Senior Manager - Strategy ISEAA

Own Retail; Chennai District; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Own Retail in India seeks a highly analytical Strategy professional to support execution of the ISEAA region's priorities. You will work with the Strategy Office Lead and senior stakeholders to shape initiatives, monitor market trends, and translate complex regional inputs into clear strategic recommendations in a fast-moving business environment.

Responsibilities include building business cases, market sizing, forecasting, dashboards, and tracking PMO governance across SEA and AuP, coordinating

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering is mandatory
• MBA / PGDM is preferred
• 4-5 years in strategy, consulting, or corporate planning
• Exposure to multi-market / regional business environments preferred
• Strong strategic thinking and structured problem solving

Responsibilities

• Build business cases and investment evaluations for strategic initiatives
• Conduct market sizing and profitability analysis
• Develop forecasting models and scenario planning models
• Develop dashboards and analytical models for regional performance
• Generate actionable insights from business data for strategic decision‑making
• Track strategic initiatives and milestones
• Maintain strategy dashboards and performance KPI tracking
• Support Balanced Scorecard reviews
• Highlight deviations and escalation topics
• Own the Strategy PMO governance for the ISEAA region across SEA & AuP markets
• Develop country and regional strategy inputs for SEA and AuP
• Monitor competitive landscape, regulations, and customer trends
• Identify growth opportunities and emerging risks
• Support annual strategy development process
• Coordinate with regional strategy teams in SEA and AuP
• Consolidate regional market intelligence
• Support best-practice sharing across markets
• Support Transformation and strategic objectives
• Conduct PMO activities where required
• Prepare leadership reports and review materials

Skills

Strategic thinking

Structured problem solving

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Project management

Business acumen

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

MBA / PGDM (preferred)

Job description

We are seeking a highly analytical and strategic professional to support the execution of the India, Southeast Asia, Australia, and Pacific (ISEAA) region's strategic priorities. Working closely with the Strategy Office Lead and senior stakeholders, you will help shape strategic initiatives, monitor market trends, identify growth opportunities, and support the successful execution of regional strategy. Success in this role requires strong analytical thinking, business acumen, stakeholder management, project management and the ability to translate complex information into clear strategic recommendations in a dynamic and evolving business environment.

Business Insights & Strategic Analytics

• Build business cases and investment evaluations for strategic initiatives
• Conduct market sizing and profitability analysis
• Develop forecasting model and scenario planning models
• Develop dashboards and analytical models for regional performance
• Generate actionable insights from business data for strategic decision-making

Strategy execution tracking

• Track strategic initiatives and milestones
• Maintain strategy dashboards and performance KPI tracking
• Support Balanced Scorecard reviews
• Highlight deviations and escalation topics

ISEAA Strategy PMO & SEA and AuP Strategy Development

• Own the Strategy PMO governance for the ISEAA region across SEA & AuP markets.
• Develop country and regional strategy inputs for SEA and AuP
• Monitor competitive landscape, regulations, and customer trends
• Identify growth opportunities and emerging risks
• Support annual strategy development process

Cross-regional Coordination

• Coordinate with regional strategy teams in SEA and AuP
• Consolidate regional market intelligence
• Support best-practice sharing across markets

Strategic Projects and Transformation Support

• Support Transformation and strategic objectives
• Conduct PMO activities where required
• Prepare leadership reports and review materials

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering (mandatory), MBA / PGDM (preferred)

Experience

• 4-5 years in strategy, consulting, or corporate planning
• Exposure to multi-market / regional business environments preferred

Specific knowledge

• Strong strategic thinking & structured problem solving
• Ability to synthesize complex regional inputs into clear insights
• Leverage regional teams to deliver successful projects
• Strong financial and analytical capability
• Excellent stakeholder management across geographies
• High ownership with execution discipline (not just strategy creation)
• Strong communication skills for leadership-level storytelling