Manager Corporate Strategy

Job DescriptionDesignation: Manager - Corporate Strategy \ NLocation: Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi, Chennai \ NTeam Direct Reportees: Individual Contributor Role \ NAbout the Function: \ NThe role of a Manager, Corporate Strategy is part of the Business Strategy team at Tata Communications Ltd. The Business Strategy function at Tata Communications Ltd. provides analytical support and market insights for long term strategy related decisions at the organization. The team supports the CEO's office and the senior leadership on key strategic initiatives. The team works on specific strategy projects initiated either at the company level or else function level. One of the key functions of the team us to institutionalize and facilitate the long-term Strategic Planning Process and to plan the Strategic Planning Calendar. This entails working closely with the leadership of each of the functions to provide directional inputs with a view to align the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) with the Strategic Plan imperatives. A large part of the responsibility is to keep a tab on the market context, including laying out the landscape around customers, regulatory and macro-economic environment, competition and technology. Business scenario development, evaluation of strategic investments, analysis around new region/products/service entry strategy, value proposition analysis, competition analysis and go to market strategy are the other key imperatives. The team also works on initiatives to incubate and nurture innovative products and services. \ NYou will be accountable for (Key Responsibilities): \ N \n Provide advisory support to senior management, business leaders and functions\ N Critically analyse business scenarios and create viewpoints to facilitate business decisions\ N Focus on implementationand control as well as strategy development\ N Ensure smooth executionof qualified corporate strategy projects, including scoping discussions and assigning resources, while juggling between both operational/tactical and strategic activities\ N Actively contribute to defining the direction of new products, processes, standards or operational plans based upon business strategy, with a significant mid-term impact on business unit overall results\ N Identify problems and significantly improve, change or adapt existing method and techniques\ N Engage in regional/segment projects to lead teams under overall supervision\ N Form and lead ad-hoc cross-functional teams to drive the projects to closure\ N\nYou Are (Behaviours to display aligned to DRIVE): \ N \n Dealing with ambiguity - One of the key requirements of the role is to be able to navigate through ambiguity and assume a leadership position, self-starting in\ N Structured problem solving - Given the dynamic environment we operate in, you would be expected to work through seemingly unstructured situations, identify the key business priorities and take the initiative to apply your creative problem skills\ N Functional knowledge - You would be expected to apply working-level knowledge across all functions, namely, finance, marketing, product, sales, legal and other support functions\ N Communication skills - Communicating problems and ideas in a structured and succinct manner, both in spoken and written English, for the purpose of inter-personal communication, presentations and business writing is a must have\ N Team player - We strongly believe that individual success lies in the success of the team. To that end, we work as a non-hierarchical team and often in groups, supporting one another within the function and cross-functionally. We are keen to add another team player to the team\ N Inter-personal skills Your job would entail building professional relationships, putting together ad-hoc teams and often resolving conflicts\ N\nYou have (Qualification and exp): \ N \n Business management graduate in General Management, Finance or Marketing, preferably from a tier-1 business school\ N Given the nature of therole, a candidate with 1+ years of either corporate strategy or else strategy consultancy experience would be the right fit\ N Preferred candidates from top-tier business schools and/or prior experience in consulting or corporate strategy role for a minimum of 1-5 years.\ N .