Position: Program Leader

Organization: Piramal Foundation

Location: New Delhi

JOB BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:

Program Leader shall:

• Collaborate with peers and leaders to develop disruptive, discontinuous ideas into actionable business line/organizational strategies

• Communicate effectively with the external/internal stakeholders, create business documents

• Facilitate small/large groups to problem solve for and co-create solutions, and drive/influence agenda.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:

Contribution to strategy, design:

a: Conduct research for specific business functions, initiatives, and projects

b: Ideate, setup experiences to co-create draft concept papers/proposals on business expansion, change initiatives

c: Prepare business documents to communicate with board members, donors and external stakeholders

Set up and lead the collaboration between and within businesses:

a: Identify the critical constraints, cull insights for the existing business functions and projects

b: Track, assess and analyse the progress of initiatives/projects/ businesses

c: Design robust and effective governance mechanism for managing initiatives and projects

d: Synthesize updates from businesses, create dashboards/formats for CEO/ Core Team Members/ External Stakeholders

Support in ensuring strategic excellence:

a: 20% Facilitate communication between CEO/External Stakeholders and Core Team Members/Projects Teams/Functions

b: Prepare tools and formats to ensure excellence, drive initiatives and shared meaning across the functions

Support functions in other miscellaneous assignments:

a: Provide support to different business functions/projects as and when required 20%

b: Deliver on other projects and tasks assigned by CEO/External Stakeholders/Core Team Members

WORK CONDITION AND ENVIRONMENT:

a: The person should be willing to take up responsibilities & travel with short notice periods

b: Open to working on short deadlines, deliver projects over weekends

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES

1. Skills/Abilities

a. Collaborate with diverse group of people

b. Manage, influence, and facilitate multiple stakeholders for shared/agreed goal and agenda

c. Communicate effectively, written (English) and oral (English and Hindi); synthesize and articulate complex concepts in easy-to-understand ways

d. Think analytically and problem solve to decipher insights for the business, project

e. Prioritize, anticipate internal & external stakeholder expectations to manage projects/ deliverables efficiently

f. Create quality Business documents on MS Office Suite

2. Attributes

a. Open to working in highly ambiguous environment

b. Demonstrate extraordinary rigor in completing the assignments

c. Ability to manage high levels of stress

d. Drive for excellence and self-reflective

e. Entrepreneurial, quick learner, can adapt to new roles with ease