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Business Strategist

IMC Trading
🇮🇳MumbaiMediorFull-timePosted September 23, 2026

About the Role

The Business Strategist is a key hire as IMC India builds out its Business Strategy function to support the office's rapid growth ambitions over the coming years. You will join a small, high-impact team working closely with IMC's India leadership and trading desk leads, and you will report to the Head of Business Strategy and Corporate Development for India.

  • Contribute to and shape definition of strategic priorities to help the India team achieve its growth ambitions over the next years, assessing attractiveness of new opportunities based on opportunity size, competition, and internal capabilities.
  • Drive real business impact by supporting the execution of the defined strategic priorities, translating the strategy into planning and building annual plans that tie to the long-term strategy with trading, tech and support teams.
  • Support on specific (ad hoc) strategic problems and opportunities, detecting and solving problems analytically, identifying operational bottlenecks, and running strategy off-sites for teams.
  • Gather external insights, assess their implications for IMC strategy and help decide on a response, including corporate development projects such as leading acquisitions and establishing partnerships.
  • Develop a perspective on industry trends and the competitive landscape in the field of trading.

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 new opportunities based on opportunity size, competition, and internal capabilities
  • 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
  • Build annual plans that tie to the long-term strategy with trading, tech and support teams
  • 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 problem-solving skills to work towards solutions
  • Run strategy off-sites for teams
  • Hold workshop to improve efficiency of central trading processes
  • Gather external insights, assess their implications for IMC strategy and help decide on a response
  • 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)
  • Develop a perspective on industry trends/developments as well as on the competitive landscape in the secretive field of trading
  • Conduct global competitive analyses into the Indian and global equity markets, make a mapping of various players, revenues, FTEs, trading styles and strategies

Requirements

  • Experience at a top-tier consulting firm in strategy, preferably at the manager level or higher
  • Outstanding problem solving and people skills
  • Bachelor's degree in STEM from a Tier 1 University mandatory
  • 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