AD- Strategy & PMO

AB InBev India; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,200,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

AB InBev India is seeking a Senior Strategy Lead to guide the Business Unit's planning, transformation and portfolio management. You will partner with the BU President and Executive Leadership to shape long-term growth, drive cross-functional initiatives, and ensure rigorous execution of top-priority business outcomes.

The role blends corporate strategy, internal consulting and CEO office leadership, requiring translating market dynamics into actionable strategies and building high-impact

Qualifications

• Exceptional analytical, commercial and problem-solving skills.
• Robust financial modelling skills.
• Experience in planning and leading strategic initiatives.
• Knowledgeable in change management methods.
• Experience in valuations, M&A, growth strategy will be a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the BU ISEA strategic planning, transformation and enterprise portfolio management.
• Coordinate annual planning cycles: 1-year, 3-year, 5-year, 10-year.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives with senior leadership.
• Establish frameworks and standards for program and project management.
• Perform data analysis to turn insights into actionable strategies.
• Build business cases and financial models to support initiatives.
• Prepare regular status reporting for senior leadership.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Commercial acumen

Problem-solving

Financial modelling

Strategic initiative leadership

Change management

Valuations/M&A knowledge

Job description

Dreaming big is in our DNA. It's who we are as a company. It's our culture. It's our heritage. And more than ever, it's our future. A future where we're always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life's moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger.

Being the best beer company starts with finding the best people. While we have big brands, we have bigger opportunities as well. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with colleagues, resources, and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together - when we combine your strengths with ours - is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

Primary Purpose of the role

Lead the Business Unit's strategic planning, transformation, and enterprise portfolio management agenda. Act as a key thought partner to the BU President and Executive Leadership Team, shaping long-term growth strategy, driving critical cross-functional initiatives, and ensuring rigorous execution of the organization's highest-priority business outcomes.

The role combines elements of corporate strategy, internal consulting, transformation management, and CEO office leadership. It requires the ability to translate complex market dynamics and business challenges into actionable strategies, build high-impact business cases, and orchestrate execution across multiple functions to accelerate profitable growth

Roles and Responsibilities

• Play a key role in building a sustainable growth strategy for BU ISEA
• Lead the different planning cycles viz.1 year, 3 year, 5 year and 10 year cycles for the country
• Lead and monitor long-term strategic business initiatives from development through successful execution under the guidance of senior leadership and departmental heads.
• Establish frameworks and standards for Program and Project Management
• Work effectively with diverse teams to come up with the best solutions
• Provide Project planning, Milestone management, Scope management, Resource forecasting; Financial Management; Change Management across the project portfolio
• Ensure the appropriate program benefits are identified, quantified and their realization planned
• Participate in the development of Projects that may consist of a variety of challenges that may range from innovation, new products, supply chain, and strategic whitespace development, etc.
• Maintain and update the project management framework and disciplines necessary to support a PMO
• Data analysis: turn unstructured data into meaningful insights and transformative solutions
• Structure ambiguous problems and take action to solve them
• Mining insights which would help the leadership to make decisions and transform the BU
• Adept at primary and secondary research on markets as well as consumer trends
• Benchmarking across ABI globally (internally) and externally across other CPGs/FMCGs on best practices
• Build business cases on all important areas of the business viz. right from launching a new product, brand, innovations, expansion projects, S&L projects, etc.
• Financial modelling to craft out scenarios and build out P&Ls based on different levers
• Manage and compile Program related financial and KPI information
• Track financial reporting whilst ensuring that the program and projects adhere to the corporate financial processes
• Prepare regular status reporting for the senior leadership
• Contributes to overall profitability by monitoring all areas of Project expenditure and reporting on performance against variations.

Skills and/or knowledge

• Exceptional analytical, commercial and problem-solving skills
• Strong skills in creating and maintaining project and program plans, including risks, actions, issues, dependencies
• Ability to deliver insights with impact
• Robust financial modelling skills
• Experience in planning and leading strategic initiatives
• Experience in valuations, M&As, growth strategy will be a plus
• Knowledgeable and experienced in efficient Change Management methods