Business Strategist

The Strategy Manager is a new role the India team has created to help them achieve their rapid growth ambitions for the next years. You will work in close collaboration with IMC s Indian leadership team and you will report to the Managing Director of the India office, Jocelyn Dentand. The working environment is collaborative and non-hierarchical, and you will manage various stakeholders both internally and externally.

Your Core Responsibilities:

• Contribute to and shape definition of strategic priorities to help the India team achieve its growth ambitions over the next years.
  • Assess attractiveness of a new opportunities based on opportunity size, competition, and internal capabilities.
  • For example: make a business case for trading a new class of products, with cost and benefits analysis and an organizational, legal and compliance set-up.
• Drive real business impact by supporting the execution of the defined strategic priorities
  • Help translate the strategy into planning.
  • Support execution of specific strategic priorities.
  • For example: build annual plans that tie to the long-term strategy with trading, tech and support teams, or develop a joint roadmap for the various teams that trade cryptocurrencies, including taking care of the synergies between the teams.
• Support on specific (ad hoc) strategic problems and opportunities
  • Detect and solve ad hoc problems in a solution-oriented way by using analytical skills.
  • Help detect (operational) bottlenecks within the organization and apply your problem-solving skills to work towards solutions.
  • Run strategy off-sites for teams.
  • For example: hold workshop to improve efficiency of central trading processes.
• Gather external insights, asses their implications for IMC strategy and help decide on a response
  • Ongoing external engagement: play a pivotal role in corporate development projects relevant to the business (e.g. identify treats, opportunities and actions for IMC, leading acquisitions, establishing partnerships, etc.).
  • Develop a perspective on industry trends/developments as well as on the competitive landscape in the secretive field of trading.
  • For example: conduct global competitive analyses into the Indian and global equity markets, make a mapping of various players, revenues, FTEs, trading styles and strategies.

Your Skills and Experience:

• Strategy consultancy experience at a top-tier consulting firm
• Outstanding problem solving and people skills
• Master s degree in Physics, Mathematics or Econometrics
• Ability to deal with organizational complexity and ambiguity
• Capable of dealing with a large scope of and senior stakeholders
• Likes to work in an innovative technology driven fast-paced environment, surrounded by highly educated, ambitious and collaborative colleagues