Role: Manager - Strategy & Planning
Location: Bangalore

Who are we and What do we do?
InMobi Group’s mission is to power intelligent, mobile-first experiences for enterprises and consumers. Its businesses across advertising, marketing, data and content platforms are shaping consumer experience in a world of connected devices. InMobi Group has been recognized on both the 2018 and 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 list and as one of Fast Company’s 2018 World’s Most Innovative Companies.

What’s the InMobi family like?
Consistently featured among the “Great Places to Work” in India since 2017, our culture is our true north, enabling us to think big, solve complex challenges and grow with new opportunities. InMobians are passionate and driven, creative and fun-loving, take ownership and are results-focused. We invite you to free yourself, dream big and chase your passion.

What do we promise?
We offer an opportunity to have an immediate impact on the company and our products. The work that you shall do will be mission-critical for InMobi and will be critical for optimizing tech operations, working with highly capable and ambitious peer groups. At InMobi, you get food for your body, soul, and mind with daily meals, gym, and yoga classes, cutting-edge training, and tools, cocktails at drink cart Thursdays and fun at work on Funky Fridays. We even promise to let you bring your kids and pets to work.

Position Summary:
InMobi is seeking an analytical, process and detail-oriented Strategy & Business Planning Manager to lead the development of strategic and operational growth plans for InMobi Marketing Cloud’s various lines of business. The Strategy & Planning Manager will work with leaders across the business to create a connected, cohesive, global go-to-market strategy that supports our continued and exponential growth. Acting as an internal consultant, this role will be tasked with financial modelling, forecasting and proactively identifying future needs to ensure the business is operationally ready as the strategy evolves. This role is part of the Central Strategy and Operations team
at InMobi.

Who you are:

• Analytical. You appreciate a good spreadsheet, are comfortable with big data sets and are meticulous in your metrics. You have a track record of driving actionable insights that result in measurable growth.
• Collaborative by nature. You have experience partnering cross-functionally with Product, Finance, Marketing and HR, amongst other groups. You’re a strong team player and can work effectively with others across time zones in a global set up.
• Project manager. You can clearly communicate, present and project manage the entire quarterly and annual processes end-to-end. You have experience in planning, execution and project delivery.
• A strategic thinker. You lean on your market experience and commercial instincts to build and drive the company’s growth strategy.
• Accountable. You feel comfortable making quick decisions independently and can navigate a fast paced environment with limited direction. You take ownership of deliverables and focus on preparedness.
• Highly organized and detail oriented. You can handle multiple, conflicting priorities and manage deliverables in a matrixed environment. You can bring attention to inter-dependencies between groups.
• Process oriented. You have experience automating complex processes, creating efficiency at scale across global teams. 

What will you be doing:

• Develop and lead InMobi’s strategic planning process and operating cadence including forecasting, MBRs/QBRs, annual and long-range plans.
• Analyze ad technology and mobile marketing industry trends using third-party research and translate analysis into meaningful takeaways to support project and plan narratives.
• Partner across functions (finance, HR, marketing, product), lines of business (platform, field sales), and business stakeholders to build business cases, create sales and marketing strategies and identify revenue-driving opportunities.
• Facilitate a seamless partnership with Finance to make sure platform and field sales plans and forecasts align with our budget.
• Synthesize project work for leadership consumption to make effective, analytically driven decisions regarding the global operating model, including creating compelling presentation materials.
• Manage/ drive a wide variety of projects simultaneously and partner closely with numerous cross functional partners across the  organization to ensure best in class collaboration across all plans.
• Continuously evaluate the effectiveness of our planning process and operating cadence; Regularly communicate and coordinate with stakeholders across IMC to execute on set plans, establish effective feedback loops, remove blockers and accelerate escalations if plans will not be met
• Evaluate, recommend, and implement a connected planning tool to enable us to plan efficiently across our matrixed organization at scale.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5-10 years' work experience. With significant experience in a Business Operations, Analytics or Planning role (e.g., Sales Operations, Sales Finance, Corp Dev, and/or Strategy/Operations Consulting)
• MBA or graduate degree in an analytical field

Why Join Us?
You will contribute to creating disruptive and innovative consumer experiences using technology. We value autonomy, collaboration, technical innovation, and results-oriented thinking. InMobi’s culture is all about rewarding excellence so there are fantastic opportunities for the right candidates