Head of Strategy

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.

Qualifications

Essential experience & qualifications:

• Any Engineering, Post-Graduate
• 12-15yrs of experience in driving corporate strategy for a revenue-generating business
• 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.

Additional Information

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.