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Job Title: Strategy & Business Management Lead

Location: Bengaluru, Manyata Tech Park

Business & Team: Office of CTO India. The role reports directly to the Engineering General Manager – Office of CTO India and works closely with India and global leadership teams to drive strategic priorities and business outcomes.

Impact & Contribution: As the Strategy & Business Management Lead, you will partner with India and global leadership to drive strategic priorities, operational excellence, brand equity, stakeholder alignment, and organisational effectiveness for the India entity. You will act as a trusted advisor and execution lead to accelerate business outcomes, strengthen governance, and enhance the entity’s internal and external brand.

Roles & Responsibilities:
Strategy Execution & Governance – Partner with the CTO India and Leadership Teams to drive strategy execution, operating rhythms, governance, and business performance, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and measurable outcomes.
Portfolio & Transformation Management – Lead portfolio planning, prioritisation, and transformation oversight, managing dependencies and risks across strategic initiatives.
Performance Management & Reporting – Develop and manage executive dashboards, scorecards, OKRs, KPIs, and board-level reporting, providing data-driven insights and recommendations to support decision-making.
Technology Business Management – Drive technology business management activities including budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning, vendor governance, financial performance management, and cost optimisation initiatives.
Leadership Engagement – Establish and facilitate leadership forums, executive reviews, offsites, and stakeholder engagements, ensuring effective communication, alignment, and execution across business and technology functions.
Strategic Partnership – Act as a trusted advisor to the CTO, partnering with senior leaders across Technology, Finance, Risk, HR, Strategy and global leadership teams to improve organisational effectiveness, strengthen governance, and deliver sustainable business outcomes.

Essential Skills:

• 15+ years of experience in business management, strategy, business analysis, and process improvement within large-scale technology organisations, with experience in a global bank.

• Proven experience supporting leadership at an Executive level in driving strategic planning, execution governance, and organisational transformation.

• Experience leading large-scale technology or business transformation programmes in complex, matrix organisations.

• Demonstrated ability to develop and operationalise technology strategies, annual operating plans (AOPs), OKRs, roadmaps, and business performance frameworks.

• Experience in portfolio management, prioritisation, investment planning, and strategic resource allocation.

• Experience developing executive-level dashboards, balanced scorecards, KPI frameworks, and performance reporting for senior leadership teams and boards.

• Ability to facilitate executive workshops, strategic planning sessions, leadership offsites, and decision-making forums.

• Experience coordinating leadership team cadences for the CTO and relevant initiatives.

• Experience working in Agile environments with the ability to translate strategy into executable initiatives, user stories, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to leverage data and insights to shape business and technology strategy.

• Experience managing cross-functional stakeholders across Technology, Product, Finance, Risk, HR, Procurement, and Enterprise Strategy functions.

• Ability to influence senior executives and drive outcomes through collaboration rather than authority.

• Experience working across global teams and geographies to align strategic priorities and execution outcomes.

• Ability to act as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to the CTO and the wider Technology Leadership Team.

• Ability to work as a liaison between technology strategy and business management teams in CBA India and CTO Global.

• Strong communication, storytelling, and executive presentation skills, with experience preparing materials for executive committees, boards, and regulatory reviews.

• Demonstrated ability to drive organisational effectiveness, workforce planning, talent strategy, and succession planning.

Education Qualification: Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree.