Manager - Business Planning & Strategy

The Manager of Business Planning will play a critical role in supporting the South Indian regional TV cluster by driving strategic planning, budgeting, and operational efficiency across Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, and Telugu channels. You will be responsible for analyzing business performance, optimizing resource allocation, and ensuring alignment with the network's overall strategic objectives. The team you will be a part of is responsible for strategizing towards creating and delivering innovative content that appeals to a wide range of viewers for the South Cluster. Through a combination of creative and culturally relevant fiction, nonfiction, and event programming execution, this team is critical in defining the channel's identity and increasing viewer engagement on the channel. They are committed to pushing boundaries in entertainment and offering viewers content that is charged that inspires, excites, and engages them across the channels. Your key responsibilities will include developing and executing the annual business plan for the regional TV cluster in alignment with corporate objectives, conducting market research and competitor analysis, collaborating with various teams to align channel strategies with business goals, overseeing budgets for all channels, monitoring financial performance, analyzing variances, providing regular financial reports and forecasts, tracking key performance indicators (KPIs), using data-driven insights to recommend improvements, benchmarking performance against competitors, and acting as a key point of contact for corporate leadership to provide insights and updates on the cluster's business performance. To be successful in this role, you should have robust presentation skills, strong analytical and critical thinking skills, strategic planning and multi-tasking abilities, a keen marketing sense, the ability to prioritize and self-start, excellent communication and presentation abilities, and the capability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and deliver under tight deadlines. The preferred education and experience for this role include a Masters in Business Administration with 4-5 years of work experience in a related field from tier 1 & 2 institutes. Join us at JioStar, a leading global media & entertainment company reimagining the way audiences consume entertainment and sports, where you will be at the nucleus of spellbinding content and innovative technology, reaching millions of viewers every week to ignite dreams and aspirations across geographies.,