Business Strategist

Overview

Support IMC India's growth ambitions as a Business Strategist working with India leadership, trading desk leads and a small Business Strategy team. Report to the Head of Business Strategy and Corporate Development for India and manage a wide range of stakeholders.

What you'll do

• Contribute to and shape the definition of strategic priorities to help the India team achieve its growth ambitions over the next years.
• Assess the attractiveness of new opportunities based on opportunity size, competition and internal capabilities.
• Make business cases for trading new classes of products, including cost and benefits analysis and an organizational, legal and compliance set-up.
• Drive real business impact by supporting execution of defined strategic priorities.
• Help translate strategy into planning.
• Build annual plans that tie to the long-term strategy with trading, tech and support teams.
• Develop joint roadmaps for teams that trade cryptocurrencies, including taking care of synergies between the teams.
• Support execution of specific strategic priorities.
• Detect and solve ad hoc problems in a solution-oriented way by using analytical skills.
• Help detect operational bottlenecks within the organization and apply problem-solving skills to work towards solutions.
• Run strategy off-sites for teams.
• Hold workshops to improve the efficiency of central trading processes.
• Gather external insights, assess their implications for IMC strategy and help decide on a response.
• Engage externally on corporate development projects relevant to the business, including identifying threats, opportunities and actions for IMC, leading acquisitions and establishing partnerships.
• Develop a perspective on industry trends and developments and the competitive landscape in the field of trading.
• Conduct global competitive analyses into the Indian and global equity markets, including mapping players, revenues, FTEs, trading styles and strategies.

What you'll need

• Experience at a top-tier consulting firm in strategy, preferably at the manager level or higher.
• Outstanding problem-solving and people skills.
• Bachelor's degree in STEM from a Tier 1 University is mandatory.
• Master's degree in Physics, Mathematics or Econometrics.
• Ability to deal with organizational complexity and ambiguity.
• Capability to deal with a large scope of senior stakeholders.
• Interest in working in an innovative, technology-driven, fast-paced environment, surrounded by highly educated, ambitious and collaborative colleagues.

Details

• Location: Mumbai, India.