Associate Manager- Project Management -
GMR Group
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Job summary
GMR Group is seeking a Strategy & Business Development professional to drive expansion across GMR Sports. You will identify opportunities, coordinate governance, and manage stakeholder interactions with multiple internal teams and external partners.
Key duties include business case development, market research, and financial modelling to support senior leadership decisions and growth initiatives within the sports portfolio.
Qualifications
- Post Graduate with a specialization in management/ business from a reputed institute.
- Sports domain specialization is preferred.
- Strong understanding of the Indian sports ecosystem, commercial models, and growth drivers.
- Proficiency in financial modelling, research, and presentation development.
Responsibilities
- Identify new business opportunities across the sports ecosystem and partnerships.
- Provide structured PMO support for strategic and business development initiatives.
- Coordinate internal and external stakeholders for timely execution.
- Develop business cases with market research and financial models for senior management.
- Engage with sports federations, leagues, and commercial partners.
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Job description
To support Strategy & Business Development lead in driving GMR Sports’ strategic and business expansion agenda by identifying new opportunities, enabling seamless project governance, coordinating effectively with key internal and external stakeholders, and contributing to the overall growth of GMR Sports portfolio.
To support Strategy & Business Development lead in driving GMR Sports’ strategic and business expansion agenda by identifying new opportunities, enabling seamless project governance, coordinating effectively with key internal and external stakeholders, and contributing to the overall growth of GMR Sports portfolio.
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- Conduct proactive outward-facing interactions across the sports ecosystem to identify potential partnerships, growth avenues, and emerging opportunity areas for GMR Sports.
- Provide structured PMO support including planning, tracking, reporting, and risk identification to ensure timely and successful execution of strategic and business development initiatives.
- Align internal and external stakeholders to ensure project timelines are managed
- Act as a coordination bridge between teams, ensuring smooth communication flow and alignment on key initiatives with GMR ecosystem stakeholders
- Manage external stakeholders including vendors, clients, partners, consultants, etc.
Assist in planning, scoping, and executing high-impact strategic programs and long-term initiatives that increase organizational efficiencies and implementation of relevant digital transformation initiatives in line with GMR Sports’ growth vision
Develop business cases for opportunity evaluation by conducting market research, creating financial models, and preparing structured documents and presentations for senior management.
- Sports federations, leagues, and franchise partners for gathering market intelligence and exploring business opportunities
- Consultants, research agencies, industry bodies for insights and collaborative evaluations
- Commercial partners, vendors, and ecosystem stakeholders supporting BD & strategy initiatives
- GMR Sports leadership and various HODs
- Operations, Finance, Commercial, HR, Legal, and Marketing departments
- Larger GMR Group ecosystem stakeholders for approvals, inputs and decision making
- New Business verticals – Growth of GMR sports portfolio across Franchises (Teams), League(s), Sports Infrastructure, Grassroots and adjacent verticals
- Projects – PMO for key initiatives across each FY (league season, franchise wise charters, infrastructure opportunities and any new business)
- Stakeholder network - Regular interaction with 12 - 15 internal teams and various external entities in the sports ecosystem
- Post Graduate with a specialization in management/ business from a reputed institute. Sports domain specialization is preferred.
- Strong understanding of the Indian sports ecosystem, commercial models, and growth drivers
- Proficiency in financial modelling, research, and presentation development
- Advanced MS Office (Power Point, Excel & Word) skills
- Experience: 3+ years
- Experience in sports consulting (Big4/ Boutique consulting firms preferred) with exposure to strategy, business development and market assessments.
- Prior experience working with sports federations, leagues, commercial partners, or sports IP rights holders will be an advantage
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