Lead Strategy

ROLE OVERVIEW:

The incumbent will work closely with senior leadership on high-impact strategic initiatives across businesses, with a focus on driving growth, transformation, and business performance. The incumbent will play a key role in driving strategic priorities, tracking execution of key initiatives, and supporting leadership on matters relating to business performance, portfolio strategy, operational transformation, and long-term value creation.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

• BE/B.Tech./B.Com. in any stream, from Top Colleges/Universities.
• MBA from top B-Schools or Qualified CA.
• Minimum 8 years of work experience in Strategy, M&A, Investments role.

KEY REQUIREMENTS:

• Relevant experience in Strategy, Chairman’s/Founder’s Office, Consulting, Investment Banking, Corporate Finance, Transformation roles.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to understand complex business models and strategic issues across sectors.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and structured thinking capabilities.
• Strong financial modelling and quantitative analysis skills are essential.
• Proven ability to independently manage workstreams and interact with senior stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, executive presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• High degree of ownership, maturity, confidentiality, and execution orientation.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-visibility, and collaborative environment.
• MBA from a premier institute / CA with strong academic credentials preferred.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Partner with senior leadership in shaping and driving business strategy across various business verticals (Wholesale, Retail).
• Lead strategic initiatives and special projects spanning growth strategy, transformation, operational improvement, business incubation, M&A, and organization-wide priorities.
• Structure broad and ambiguous business problems into actionable workstreams through hypothesis-driven analysis, research, and stakeholder engagement.
• Conduct detailed market research, competitive benchmarking, industry analysis, and emerging trend assessment to support strategic decision-making.
• Develop robust financial models, business cases, scenario analyses, and investment evaluations for strategic initiatives and transactions.
• Work closely with business CXOs and cross-functional teams to drive key projects and ensure alignment across stakeholders.
• Support leadership reviews through creation of high-quality presentations, dashboards, management updates, and executive communication material.
• Drive program management for strategic initiatives including planning, governance, milestone tracking, budgeting, issue resolution, and ROI measurement.
• Monitor business and operational performance metrics and identify risks, opportunities, and areas requiring management intervention.
• Identify key business risks and execution challenges and proactively drive mitigation and resolution plans.

Piramal is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or religion.