Head of Strategy

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Company Description Bosch Global Software Technologies Private Limited  is a 100% owned subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH, one of the world's leading global supplier of technology and services, offering end-to-end Engineering, IT and Business Solutions. With over 25,000+ associates, it’s the largest software development center of Bosch, outside Germany, indicating that it is the Technology Powerhouse of Bosch in India with a global footprint and presence in the US, Europe and the Asia Pacific region.

Job Description Role Summary Drive corporate strategy, ecosystem leverage, and enterprise-wide strategic initiatives that support SDS.AI’s long-term growth, competitiveness, and business transformation. The role provides the fact base, strategic choices, and execution discipline required to align leaders around a clear growth agenda and convert that agenda into measurable outcomes. Key Responsibilities Corporate Strategy & Growth Agenda

- Lead the formulation and periodic refresh of SDS.AI’s corporate strategy, translating ambition into clear strategic priorities, choices, and multi-year plans.

- Develop robust market, customer, competitive, and portfolio analyses to identify attractive growth spaces and strategic risks.

- Facilitate strategy discussions with executive leadership and create alignment on direction, investments, and resource allocation.

- Define strategic narratives and decision materials that make complex choices clear for senior stakeholders. Portfolio, Market & Competitive Intelligence

- Assess the attractiveness, differentiation, and growth potential of current and adjacent service, engineering, AI, and digital business models.

- Maintain a forward-looking view of market movements, customer demand, competitor actions, and technology-led disruption.

- Shape portfolio and growth planning, including options for new markets, offerings, capabilities, alliances, and inorganic opportunities where relevant.

- Translate insights into practical recommendations with explicit assumptions, benefits, risks, and implementation implications. Strategic Initiatives & Transformation

- Sponsor and orchestrate cross-functional strategic initiatives that advance priority business outcomes and organizational transformation.

- Establish initiative charters, milestones, governance, dependencies, and performance measures; surface risks and unblock execution.

- Work closely with business, finance, technology, delivery, sales, people, and partnership leaders to ensure strategic initiatives are executable.

- Track delivery of strategic commitments and communicate progress, decisions required, and realized impact to leadership. Ecosystem Leverage & Stakeholder Management

- Identify where partnerships and ecosystem relationships can accelerate market access, capability development, innovation, and growth.

- Partner with the ecosystem and technology leadership teams to incorporate external leverage into strategic plans and business cases.

- Build trusted relationships with executive stakeholders and influence decisions through rigorous analysis and clear communication.

- Strengthen strategic planning capabilities, operating rhythms, and fact-based decision making across SDS.AI. Essential Experience & Qualifications

- Significant experience developing and executing business, corporate, or growth strategy in technology services, engineering, AI, digital, consulting, or adjacent sectors.

- Strong understanding of technology services, engineering, and digital business models, including their market and value-creation dynamics.

- Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional strategic initiatives and organizational change.

- Experience managing strategic partnerships or incorporating ecosystem opportunities into growth plans.

- Strong analytical and financial reasoning skills, with the ability to turn insight into clear business choices.

- Excellent executive communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management capabilities. Ideal Candidate Profile

- Structured, curious strategic leader who can move comfortably between long-term vision and near-term execution.

- Commercially astute and able to make informed trade-offs amid incomplete information.

- Influential collaborator who creates alignment without relying solely on formal authority.

- Outcome-oriented, rigorous, and effective in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.

Qualifications Any Engineering, Post Graduate

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