Strategy Manager

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About Godrej Industries Limited and Associate Companies (GILAC)GILAC is a holding company of the Godrej Group. We have significant interests in consumer goods, real estate, agriculture, chemicals, and financial services through our subsidiary and associate companies, across 18 countries. https://www.godrejindustries.com

About Godrej Properties Limited (GPL)Godrej Properties brings the Godrej Group philosophy of innovation, sustainability, and excellence to the real estate industry. Each Godrej Properties development combines the over 125-year legacy of excellence and trust with a commitment to cutting-edge design, technology, and sustainability. www.godrejproperties.com

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Key Activities

• Work with Functional Heads and Region Heads on key strategic assignments
• Conduct detailed design of initiatives, bringing in best practices and insights from internal and external sources
• Identify and address gaps in business process and ensure their effective implementation across the organization
• Drive implementation with cross-functional teams and regional teams
• Own the execution and delivery of all chosen transformational projects and ensure regular problem solving, tracking and de-bottlenecking
• Project management of large scale initiatives escalation of issues and roadblocks along with mitigating actions to relevant owners, sponsors and senior leadership team members
• Working with external consultants like Bain, McKinsey to drive strategic priorities
• Working on short-term strategic assignments for MDs office

Business Planning

• Working closely with the Business Planning team & Zonal Strategy teams during the annual operating plan preparation
• Leading initiatives to improve the business planning processes e.g. overhead budgeting process

Executive communication

• Preparing executive presentations for Chairman, MD and Board of Directors

Working Relationships (Internal and External)

Skills Required:

• Ability to think logically and breakdown complex business problems into manageable tasks.
• Self-starter with an ability to work through ambiguity.
• PMO skills - Project Planning & Scheduling, creating project charters, Stakeholder management, Reporting & documentation etc.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and business acumen
• Ability to present issues clearly and provide answers
• Strong leadership, influencing and people management skills to be able to drive cross functional assignments and decisions
• Strong communication skills (both written and oral) to engage with senior stakeholders and to make CEOlevel presentations
• Proficiency in MS- excel modelling, sound understanding of financial modelling
• High on initiative, ownership, pro-active approach and self-driven
• A knack for fun through innovation and out-of-box thinking and the energy to go the extra mile

Qualification & Experience:

• Undergrad from leading institutions
• MBA from Tier 1 (IIMs/ISB/MDI/XLRI/FMS) or international business schools
• Experience: Minimum 2 years experience in a Top Management consulting firm such as McKinsey, Bain, BCG and A.T. Kearney
• Experience of working on large business transformation projects with cross-functional teams
• Minimum 3 years of experience working with C-Suite.