Associate Director - Business Strategy and Operations

Designation - Associate Director (Business Strategy & Operations)

Department - CEO's office

Location - Bangalore

Brief company description

Practo, a technology based startup in the healthcare space is on a mission to make quality healthcare affordable and accessible to over a billion+ Indians. At Practo, we believe in empowering our users with the most accurate & curated information and quality care, enabling them to make better healthcare decisions.

Practo wants to make a journey to a healthier lifestyle easy for every Indian, and help people live healthier and longer lives.

What you are expected to do:

From day one, the candidate will impact productivity, streamline strategic initiatives, oversee program management, and communicate objectives between departments.

Key responsibilities involve (but are not limited to)

• Core responsibilities

• Act as a key strategic advisor to the CEO and senior management team
• Act as a project manager for high level, cross functional projects across businesses
• Serve as a subject matter expert, handling inquiries and developing action plans to address them
• Help define SOPs for multiple segments of the organization
• Help develop the strategic roadmap for Practo and consequent programs, including those that are underway and new initiatives
• Foresee and escalate issues that may come up, suggest alternate solutions to the CEO/ program team, drive decision making on the same

• Program management

• Help define key deliverables from all programs, metrics to be measured/ milestones and track progress in close coordination with program teams
• Help define ways to improve delivery of key metrics of the organization and of programs
• Ensure timely and effective completion of projects and initiatives of the CEO
• Create and maintain systems and processes to streamline operations

• Stakeholder engagement and communication

• Understand key stakeholders in the system and the engage with them on business decisions and strategy
• Act as the liaison between CEO and other stakeholders to ensure clear and consistent communication & decision making
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What are we looking for:

Basic qualifications:

• You should have overall 5+ yrs of experience both pre & post MBA and should have 3+ years of working experiencein tier 1 consulting firm
• MBA from top tier B-School in India& pre MBA 2 +yrs of experience in Consulting/ Strategy//Sales /Finance /Marketing
• Ability to contribute to discussions about technology and strategy of a product
• Experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver products customers love
• Demonstrated capability of delivering products in a complex and fast-paced environment using agile processes
• Experience in healthcare sector preferred (At a provider, Health-tech, pharma, diagnostics, etc. or in a start-up)

Desirable Traits:

• Extremely versatile, dedicated, and a high output efficiency
• Integrity / ethics / morals and values consistent with those of Practo
• Personal and professional credibility needed to build and maintain strong internal and external relationships
• Desire to be involved in the community an optimistic and engaging personality

What's in it for you:

• Opportunity to directly work with the top business leaders and build strategic roadmap and plans
• Ideate, build and scale cutting edge health-tech solution to solve for existing and future business problems in the healthcare space
• Access to cross BU and functional problem solving opportunities that will provide steep learning curve and growth
• Explore various roles and transition into a leadership positions across functions and businesses in 18-24 months