Senior Analyst / Program Lead - Corporate Strategy

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

Job summary

Infosys is seeking a Senior Analyst / Program Lead in Corporate Strategy in Bangalore. The role involves planning enterprise-wide initiatives, identifying strategic issues, and coordinating with CXOs and stakeholders to drive go-to-market strategies and long-term business plans.

You will forecast metrics, design strategic options, develop business cases, and manage execution of transformation and efficiency projects with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• MBA or CA required.
• Minimum 2 years PQE.
• MBA/CA with strategic program management exposure.

Responsibilities

• Plan and drive enterprise-wide initiatives (Business Planning and Change Management).
• Identify strategic issues and provide insights and recommendations.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to execute strategic initiatives and PMO activities.
• Forecast and monitor strategic and operational variables; deliver performance reports.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Judgment

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical skills

Data management

Financial statements

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Problem solving

Education

MBA

CA

Job description

Location: Bangalore Role : Senior Analyst / Program Lead – Corporate Strategy

Job Responsibilities

• Planning - Driving key enterprise wide initiatives (including Business Planning and Change Management)
• Identify key strategic issues facing the organization and give insights and recommendations
• Conceptualize, design and execute key enterprise wide strategic initiatives by working with various stakeholders
• Forecast strategic and operational variables.
• Simulate and create best fit plans based on market profile.
• Monitoring metrics that are relevant to Strategic planning.
• Responsible for managing periodical reporting of Strategy performance
• Coordinate with internal functions for driving planning activities CXO Support
• Support and manage CXOs interfacing with internal and external stakeholders
• Work on go-to-market strategy , annual business -wise plans (both annual and long-term)
• Identify growth opportunities, both short term and long term Strategic Initiative PMO
• Lead and drive key strategic initiatives (PMO for Strategic Initiatives, which would be encompassing reporting/ tracking activities to closure of a CXO owned initiative – include management reviews and discussion forums)
• Deliver and design key strategic initiatives, transformation agenda & efficiency improvement projects with impact across the organization.
• Strategic Insights - Develop business cases and strategic options based on industry insights, internal capabilities, financial models, ROI analysis to support planning initiatives
• In terms of business development, facilitate competition bench-marking, deal benchmarking and prepare intelligent analysis on periodic basis
• As part of CXO refresh, prepare environment scans, competitor insights and reports on customers and present the same periodically .
• Conduct internal consulting project to support units
• Support CXO with briefing kits for any kind of engagements and other external stakeholders such as industry bodies, corporations and educational institutions/ universities.
• Strategy Communication - Managing all strategic communication from the CSO's office and interaction with the other stakeholders
• Keeping a track of important industry updates and review changes / developments closely to assess impact
• Anchor business planning and operational reviews periodically: Support in preparing the review decks and sharing insights with the CXO prior to the reviews

Capabilities/ Skill sets

Excellent interpersonal skills Exercise considerable judgment in building relationships across all levels in the organization. Work collaboratively across functions to create buy-in to achieve deliverables Ability to work under limited supervision Work well under high pressure and produce timely deliverables in a fast-paced environment with the good quality and end user satisfaction. Work well with ambiguity. Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, both quantitative and qualitative. Should have good understanding of data management and collection, modelling and interpretation across complex data sets Good understanding of Financial statements Strong written and oral communication skills (including presentation skills), with attention to detail Should have excellent presentation skills and ability to convert strategic ideas into actionable and communicate them Strategic, analytical, statistical and optimization background and lateral thinker

Qualification

Full-time MBA (preferably from tiered B-school) / CA.

Experience

Minimum 2 years PQE