Head of Strategy

Purpose of the Role:

The Corporate Strategy role is responsible for supporting enterprise-level strategic planning, growth initiatives, and long-term value creation. The role will be responsible for owning not just the formulation of Tata Technologies' multi-year strategic agenda but its rigorous execution — ensuring that bold ambitions translate into measurable outcomes across engineering services, digital manufacturing, and EdTech verticals.

The incumbent will work closely with executive leadership and business heads to drive strategy formulation, market intelligence, inorganic growth assessments, and execution governance across business units. This is a senior role reporting to a Senior Executive Leader.

Exposure to engineering services, automotive, aerospace, industrial is mandatory.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy Formulation & Planning

• Support annual and long-range strategic planning cycles, including 3-5 years business plans
• Translate corporate vision into actionable strategic initiatives across business units
• Drive enterprise-wide priorities such as growth platforms, digital transformation, and margin improvement
• Develop strategic frameworks, business cases, and decision-support material for leadership

Market, Industry & Competitive Intelligence

• Conduct deep analysis of industry trends, market dynamics, customer segments, and competitors
• Track emerging technologies, engineering services trends, and global manufacturing ecosystems
• Provide insights on new markets, service offerings, and business model innovation

Growth & Inorganic Strategy

• Support M&A, partnerships, and alliance evaluations, including target screening and synergy assessments

Performance & Execution Governance

• Track execution of key strategic initiatives and enterprise programs
• Establish KPIs, dashboards, and review mechanisms for strategy deployment
• Partner with business leaders to resolve execution challenges and course-correct when required

Stakeholder Management

• Interface with CXOs, business unit heads, finance, HR, and technology teams
• Prepare high-quality presentations for Board, Executive Committee, and Leadership Reviews
• Act as a thought partner to leadership on strategic priorities

Education & Experience

• MBA from a premier institute (Strategy, Finance, or Operations preferred)
• 10+ years of experience in:
• Corporate Strategy
• Strategy Consulting
• Business Planning roles in large engineering, IT, organizations
• Exposure to engineering services, automotive, aerospace or ER&D domains is preferred

Key Skills & Competencies

• Strong strategic thinking and structured problem-solving skills
• Advanced financial modeling and business case development
• Excellent storytelling and executive communication capabilities
• Ability to work in ambiguous, fast-changing environments
• Strong stakeholder influence without direct authority