial model and project plan of the intelligence marketing business, including coalition loyalty, consumer engagement, campaigns and analytics

- Delivering strategic thinking and presentations on business, market, opportunities and project on a regular basis

- Leading project planning, monitoring and reviews of all workstreams with management

- Managing reporting on business plans, project implementation tracking, issues, risks, new initiatives to senior executive management stakeholders

- Involved in partner alliances identification, evaluation, negotiation, and implementation

- Involved in business development finance for business case preparation and validation with prospective merchant clients, as well as delivering ROI

- Designing and owning the financial business plan including forecasts, budgets, variances

- Responsible for market research, competitive analysis and identifying the latest trends in the consumer engagement, insights, loyalty and marketing space

- Identifying and driving opportunities for strategic partnerships in the industry across product, technology, marketing, commercial, etc.

- Identifying and driving new opportunities for business growth

- Monitoring of KPIs and identifying issues and recommending solutions / opportunities

REPORTING TO Head, Strategy

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE 6 - 10 YEARS

Candidate Qualification and skill sets:

- MBA from a premier Tier 1 institute such as IIM/ ISB/ US Ivy Leagues /others

- 6- 10 years of experience in management consulting and/or strategy in a reputed company

- Should have exposure to consumer and technology businesses and functions

- Should have experience in any of the following - digital technology, consumer insights & marketing, program management, strategy design, planning

- Strategic thinker and doer with ability to multi-task, flexibility on changing work priorities

- Financial modelling, commercial and business acumen

- Ability to derive business actionable insights from large datasets

- Experience in managing cross-functional relationships (internal and external)

- Collaborative, positive attitude

- High degree of initiative, personal responsibility and ownership

- Excellent time management skills and sensitivity to deadlines

- Excellent oral and written English communication skills

- Excellent PowerPoint, Excel, Project skills