Business Strategist
IMC Trading
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Description
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. The working environment is collaborative and non-hierarchical, and you will manage a wide range of stakeholders.
Your Core 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 a new opportunities based on opportunity size, competition, and internal capabilities.
- For example: 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.
- For example: build annual plans that tie to the long-term strategy with trading, tech and support teams, or 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 your problem-solving skills to work towards solutions.
- Run strategy off-sites for teams.
- For example: hold workshop to improve efficiency of central trading processes.
- Gather external insights, asses their implications for IMC strategy and help decide on a response
- Ongoing external engagement: 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, etc.).
- Develop a perspective on industry trends/developments as well as on the competitive landscape in the secretive field of trading.
- For example: conduct global competitive analyses into the Indian and global equity markets, make a mapping of various players, revenues, FTEs, trading styles and strategies.
Your Skills and Experience:
- 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
About Us
IMC is a research-driven trading firm where quantitative modeling, machine learning, and engineering shape how modern markets are traded. A stabilizing force in markets since 1989, we provide liquidity across trading venues, delivering the best outcome in value and risk management to investors. Using our own technology and capital, we build proprietary systems and algorithms that operate across global markets. Our researchers, traders, and engineers work as a collective, combining rapid experimentation, advanced infrastructure, and real-time feedback to turn insight into execution and execution into advantage.
Benefits
- stock options
About this role
IMC Trading is building out its Business Strategy function in Mumbai, and this role offers the chance to shape that function from the ground up. You'll work closely with India leadership and trading desk leads on high-impact strategic priorities—from evaluating new product opportunities and building business cases, to translating long-term strategy into executable annual plans across trading, tech, and support teams. The scope is broad: you'll tackle ad hoc strategic problems, run strategy workshops, identify operational bottlenecks, and lead corporate development work including competitive analysis and potential partnerships. This is a small team environment with direct access to senior stakeholders and a collaborative, non-hierarchical culture.
The role demands strong analytical and problem-solving skills paired with the ability to manage complex organizational dynamics and ambiguity. You'll need experience from a top-tier consulting firm at manager level or above, ideally with a background in strategy. A master's degree in Physics, Mathematics, or Econometrics is required. The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced, technology-driven settings and can engage comfortably with highly educated, ambitious colleagues across multiple functions.
This is a full-time, in-office position in Mumbai. It suits someone ready to move beyond consulting into a hands-on strategic role where you'll see your recommendations executed directly, within a research-driven trading firm known for quantitative rigor and innovation.
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