Business Strategist

The Strategy Manager is a new role the India team has created to help them achieve their rapid growth ambitions for the next years. You will work in close collaboration with IMC’s Indian leadership team and you will report to the Managing Director of the India office, Jocelyn Dentand. The working environment is collaborative and non-hierarchical, and you will manage various stakeholders both internally and externally.

Your Core Responsibilities:

• Contribute to and shape definition of strategic priorities to help the India team achieve its growth ambitions over the next years.
  • Assess attractiveness of a new opportunities based on opportunity size, competition, and internal capabilities.
  • For example: make a business case for trading a new class of products, with cost and benefits analysis and an organizational, legal and compliance set-up.
• Drive real business impact by supporting the execution of the defined strategic priorities
  • Help translate the strategy into planning.
  • Support execution of specific strategic priorities.
  • For example: build annual plans that tie to the long-term strategy with trading, tech and support teams, or develop a joint roadmap for the various teams that trade cryptocurrencies, including taking care of the synergies between the teams.
• Support on specific (ad hoc) strategic problems and opportunities
  • Detect and solve ad hoc problems in a solution-oriented way by using analytical skills.
  • Help detect (operational) bottlenecks within the organization and apply your problem-solving skills to work towards solutions.
  • Run strategy off-sites for teams.
  • For example: hold workshop to improve efficiency of central trading processes.
• Gather external insights, asses their implications for IMC strategy and help decide on a response
  • Ongoing external engagement: play a pivotal role in corporate development projects relevant to the business (e.g. identify threats, opportunities and actions for IMC, leading acquisitions, establishing partnerships, etc.).
  • Develop a perspective on industry trends/developments as well as on the competitive landscape in the secretive field of trading.
  • For example: conduct global competitive analyses into the Indian and global equity markets, make a mapping of various players, revenues, FTEs, trading styles and strategies.

Your Skills and Experience:

• Experience at a top-tier consulting firm in strategy, preferably at the manager level or higher
• Outstanding problem solving and people skills
• Master’s degree in Physics, Mathematics or Econometrics
• Ability to deal with organizational complexity and ambiguity
• Capable of dealing with a large scope of and senior stakeholders
• Likes to work in an innovative technology driven fast-paced environment, surrounded by highly educated, ambitious and collaborative colleagues

About Us

IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.