Business Strategy Manager

About the Role

We are looking for a results-driven strategy professional to anchor business strategy, analytics and operational finance for the hospital. This is a high-visibility role working directly with senior management and clinical leadership turning data into decisions, driving topline growth, protecting margins, and shaping pricing and expansion strategy. The ideal candidate breaks problems down with a structured, hypothesis-driven approach and is equally comfortable building a P&L model, running a revenue audit, and presenting insights to the board.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Business Intelligence

• Develop Monthly Business Review (MBR) and MIS reports for management and board-level review.
• Conduct market analysis, trend forecasting and segmentation to identify emerging revenue channels and growth opportunities.
• Structure ambiguous business problems into clear, hypothesis-driven workstreams and drive them to a decision.
• Partner with business development to build new verticals and B2B / aggregator partnerships.

Pricing & P&L

• Design and implement pricing protocols and structures across specialties, payer types (Cash, Insurance, Schemes) and care settings.
• Build and monitor specialty-wise and department-wise P&L; conduct doctor-wise and vendor-wise margin analysis (MoM and YoY).
• Lead the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and budgeting exercise; prepare rolling forecasts.

Revenue & Cost Optimization

• Run recurring revenue audits to identify and arrest revenue leakage and improve conversion mix.
• Conduct audits to optimize COGS across drugs, consumables, implants and general line items.
• Build surgical / consumable formulary controls for OT, ICU and wards.

Project Finance & Decision Support

• Support CAPEX / OPEX planning, business-case analysis and ROI evaluation for high-end biomedical equipment and new projects.
• Build dynamic dashboards (Power BI / Tableau) for data-driven decision-making by management.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• 610 years in business strategy, analytics or operational finance, within the hospital / healthcare industry.
• Demonstrated experience working with senior management (CXO) and / or the board preparing and presenting reports to CXOs
• Strong grounding in hospital P&L, pricing, revenue cycle and cost optimization.
• Hands-on expertise in Power BI, Tableau and Advanced Excel (Power Pivot / Macros); ERP exposure a plus.
• Background in business administration plus a quantitative / technical discipline (e.g., Engineering / Finance / MBA) preferred.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and cross-functional collaboration skills, with strong executive communication.
• Bias for action and ownership, comfort operating in ambiguity, and alignment with the groups educationhealthcarehospitality ethos.

What Success Looks Like

• Established, board-ready MBR / MIS reporting cadence.
• Measurable margin improvement through revenue-leakage and COGS-optimization audits.
• A live speciality P&L framework adopted by management.