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 IMCs Indian leadership team and you will report to the Managing Director of the India office Jocelyn Dentand. The working environment is collaborative and nonhierarchical 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 setup.
- Drive real business impact by supporting the of the defined strategic priorities
- Help translate the strategy into planning.
- Support of specific strategic priorities.
- For example: build annual plans that tie to the longterm 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 solutionoriented way by using analytical skills.
- Help detect (operational) bottlenecks within the organization and apply your problemsolving skills to work towards solutions.
- Run strategy offsites 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 threats 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:
- Experience at a toptier consulting firm in strategy preferably at the manager level or higher
- Outstanding problem solving and people skills
- Masters 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 fastpaced environment surrounded by highly educated ambitious and collaborative colleagues
About Us
IMC is a leading global trading firm powered by a cuttingedge research environment and a worldclass technology backbone. Since 1989 weve been a stabilizing force in financial markets providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US Europe and Asia Pacific our talented quant researchers engineers traders and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative highperformance culture and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.