Senior Strategy Manager

Role & responsibilities

• Develop and execute corporate and business strategies aligned with the organization's long-term objectives and growth priorities.
• Conduct market research, industry analysis, competitor benchmarking, and market sizing to identify growth opportunities and emerging risks.
• Translate strategic objectives into actionable business plans, initiatives, and measurable KPIs.
• Lead strategic projects involving growth, market expansion, business transformation, operational improvement, pricing, and new business opportunities.
• Build detailed business cases, financial models, scenario analyses, forecasts, and investment recommendations for strategic initiatives.
• Partner with senior leadership to evaluate new markets, products, partnerships, investments, and strategic opportunities.
• Analyze business performance, identify gaps and trends, and recommend actions to improve revenue, profitability, efficiency, and market position.
• Develop and monitor KPIs, OKRs, dashboards, and performance metrics to track strategic initiatives.
• Lead cross-functional teams across Finance, Product, Technology, Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Business Development.
• Manage strategic initiatives from problem definition and analysis through execution and impact measurement.
• Support M&A, partnerships, due diligence, market-entry, and expansion initiatives where applicable.
• Identify operational inefficiencies and drive cost optimization, process improvement, and business transformation programs.
• Prepare high-quality management presentations, strategy papers, board materials, and executive recommendations.
• Present strategic insights and recommendations to senior management and executive leadership.
• Track industry, economic, technology, and regulatory trends and assess their potential impact on the organization.
• Mentor junior strategy professionals and contribute to building a strong strategy, analytics, and problem-solving culture.

Preferred candidate profile

• 5 to 10 years of experience in corporate strategy, business strategy, management consulting, investment banking, business development, strategic planning, or a related function.
• Proven experience leading strategic initiatives and cross-functional business projects with measurable outcomes.
• Strong understanding of market research, competitive intelligence, market sizing, business modelling, financial analysis, and strategic planning.
• Demonstrated ability to convert complex data and business problems into clear strategic insights and actionable recommendations.
• Strong proficiency in financial modelling, Excel, PowerPoint, business analytics, and data visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Working knowledge of SQL, analytics platforms, or statistical analysis is an advantage.
• Experience in growth strategy, market expansion, pricing, monetization, GTM strategy, partnerships, M&A, or business transformation is desirable.
• Strong commercial understanding of revenue, profitability, unit economics, costs, margins, and business performance.
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leadership.
• Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, structured thinking, analytical, and decision-making abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple strategic projects, competing priorities, and tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with experience working with Finance, Product, Technology, Sales, Marketing, and Operations teams.
• Experience in management consulting, Big 4, investment banking, corporate strategy, technology, fintech, SaaS, e-commerce, or high-growth companies is an advantage.
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related discipline.
• MBA/PGDM from a reputed institution, preferably with a specialization in Strategy, Finance, Marketing, Business Analytics, or Operations, is strongly preferred.
• Certifications in financial modelling, business analytics, project management, or strategy are an advantage but not mandatory.