Associate Manager - Strategic Initiatives

Indegene; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Indegene seeks an Associate Manager – Strategic Initiatives to drive enterprise AI strategy, market analyses, and inorganic growth opportunities. You will develop business cases, evaluate M&A targets, and support cross-functional strategic projects shaping the company’s future trajectory.

The role focuses on defining PRDs, leading product discovery, and delivering AI-powered workflows with LLMs, RAG, and automation across the organization. Strong strategic & financial skills are required.

Qualifications

• Structured research, strategic analysis, and financial assessments.
• Gather inputs for initiative planning, feasibility checks, and scenario modeling.
• Build robust business cases with revenue/cost projections and market sizing.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the product strategy and roadmap for AI/ML and Generative AI solutions.
• Gather customer and business requirements and convert them into clear PRDs and user stories.
• Lead product discovery, prioritization, and end-to-end product delivery.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Data Science, UX, QA, and business teams throughout the product lifecycle.
• Drive the development of AI-powered workflows leveraging LLMs, RAG, AI agents, and workflow automation.
• Partner with stakeholders to identify opportunities for AI adoption and process transformation.
• Track product performance using key metrics and customer feedback to drive continuous improvements.
• Stay updated on emerging AI technologies and industry trends to identify new product opportunities.
• Support client engagements, product demonstrations, and solution discussions when required.
• Ensure timely delivery of high-quality, scalable enterprise AI products.

Skills

Strategic analysis

Financial modeling

Business Case Creation

Market research

M&A analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

We are a technology-led healthcare solutions provider. We are driven by our purpose to enable healthcare organizations to be future-ready. We offer accelerated, global growth opportunities for talent that’s bold, industrious, and nimble. With Indegene, you gain a unique career experience that celebrates entrepreneurship and is guided by passion, innovation, collaboration, and empathy. To explore exciting opportunities at the convergence of healthcare and technology, check out www.careers.indegene.com Looking to jump-start your career? We understand how important the first few years of your career are, which create the foundation of your entire professional journey. At Indegene, we promise you a differentiated career experience. You will not only work at the exciting intersection of healthcare and technology but also will be mentored by some of the most brilliant minds in the industry. We are offering a global fast-track career where you can grow along with Indegene’s high-speed growth. We are purpose-driven. We enable healthcare organizations to be future ready and our customer obsession is our driving force. We ensure that our customers achieve what they truly want. We are bold in our actions, nimble in our decision-making, and industrious in the way we work.

Job Description

We are seeking a driven and analytical Associate Manager – Strategic Initiatives to support enterprise-wide strategic priorities and inorganic growth opportunities. This role will focus on developing business cases, conducting market analyses, evaluating M&A opportunities, and supporting cross-functional strategic projects that shape the company’s future trajectory. The ideal candidate brings a strong blend of strategic thinking, financial modeling, and business judgment, particularly in areas such as growth opportunity evaluation, value creation hypothesis development, and synergy assessment.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the product strategy and roadmap for AI/ML and Generative AI solutions.
• Gather customer and business requirements and convert them into clear Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) and user stories.
• Lead product discovery, prioritization, and end-to-end product delivery.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Data Science, UX, QA, and business teams throughout the product lifecycle.
• Drive the development of AI-powered workflows leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents, and workflow automation.
• Partner with stakeholders to identify opportunities for AI adoption and process transformation.
• Track product performance using key metrics and customer feedback to drive continuous improvements.
• Stay updated on emerging AI technologies and industry trends to identify new product opportunities.
• Support client engagements, product demonstrations, and solution discussions when required.
• Ensure timely delivery of high-quality, scalable enterprise AI products.

Desired Profile

• Support the development and execution of enterprise priorities by conducting structured research, strategic analysis, and financial assessments.
• Work closely with business and functional leads to gather inputs for initiative planning, feasibility checks, and scenario modeling.
• Business Case Creation: Collaborate with senior stakeholders to build robust business cases, including revenue and cost projections, market opportunity sizing, and strategic rationale for investments or acquisitions.
• Market Scanning & Target Identification: Conduct landscape assessments to identify potential inorganic growth targets and map competitive ecosystems.
• Deal Rationale & Strategic Fit Analysis: Support qualitative and quantitative assessment of potential targets' alignment with business strategy, including portfolio synergy, capability fit, and market access.
• Valuation Modeling: Assist in building discounted cash flow (DCF), comparable company, and precedent transaction valuation models to assess deal attractiveness.
• Synergy Assessment & Value Creation: Contribute to pre-deal synergy estimation (commercial, operational, and cost-based), and support post-deal value realization modeling.
• Integration Support: Track key integration metrics, identify early value levers, and help maintain synergy dashboards under guidance from the SI lead.
• Track initiative KPIs, monitor performance against business plans, and support initiative health reporting.
• Analyze variance drivers, risks, and lead indicators across strategic programs and M&A integrations.
• Support creation of standardized templates for strategic evaluations, synergy models, and post-integration reviews.
• Help codify learnings from completed deals or initiatives into playbooks or knowledge repositories.

Qualifications

Additional information

Indegene is proud to be an Equal Employment Employer and is committed to the culture of Inclusion and Diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, colour, age, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, physical ability, or any other characteristics. All employment decisions, from hiring to separation, will be based on business requirements, the candidate’s merit and qualification. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristics.