Head of Strategy

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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 fo

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