Commercial Business Head

Anarika Ai; Mumbai; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Anarika Ai in Mumbai seeks a Business Head to drive strategy, budgets, and people outcomes across the company. You will own the India market, make key short- and long-term decisions, and ensure cross-functional alignment from Sales to Product to achieve growth and profitability.

You will lead a leadership team, own organizational culture, and grow the market while delivering exceptional customer experiences and cost-optimized operations. This is a high-responsibility, pipeline leadership role.

Qualifications

• 13+ years of experience in Sales & Business Development.
• MBA is a plus but not mandatory.
• Strong pricing/contract acumen.
• Ability to present compelling business cases.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement strategic plans to grow the business in Centre Mumbai/Bangalore.
• Drive approvals, budgets, and organizational structure aligned with growth targets.
• Communicate strategy and results to teams and ensure cross-functional execution.
• Recruit, coach, and develop leaders; manage performance and incentives.
• Shape Sales, Design, Operations, and Product initiatives to support profitability.
• Oversee customer experience and long-term market expansion efforts.
• Collaborate with engineering/product to influence technology concepts and cost optimization.
• Represent the company with customers, government, and partners to build reputation.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Negotiation

Sales leadership

Stakeholder management

Presentation skills

Education

MBA

Bachelor's degree in business

Job description

About the Role:

The Business Head is responsible for strategy, structure, budgets, people, financial outcomes and scorecard metrics.

This role reports to the Business Head of the company and is responsible to build the largest market for the company in India. The person in this role will be involved as a decision maker in all large decisions that are pertaining to short term and long-term

plans for the company, cost / budget decisions, organization structure & manpower plans, technology & product vision. While the key requirement of their role is to ensure that Centre is delivering as planned; the individual will also have clear responsibility, impact & influence in all areas that impact the success of the organization. They operate as custodian and owners of company culture and ability of each department to effectively work with one another. Individual at this level will be held 100% accountable for the success of the organization. This is a leadership pipeline position and as the organization grows this role will grow in expectations & complexity.

Your Key Responsibilities:

Develops strategic plan by understanding market opportunities; presenting assumptions; creating strategies, plans & objectives for the business unit in Centre (Mumbai/Bangalore).

• Ensures implementation of the strategy designed to grow the business. develops, reviews, updates and implements plans for Sales, Design, Operations, Financial Performance, People Performance and New Product Development.
• Communicates strategy and results to the city's employees and drives performance of the team to exceed planned objectives.
• Reviews analyses of activities, costs, operations and forecast data to determine department or division progress toward stated goals and objectives.
• Increases team's effectiveness by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, coaching, counselling, and disciplining managers; communicating values, strategies, and objectives; assigning accountabilities; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; developing incentives; developing a climate for offering information and opinions; providing development & growth opportunities.
• Grows the Business in Centre, makes important decisions about Sales Approach and Design development while also leveraging the strengths of Operations & Execution, high-impact work that makes up the core of company's reputation.
• Drives high quality customer experience in the region.
• Participates in formulating and administering overall organizational strategic planning & growth frameworks. Develop & implements long-range company goals and objectives to meet business and profitability growth objectives for the long term.
• Provides inputs to engineering and product to impact the company technology design concepts or new technology used for new or existing business to drive cost reduction, safety, better customer experience and market growth.
• Builds company image by collaborating with customers, government, community organizations, and employees, enforcing ethical business practices.

Experience & Education Required:

Experience: Minimum of 13 years of experience in Sales & Business Development

• Educational Background: Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, or related field, MBA (MBA is a plus & not mandatory)
• Sales background in the Interior Industry will be added advantage
• Demonstrated track record in achieving new business targets and continually demonstrating application in this key area.
• Business/commercial acumen on pricing/contract issues.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Skill and ability to adopt a consultative approach to effect problem solving and to explore options which ensure potential within a client account is maximized.
• Proven ability to create and deliver compelling presentations and collateral to support business development meetings
• Strong stakeholder management experience, with the ability to build and strengthen relationships at all levels.