Head-Strategy - Advanced Intermediates

Role Head-Strategy- Advanced Intermediates

Reporting to Chief Executive Officer- AI Business

Designation Deputy General Manager | General Manager

Work Location Corporate Office, Vadodara

Qualification | Experience

• B.E./ B.Tech. (Chemical) + MBA from a reputed institute with 14-18 years

Key Responsibilities

(indicative not exhaustive)

Business Strategy & Planning

• Lead the formulation of the medium- and long-term strategy for the Advanced Intermediates business and run the annual strategic planning and portfolio review cycle.
• Track industry, geopolitical, trade and regulatory developments (including global supply-chain realignment, trade remedies and sustainability regulation) and translate them into clear strategic choices for the business.
• Build market and raw material outlooks, including price forecasting for key inputs, to support planning, budgeting and commercial decisions.

Margin & Cost Transformation

• Identify and drive structural margin-improvement levers, including strategic sourcing, backward integration, by-product valorization, and process norms and yield, in partnership with operations and procurement.
• Improve realization through grade and product-mix upgrading, new applications, geographies and customers, and appropriate commercial and pricing mechanisms.
• Maximize utilization of existing assets through new products, markets and applications.

Portfolio & Business-Model Transformation

• Shape portfolio choices across existing products: where to grow, differentiate, rationalize or exit.
• Design and implement new business and operating models, including the transition of select businesses from product-selling to service-led and contract-manufacturing models.

Growth Projects & Pipeline Governance

• Build and manage a pipeline of large growth opportunities in adjacent and specialty value chains, taking each from idea through robust business case to investment approval.
• Establish and run stage-gate governance for new products and projects in collaboration with R&D, technology, projects, operations and marketing.
• Ensure the cumulative value of the pipeline is aligned with the business's growth ambition; highlight gaps early and recommend corrective action.
• Assess emerging technologies and capabilities that can create long-term competitive advantage.

M&A & Strategic Partnerships

• Identify, evaluate and lead inorganic growth opportunities with an asset-light, high-return orientation, covering screening, valuation, due diligence coordination and integration planning.
• Originate and structure strategic partnerships with global industry peers, including capacity, technology, market-access and supply collaborations.

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Lead, develop and grow the strategy team; build strong capability in business analytics, financial modelling and competitive intelligence.
• Present insights and recommendations to the CEO, leadership team and Board, and drive alignment across business and functional heads.
• Partner with marketing and business development on market-entry, positioning and competitive-response strategies.

Technical Competencies

Strategy formulation, financial modelling and valuation, business case development, M&A and deal structuring, market entry and establishment, technology and capability assessment, strategic partnerships and business development, business analytics and competitive intelligence.

Leadership Competencies

Drives Vision & Purpose, Strategic Mindset, Drives Results, Bias for Action, Ensures Accountability, Collaborates with Others, Customer Focus, Cultivates Innovation, Builds Effective Teams, Nimble Learning.