CXO Office - Strategy & Operations

Curefoods; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Curefoods in Bengaluru seeks a Strategy & Operations Analyst in the CXO Office to partner with the CXO team on high-priority initiatives spanning strategy, analytics, growth, and execution. You will build analyses, develop data-backed recommendations, and drive programs from problem framing to measurable outcomes, coordinating with Marketing, Product, Operations and Finance.

This role demands ownership, strong communication with senior stakeholders, and the ability to move seamlessly between

Qualifications

• 4-7 years of experience in strategy, analytics, consulting, business operations, growth, category management or similar roles.
• Experience in food-tech, QSR, D2C, consumer businesses, startups or multi-brand businesses would be an advantage.
• Strong commercial understanding with the ability to interpret P&L, revenue, growth and unit economics.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to structure ambiguous problems and develop clear, actionable recommendations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present to senior stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• High ownership, curiosity and bias for action.
• Ability to move seamlessly between strategy and hands-on execution.

Responsibilities

• Analyse business performance across brands, markets, channels and functions to identify opportunities, risks and performance gaps.
• Develop structured analyses and recommendations to support CXO-level decision-making.
• Build business cases for strategic initiatives, investments, expansion opportunities and new business ideas.
• Track key business metrics and identify trends, exceptions and areas requiring intervention.
• Conduct market, competitor and customer analysis to support strategic decisions.
• Identify opportunities to drive revenue, orders, customer acquisition, retention, frequency and profitability.
• Analyse key growth metrics such as AOV, CAC, repeat rate, contribution margin, conversion and channel performance.
• Work with Marketing, Product, Operations and Business teams to identify and address growth bottlenecks.
• Develop hypotheses and evaluate growth initiatives through structured experiments and data.
• Assess the commercial impact of initiatives and recommend what should be scaled, modified or stopped.
• Work directly with the CXO team on high-priority strategic projects that cut across functions.
• Support initiatives such as new market/city expansion, brand launches, business transformation, cost optimisation and process redesign.
• Conduct rapid analysis on emerging business questions and convert findings into actionable recommendations.
• Take ownership of projects that may not naturally sit within a single function.
• Identify operational bottlenecks impacting business performance and customer experience.
• Work with functional teams to simplify processes, improve productivity and eliminate inefficiencies.
• Analyse operational performance and develop improvement plans with measurable outcomes.
• Support implementation of new processes, systems and operating mechanisms.
• Build scalable processes and playbooks that can be replicated across brands and locations.
• Work closely with Operations, Finance, Marketing, Product, HR and other functions to execute strategic priorities.
• Drive alignment between stakeholders, timelines and expected outcomes.
• Track critical initiatives and proactively highlight risks, dependencies and deviations.
• Ensure strategic recommendations translate into actual business outcomes.
• Influence stakeholders without direct authority and drive initiatives to closure.

Skills

Strategy

Analytics

Growth

P&L literacy

Communication

Stakeholder mgmt

Ownership

Execution

Job description

Strategy & Operations Analyst - CXO Office

About the Role

We are looking for a Strategy & Operations Analyst - CXO Office to work closely with the CXO team on high-priority business initiatives across the organisation. This is a high-ownership role at the intersection of strategy, business analytics, growth and execution. The role will involve solving complex business problems, identifying opportunities, developing data-backed recommendations and driving initiatives from problem definition to measurable business outcomes.

1. Business Strategy & Performance

• Analyse business performance across brands, markets, channels and functions to identify opportunities, risks and performance gaps.
• Develop structured analyses and recommendations to support CXO-level decision-making.
• Build business cases for strategic initiatives, investments, expansion opportunities and new business ideas.
• Track key business metrics and identify trends, exceptions and areas requiring intervention.
• Conduct market, competitor and customer analysis to support strategic decisions.

2. Growth & Commercial Initiatives

• Identify opportunities to drive revenue, orders, customer acquisition, retention, frequency and profitability.
• Analyse key growth metrics such as AOV, CAC, repeat rate, contribution margin, conversion and channel performance.
• Work with Marketing, Product, Operations and Business teams to identify and address growth bottlenecks.
• Develop hypotheses and evaluate growth initiatives through structured experiments and data.
• Assess the commercial impact of initiatives and recommend what should be scaled, modified or stopped.

3. Strategic & Special Projects

• Work directly with the CXO team on high-priority strategic projects that cut across functions.
• Support initiatives such as new market/city expansion, brand launches, business transformation, cost optimisation and process redesign.
• Conduct rapid analysis on emerging business questions and convert findings into actionable recommendations.
• Take ownership of projects that may not naturally sit within a single function.

4. Operations & Process Improvement

• Identify operational bottlenecks impacting business performance and customer experience.
• Work with functional teams to simplify processes, improve productivity and eliminate inefficiencies.
• Analyse operational performance and develop improvement plans with measurable outcomes.
• Support implementation of new processes, systems and operating mechanisms.
• Build scalable processes and playbooks that can be replicated across brands and locations.

5. Cross-functional Execution

• Work closely with Operations, Finance, Marketing, Product, HR and other functions to execute strategic priorities.
• Drive alignment between stakeholders, timelines and expected outcomes.
• Track critical initiatives and proactively highlight risks, dependencies and deviations.
• Ensure strategic recommendations translate into actual business outcomes.
• Influence stakeholders without direct authority and drive initiatives to closure.

6. CXO Office

• Prepare business reviews, leadership presentations, decision notes and strategic analyses.
• Support the CXO team in evaluating business performance and prioritising critical interventions.
• Bring together data and inputs from multiple functions to create a clear view of business issues.
• Support leadership discussions with fact-based insights, scenarios and recommendations.
• Handle sensitive and high-priority business projects with a high degree of ownership and discretion.

What We Are Looking For

• 4-7 years of experience in strategy, business analytics, consulting, business operations, growth, category management or similar roles.
• Experience in food-tech, QSR, D2C, consumer businesses, startups or multi-brand businesses would be an advantage.
• Strong commercial understanding with the ability to interpret P&L, revenue, growth and unit economics.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to structure ambiguous problems and develop clear, actionable recommendations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present to senior stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• High ownership, curiosity and bias for action.
• Ability to move seamlessly between strategy and hands-on execution.