Kushals Retail - Business Associate - Strategy

Job Title : Business Associate - Strategy

Experience: 4-7 years

Overview:

- Strategic associates will identify business needs and solutions within the context of the overall
direction of a company.

- They develop and implement critical business solutions through information gathering, synthesis, review, and testing. They secure and allocate resources, manage implementation schedules, and facilitate meetings.

Responsibilities:

- Elicit, analyse, specify, and validate the business needs of stakeholders, be they customers or end users.

- Classifying the strategic choices for addressing a specific situation and supporting the execution of the business strategy

- Work closely with the management to design business plans, projections, project or team OKRs, MIS and Dashboard.

- External Analysis: Assess the existing opportunities and threats of the organisation's external environment, comprising industry and environmental forces

- Internal Analysis: Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the organisation in its internal environment including its resources and competencies

- Strategy Design: Design strategies that form and endure competitive advantage by matching the strengths and weaknesses with the opportunities and threats of the organisation.

- Strategy Execution: Apply the developed strategies and monitor execution by identifying resources, processes and KPIs

- Strategic Control: Measure achievements and make adjustments in areas where the strategies are not generating the anticipated results

Candidate Profile:

- 4-7 years of experience in a similar role

- MBA in Business Planning or Analysis from reputed college as must

- Proven record in business strategy-from planning to implementation

- Skilled in business planning, cost analysis, SWOT analysis and other strategic tools

- Knowledge of OKR, goal setting, BI tools and report automation

- Experience in retail or ecommerce a must

- Detail oriented, analytical and inquisitive

- Solid business acumen along with good problem solving skills

- Have excellent communication and business-facing skills, are organised and able to multitask effectively

- Logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail