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.