Head- Strategy

Key Result Areas

ActivitiesImpact on the Business / Function

· 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.g., 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.g., 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 initiativesCustomers / Stakeholders

· 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 to-work 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'Leadership & Teamwork

· Provide thought leadership in addressing critical challenges facing the organization

· Work closely with individuals across various functions in the organization including Sales, Marketing, Finance, Operations, Legal, IT, and HR.Operational Effectiveness & Control

• Clearly define problem statements and build hypothesis on solutions; often the situation will be ambiguous, take leadership in providing clarity and defining the problem

· Approach projects holistically, owning and driving end-to-end delivery of solutions

• Lead execution of key enterprise initiatives by forming collaborative partnerships with colleagues across businesses and functional areas
• Provide feedback on required analyses to advance solution development and to support execution of strategic initiatives
• Define the internal/external market research and market intelligence agenda

· Provide thought leadership and subject matter expertise in relevant areas

· Manage enterprise governance and communication processes

• Storyline presentations to communicate synthesized findings/status to senior management and Board for their feedback and approval