DGM/ Senior Manager – Strategic Initiatives, HO Strategy, Mumbai

About Us
Godrej Properties is among the fastest growing real estate companies in India, having grown by over 5
times in the last 5 years and earned the distinction of being the largest listed real estate developer in
India during FY 2015-16. We aim to accelerate this momentum further over next few years and are
looking for motivated individuals to be a part of our growth story.

Godrej Properties has a unique Joint Venture based development model which helps us to keep an
asset light balance sheet, thereby mitigating financial risks associated with a debt heavy structure,
supports independent scale-up of local operations across various geographies and create a strong
business development pipeline.

GPL has been consistently ranked amongst the top 2 places to work in the Real Estate segment in the
“Great Places to Work” survey. We take much pride in fostering an inspiring workplace, with an agile
and high performance culture. We are also deeply committed to recognising and valuing diversity
across our teams. GPL brings the Godrej Group philosophy of innovation, sustainability and excellence
to the real estate industry. Each development combines a 119–year legacy of excellence and trust with
a commitment to cutting-edge design and technology. Godrej Properties is currently developing
residential, commercial and township projects spread across approximately 125 million sq.ft. in 12
cities.

Why join us?

We promise Godrejites a culture of tough love; take serious bets on them and differentiate basis
performance. We also understand that our team members play multi-faceted roles and so, we strongly
encourage them to explore their whole selves. We truly believe that while our amazing past
distinguishes us, we are only as good as what we do next. We are looking for aspirational professionals
who are motivated by innovation, creative thinking and collaboration. You will join a team of some of
the best and brightest who are working together to build a company and a brand that is making a
difference.
Role Summary:
The role is with the Strategic Initiatives Team, which is part of the HO Strategy Team at Godrej
Properties Head Office in Mumbai. The HO Strategy Team consists of rich pedigree of professionals
from top B-schools with prior experience in top investment banks and consulting firms.

Strategic Initiatives vertical is the in-house consulting and corporate strategy arm for GPL. The team
is responsible for leading large scale transformation projects which have significant impact on the
company’s growth, profitability and long term capability development e.g. cost reduction, process
improvement, organisation structure design, etc. The work also entails working with external
consultants such as Bain, McKinsey, etc. to drive strategic priorities.

The role offers high visibility as you will work closely with GPL’s senior leadership team, provides
excellent leadership development opportunities and over time offers a high growth path to Business
head, CXO positions within GPL. The rich experience and skill enhancement that this role offers is
much sought after in the real estate sector as well as strategy roles across industries.

HO Strategy team engages on business critical topics with work structured around 3 key verticals:
Strategic Initiatives, Asset Management, Business planning. While these are structured as
separate verticals, team members typically move across verticals and regions often managing multiple
projects/work streams across verticals.

Role Specifications:

Responsibility Key Activities

Area

• Work with Functional Heads and Region Heads on key strategic assignments
• Conduct detailed design of initiatives, bringing in best practices and insights
from internal and external sources
• Identify and address gaps in business process and ensure their effective
implementation across the organization

Strategic • Drive implementation with cross-functional teams and regional teams

Initiatives • Own the execution and delivery of all chosen transformational projects and
ensure regular problem solving, tracking and de-bottlenecking
• Project management of large scale initiatives – escalation of issues and
roadblocks along with mitigating actions to relevant owners, sponsors and
senior leadership team members
• Working with external consultants like Bain, McKinsey to drive strategic
priorities
Responsibility Key Activities
Area

• Working on short-term strategic assignments for MD’s office

• Working closely with the Business Planning team & Zonal Strategy teams
Business during the annual operating plan preparation
Planning • Leading initiatives to improve the business planning processes e.g.
overhead budgeting process

Executive • Preparing executive presentations for Chairman, MD and Board of Directors

communication

Working Relationships (Internal and External)

Interface Type Purpose of Interaction
Internal Interface
MD , Function Heads and
For Strategic assignments and Executive communication
Zonal Heads
HO Functional Teams
Solution Design, Implementation and Overall Project Management
Regional teams & Project
Directors

Skills Required:
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, and business acumen
• Ability to present issues clearly and provide answers
• Strong leadership, influencing and people management skills to be able to drive cross
functional assignments and decisions
• Strong communication skills (both written and oral) to engage with senior stakeholders and to
make CEO–level presentations
• Proficiency in MS- excel modelling, sound understanding of financial modelling
• High on initiative, ownership, pro-active approach and self-driven
• A knack for fun through innovation and out-of-box thinking and the energy to go the extra mile

Qualification & Experience:

• Undergrad from leading institutions
• MBA from Tier 1 (IIMs/ISB/MDI/XLRI/FMS) or international business schools – preferably
from the 2017 or 2018 batch
• Experience: Minimum 2 years’ experience in a Top Management consulting firm such as
McKinsey, Bain, BCG and A.T. Kearney
• Experience of working on large business transformation projects with cross-functional teams
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