Head of Strategy

Bosch Global Software Technologies Private Limited is a 100% owned subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH, one of the world's leading global supplier of technology and services, offering end-to-end Engineering, IT and Business Solutions. With over 25,000+ associates, it’s the largest software development center of Bosch, outside Germany, indicating that it is the Technology Powerhouse of Bosch in India with a global footprint and presence in the US, Europe and the Asia Pacific region.       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.Essential Experience & Qualifications - 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.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. Any Engineering, Post Graduate