Bosch

Head of Strategy

Bosch  •  Bengaluru, IN (Onsite)  •  2 days ago
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Company Description

Bosch Global Software Technologies Private Limited is a 100% owned subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH, one of the world's leading global supplier of technology and services, offering end-to-end Engineering, IT and Business Solutions. With over 25,000+ associates, it’s the largest software development center of Bosch, outside Germany, indicating that it is the Technology Powerhouse of Bosch in India with a global footprint and presence in the US, Europe and the Asia Pacific region.

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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 formal authority.
  • Outcome-oriented, rigorous, and effective in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.

Qualifications

Any Engineering, Post Graduate

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About Bosch

The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. It employs roughly 417,900 associates worldwide (as of December 31, 2024). According to preliminary figures, the company generated sales of 90.5 billion euros in 2024. Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. With its business activities, the company aims to use technology to help shape universal trends such as automation, electrification, digitalization, connectivity, and an orientation to sustainability. In this context, Bosch’s broad diversification across regions and industries strengthens its innovativeness and robustness. Bosch uses its proven expertise in sensor technology, software, and services to offer customers cross-domain solutions from a single source. It also applies its expertise in connectivity and artificial intelligence in order to develop and manufacture user-friendly, sustainable products. With technology that is “Invented for life,” Bosch wants to help improve quality of life and conserve natural resources. The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its roughly 470 subsidiary and regional companies in over 60 countries. Including sales and service partners, Bosch’s global manufacturing, engineering, and sales network covers nearly every country in the world. Bosch’s innovative strength is key to the company’s further development. At 136 locations across the globe, Bosch employs some 86,900 associates in research and development, of which nearly 48,000 are software engineers.

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Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Gerlingen-Schillerhöhe, DE
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
bosch.com
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