119 Strategy Lead jobs in Malaysia

Overview

The Regional Strategy Director for Asia/SEA is a pivotal leadership role responsible for driving strategic
excellence across Asia/SEA on the OneMars team. Acting as a connector between global strategic intent
and local execution, this individual will partner closely with Segment Leads and Planning Teams to shape
future-facing brand strategies, build scalable frameworks, and drive multi-market cohesion.
This role is integral to elevating the strategic backbone of OneMars Asia/SEA, governing performance
benchmarking, codifying best practices, and ensuring consistent alignment with Mars’ global vision—
while enabling creative and media integration at the campaign and annual planning level.

Responsibilities

Regional Strategic Blueprinting

• Partner with AMEA Segment Leads to co-develop regional strategic blueprints, including
  frameworks for:
  • Connected Identity (e.g., Growth Cohorts)
  • Category Entry Points
  • Brand Experience Architecture
  • Integrated Intelligence-led Content Strategies
• Align with global strategy to localize and implement brand frameworks across regional markets
  while honoring local nuances.

Multi-Market Planning & Growth Identification

• Lead regional multi-market planning efforts across Asia/SEA.
• Identify white space and growth opportunities, leveraging data and insights to inform prioritization.
• Harmonize regional campaign execution when scale efficiencies apply.

Strategic Governance & Best Practices

• Govern the strategic backbone through codified processes, benchmark tracking, and knowledge sharing using Marcel and other internal systems.
• Ensure fidelity to global standards while providing room for regional innovation.

Creative & Media Integration

• Serve as a strategic bridge between media and creative teams, ensuring alignment between media strategies and creative development.
• Contribute to the development of strategic inputs for creative briefs and campaign planning.
• Co-lead or support annual brand planning and campaign briefings with local teams and creative/media partners.

Cross-Functional & Cross-Market Collaboration

• Collaborate closely with Planning Teams, Segment Leads, and Orchestration Lead to embed strategy into operational workflows.
• Actively support cross-agency collaboration, ensuring integrated delivery across PESO channels and capability teams.

Stakeholder Engagement & Global Alignment

• Partner with global strategy and business leads to maintain strategic consistency and vertical alignment across the Mars ecosystem.
• Facilitate knowledge flow between global, regional, and local stakeholders, creating an
  environment of co-creation and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in marketing, brand strategy, integrated communications, or regional planning roles, with 5+ years in senior APAC/SEA strategic leadership.
• Strong capability in both upstream strategic thinking and downstream operational execution.
• Proven experience leading multi-market brand and communication strategies, preferably in the FMCG or consumer brand category.
• Familiarity with Connected ID, audience frameworks, brand architecture, and digital media strategy.
• Strong experience in integrated agency environments (creative + media) and managing PESObased strategic campaigns.
• Adept at navigating matrixed organizations with multiple stakeholders and priorities.
• Highly collaborative, with a proactive, solutions-first mindset and the ability to synthesize complexity into compelling strategies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with proven experience presenting strategies to C-suite clients and global stakeholders.
• Deep cultural fluency and agility in working across diverse markets and organizational structures.

Additional information

• Generous leave entitlements, including birthday leave, rest day and family care leave.
• Office closure for World Mental Health Day 10th October.
• Additional Company closure for all 4 major festive Celebrations
• Cashless comprehensive medical coverage, including access to a panel clinic, dental and optical care.
• Life and personal accident insurance and group hospitalization and surgery.
• A hybrid working schedule and with Friday disconnects.
• Rest Relax & Recharge - office closure last week of December every year.
• Phone Allowance

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Funding Societies | Modalku is the largest SME digital finance platform in Southeast Asia. We are licensed and operating in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam, and backed by Sequoia India (Peak XV), Softbank Vision Fund, Khazanah and SMBC bank amongst many others. Funding Societies | Modalku provides business financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which is funded by individual and institutional investors, as well as payments solutions to SMEs and consumers.

Here at Funding Societies | Modalku we live by our core values GETFS:

• Grow Relentlessly: Strive to become our best, most authentic selves.
• Enable Teamwork, Disable Politics: Only by forging togetherness, we help each other succeed.
• Test Measure Act: Stay curious and reinvent ourselves, through innovation and experimentation.
• Focus on Impact: Create impact through bias for action and tangible results.
• Serve with Obsession: Build win-win relationships for the long-term by having a customer obsession.

We are seeking a highly capable, strategic, and execution-driven leader to support the Country Head in driving cross-team alignment, accelerating strategic initiatives, managing key partnerships, and improving organizational effectiveness across Funding Societies Malaysia. As a strategic partner to the Country Head, this role enables a sharper focus on priority of commercial, operational, product, and strategic domains.

The ideal candidate will not only shape and execute high impact initiatives but will also bring versatile leadership to proactively strengthen key areas alongside the Country Head , in stabilizing and elevating functions to ensure continuity and long term success.

What you will do:

1. Cross-Functional Leadership & Strategy Execution

• Drive alignment and cross-learning across multiple sales and business development teams focusing on different products and SME segments.
• Identify, prioritize, and implement commercial and operational improvement initiatives that drive revenue, risk-adjusted returns, and productivity.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and performance reviews with functional leaders to ensure consistent delivery of targets and KPIs.
• Collaborate with FP&A to track business performance and support commercial budgeting processes.
• Provide hands-on, targeted leadership for priority initiatives where functional alignment is needed.
  

2. SME & Institutional Partnerships

• Create strategy and roadmap for strategic partnerships across Malaysia-based SME ecosystems, including digital banks, fintech platforms, and ecosystem enablers, enabling sales teams.
• Serve as the relationship lead for partners whose engagement spans multiple segments, products, or investor bases.
• Structure, negotiate, and operationalize partnership models to drive mutual value and scalability.

3. Product & Innovation Leadership

• Act as commercial and operational lead for select financial product verticals, collaborating with Group Product, Credit, and Risk teams to shape roadmaps, pricing strategies, and go-to-market approaches.
  

4. Strategic Projects & Business Growth

• Drive key strategic initiatives on behalf of the Country Head or Group Leadership, including new product launches, market expansion efforts, and programs designed to boost revenue growth and enhance overall financial performance.
• Support the development of strategic business plans and investor narratives, working closely with internal and external stakeholders.

What we are looking for:

Experience & Background:

• 7–12 years of experience in strategy, fintech, consulting, product, or business operations.

• Commercial and financial literacy: Strong commercial acumen with demonstrated experience managing cross-functional projects or teams.
• Experience working with FP&A or finance teams on commercial budgeting, business planning, and P&L understanding.

• Proven track record in building partnerships, launching new products, or leading business transformation initiatives.
• Analytical, structured, and results-oriented with strong communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Familiarity with fund structuring and investor engagement via wholesale funds, VCC, or other capital-raising structures.
• Demonstrated ability to take strategic concepts from idea to measurable results in complex, fast-moving environments.
• Experience leading through change and ambiguity, influencing diverse stakeholders to align behind new priorities.
• High resilience under pressure, with the ability to rapidly adapt priorities in response to shifting market, organisational, or regulatory conditions.
• Strong track record of driving outcomes through cross-functional teams without direct line authority, including conflict resolution and alignment-building

Preferred Attributes

• Familiarity with SME lending, digital financial services, or embedded finance models.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders, institutional investors, or government-linked organizations.
• Passion for technology, innovation, and data-driven execution—especially in leveraging AI for business productivity.

• Time off - We would love you to take time off to rest and rejuvenate. We offer flexible paid vacations as well as many other observed holidays by country. We also like to have our people take a day off for special days like birthdays and work anniversaries.
• Flexible working - We believe in giving back the control of work & life to our people. We trust our people and love to provide the space to accommodate each and everyone's working style and personal life.
• Medical benefits - We offer health insurance coverage for our employees and dependents. Our people focus on our mission knowing we have their backs for their loved ones too.
• Mental health and wellness - We understand that our team productivity is directly linked to our mental and physical health. Hence we organize org-wide fitness initiatives and engage partners to provide well-being coaching.
• Tech support - We provide a company laptop for our employees and the best possible support for the right equipment/tools to enable high productivity

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Funding Societies | Modalku is the largest SME digital finance platform in Southeast Asia. We are licensed and operating in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam, and backed by Sequoia India (Peak XV), Softbank Vision Fund, Khazanah and SMBC bank amongst many others. Funding Societies | Modalku provides business financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which is funded by individual and institutional investors, as well as payments solutions to SMEs and consumers.

Here at Funding Societies | Modalku we live by our core values GETFS:

• Grow Relentlessly: Strive to become our best, most authentic selves.
• Enable Teamwork, Disable Politics: Only by forging togetherness, we help each other succeed.
• Test Measure Act: Stay curious and reinvent ourselves, through innovation and experimentation.
• Focus on Impact: Create impact through bias for action and tangible results.
• Serve with Obsession: Build win-win relationships for the long-term by having a customer obsession.

We are seeking a highly capable, strategic, and execution-driven leader to support the Country Head in driving cross-team alignment, accelerating strategic initiatives, managing key partnerships, and improving organizational effectiveness across Funding Societies Malaysia. As a strategic partner to the Country Head, this role enables a sharper focus on priority of commercial, operational, product, and strategic domains.

The ideal candidate will not only shape and execute high impact initiatives but will also bring versatile leadership to proactively strengthen key areas alongside the Country Head , in stabilizing and elevating functions to ensure continuity and long term success.

What you will do:

1. Cross-Functional Leadership & Strategy Execution

• Drive alignment and cross-learning across multiple sales and business development teams focusing on different products and SME segments.
• Identify, prioritize, and implement commercial and operational improvement initiatives that drive revenue, risk-adjusted returns, and productivity.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and performance reviews with functional leaders to ensure consistent delivery of targets and KPIs.
• Collaborate with FP&A to track business performance and support commercial budgeting processes.
• Provide hands-on, targeted leadership for priority initiatives where functional alignment is needed.
  

2. SME & Institutional Partnerships

• Create strategy and roadmap for strategic partnerships across Malaysia-based SME ecosystems, including digital banks, fintech platforms, and ecosystem enablers, enabling sales teams.
• Serve as the relationship lead for partners whose engagement spans multiple segments, products, or investor bases.
• Structure, negotiate, and operationalize partnership models to drive mutual value and scalability.

3. Product & Innovation Leadership

• Act as commercial and operational lead for select financial product verticals, collaborating with Group Product, Credit, and Risk teams to shape roadmaps, pricing strategies, and go-to-market approaches.
  

4. Strategic Projects & Business Growth

• Drive key strategic initiatives on behalf of the Country Head or Group Leadership, including new product launches, market expansion efforts, and programs designed to boost revenue growth and enhance overall financial performance.
• Support the development of strategic business plans and investor narratives, working closely with internal and external stakeholders.

What we are looking for:

Experience & Background:

• 7–12 years of experience in strategy, fintech, consulting, product, or business operations.

• Commercial and financial literacy: Strong commercial acumen with demonstrated experience managing cross-functional projects or teams.
• Experience working with FP&A or finance teams on commercial budgeting, business planning, and P&L understanding.

• Proven track record in building partnerships, launching new products, or leading business transformation initiatives.
• Analytical, structured, and results-oriented with strong communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Familiarity with fund structuring and investor engagement via wholesale funds, VCC, or other capital-raising structures.
• Demonstrated ability to take strategic concepts from idea to measurable results in complex, fast-moving environments.
• Experience leading through change and ambiguity, influencing diverse stakeholders to align behind new priorities.
• High resilience under pressure, with the ability to rapidly adapt priorities in response to shifting market, organisational, or regulatory conditions.
• Strong track record of driving outcomes through cross-functional teams without direct line authority, including conflict resolution and alignment-building

Preferred Attributes

• Familiarity with SME lending, digital financial services, or embedded finance models.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders, institutional investors, or government-linked organizations.
• Passion for technology, innovation, and data-driven execution—especially in leveraging AI for business productivity.

• Time off - We would love you to take time off to rest and rejuvenate. We offer flexible paid vacations as well as many other observed holidays by country. We also like to have our people take a day off for special days like birthdays and work anniversaries.
• Flexible working - We believe in giving back the control of work & life to our people. We trust our people and love to provide the space to accommodate each and everyone's working style and personal life.
• Medical benefits - We offer health insurance coverage for our employees and dependents. Our people focus on our mission knowing we have their backs for their loved ones too.
• Mental health and wellness - We understand that our team productivity is directly linked to our mental and physical health. Hence we organize org-wide fitness initiatives and engage partners to provide well-being coaching.
• Tech support - We provide a company laptop for our employees and the best possible support for the right equipment/tools to enable high productivity

Interested to know more about us? Learn about our Stories here .

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Funding Societies | Modalku

is the largest SME digital finance platform in Southeast Asia. We are licensed and operating in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam, and backed by Sequoia India (Peak XV), Softbank Vision Fund, Khazanah and SMBC bank amongst many others. Funding Societies | Modalku provides business financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which is funded by individual and institutional investors, as well as payments solutions to SMEs and consumers.

Here at Funding Societies | Modalku we live by our core values GETFS: Grow Relentlessly:

Strive to become our best, most authentic selves. Enable Teamwork, Disable Politics:

Only by forging togetherness, we help each other succeed. Test Measure Act:

Stay curious and reinvent ourselves, through innovation and experimentation. Focus on Impact:

Create impact through bias for action and tangible results. Serve with Obsession:

Build win-win relationships for the long-term by having a customer obsession. We are seeking a highly capable, strategic, and execution-driven leader to support the Country Head in driving cross-team alignment, accelerating strategic initiatives, managing key partnerships, and improving organizational effectiveness across Funding Societies Malaysia. As a strategic partner to the Country Head, this role enables a sharper focus on priority of commercial, operational, product, and strategic domains. The ideal candidate will not only shape and execute high impact initiatives but will also bring versatile leadership to proactively strengthen key areas alongside the Country Head , in stabilizing and elevating functions to ensure continuity and long term success. What you will do: 1. Cross-Functional Leadership & Strategy Execution Drive alignment and cross-learning across multiple sales and business development teams focusing on different products and SME segments. Identify, prioritize, and implement commercial and operational improvement initiatives that drive revenue, risk-adjusted returns, and productivity. Develop and maintain dashboards and performance reviews with functional leaders to ensure consistent delivery of targets and KPIs. Collaborate with FP&A to track business performance and support commercial budgeting processes. Provide hands-on, targeted leadership for priority initiatives where functional alignment is needed.

2. SME & Institutional Partnerships Create strategy and roadmap for strategic partnerships across Malaysia-based SME ecosystems, including digital banks, fintech platforms, and ecosystem enablers, enabling sales teams. Serve as the relationship lead for partners whose engagement spans multiple segments, products, or investor bases. Structure, negotiate, and operationalize partnership models to drive mutual value and scalability. 3. Product & Innovation Leadership Act as commercial and operational lead for select financial product verticals, collaborating with Group Product, Credit, and Risk teams to shape roadmaps, pricing strategies, and go-to-market approaches.

4. Strategic Projects & Business Growth Drive key strategic initiatives on behalf of the Country Head or Group Leadership, including new product launches, market expansion efforts, and programs designed to boost revenue growth and enhance overall financial performance. Support the development of strategic business plans and investor narratives, working closely with internal and external stakeholders. What we are looking for: Experience & Background: 7–12 years of experience in strategy, fintech, consulting, product, or business operations. Commercial and financial literacy: Strong commercial acumen with demonstrated experience managing cross-functional projects or teams. Experience working with FP&A or finance teams on commercial budgeting, business planning, and P&L understanding. Proven track record in building partnerships, launching new products, or leading business transformation initiatives. Analytical, structured, and results-oriented with strong communication and stakeholder management capabilities. Familiarity with fund structuring and investor engagement via wholesale funds, VCC, or other capital-raising structures. Demonstrated ability to take strategic concepts from idea to measurable results in complex, fast-moving environments. Experience leading through change and ambiguity, influencing diverse stakeholders to align behind new priorities. High resilience under pressure, with the ability to rapidly adapt priorities in response to shifting market, organisational, or regulatory conditions. Strong track record of driving outcomes through cross-functional teams without direct line authority, including conflict resolution and alignment-building Preferred Attributes Familiarity with SME lending, digital financial services, or embedded finance models. Experience working with senior stakeholders, institutional investors, or government-linked organizations. Passion for technology, innovation, and data-driven execution—especially in leveraging AI for business productivity. Time off - We would love you to take time off to rest and rejuvenate. We offer flexible paid vacations as well as many other observed holidays by country. We also like to have our people take a day off for special days like birthdays and work anniversaries. Flexible working - We believe in giving back the control of work & life to our people. We trust our people and love to provide the space to accommodate each and everyone's working style and personal life. Medical benefits - We offer health insurance coverage for our employees and dependents. Our people focus on our mission knowing we have their backs for their loved ones too. Mental health and wellness - We understand that our team productivity is directly linked to our mental and physical health. Hence we organize org-wide fitness initiatives and engage partners to provide well-being coaching. Tech support - We provide a company laptop for our employees and the best possible support for the right equipment/tools to enable high productivity Interested to know more about us? Learn about our Stories

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Assistant Manager, Agency Strategic Initiatives page is loadedAssistant Manager, Agency Strategic Initiatives Apply locations Kuala Lumpur time type Full time posted on Posted 2 Days Ago job requisition id 25040374

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people’s career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities:

• Actively participate in the planning, formulation, implementation, and monitoring of long and short-term strategies particularly for Y2 onwards agents and leaders and drive the development and management of Top Tier agents (i.e. MDRT) and MDRT Builder.

• Support immediate supervisor in preparing analysis, proposal, and management presentations with respect to long and short-term strategies / initiatives for Agency Distribution, aiming to create / strengthen a value proposition aligning with the Company’s business and strategic direction.

• Working closely with Regional Heads and MDRT Workstream on the MDRT aspirants by providing the MDRT reporting, tracking of their performance and performance analysis. Identify potential opportunity / area of improvement / learning, for future strategic planning and management.

• Collaborate with key stakeholders from all functions in managing the development of leaders and Y2 onwards strategy including MDRT agents and MDRT Builder such as introduction of MDRT and MDRT Builder privileges and initiatives, recognition and/or promotion of MDRT qualification, MDRT Networking session, Mentor and Mentee Program, etc.

• Promote awareness through events and activities to increase branding awareness of MDRT and MDRT Builder across all regions and among agencies.

• Assist immediate supervisor in development of compelling propositions, preparing campaigns and branding / promotional materials related to MDRT for Agency Distribution.

• Participate in various company-wide business initiatives as required. Follow-up-and-follow-through any actions needed to ensure smooth implementation of strategies and initiatives and ensure timely delivery of key milestones of the implementation plans.

• Roles and responsibilities are not limited to the list above and may include ad hoc tasks that may arise from time to time.

Job Specification:

a. Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing or any other related field

b. Experience

• Minimum 5 years of relevant working experience with life insurance knowledge and engagement with agency, especially in Agency Distribution / Agency Strategy / Projects Management Office.

c. Knowledge

• Strong analytical skills and ability to connect the dots.
• Strong communication skills with ability to communicate with the team, internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to articulate strategies in the form of business presentations.
• Project management skills and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Has a good command of written and spoken English.
• Self-motivated and able to work under minimum supervision always.
• Demonstrate high willingness to learn and go beyond status quo.
• Works well under pressure, and a good team player.
• Proficient in Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word & Microsoft Excel.

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.

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Assistant Manager, CX Strategic Initiatives & Transformation

Apply at Menara Affin, TRX | Full-time | Posted Today | Requisition ID: JR103299

Create your future with Affin!

Join us at AFFIN, where open minds meet and inspire each other through a shared commitment to excellence. Stay at the forefront of the industry and make a meaningful impact.

Key Responsibilities

1. Project Management: Serve as the key liaison for CX transformation, monitor project progress, and consolidate updates. Lead the implementation of strategies to enhance customer experience. Assist in developing project plans, timelines, and deliverables, proactively addressing potential roadblocks.
2. Strategic Planning: Support the development of CX strategies aligned with organizational goals. Conduct market research, benchmarking, and data analysis to identify best practices and innovative strategies. Collaborate with unit heads on annual plans and initiatives.
3. Customer-Centric Culture: Promote and develop customer-centric initiatives and change management programs to foster a service-oriented culture across the bank.
4. Communication & Reporting: Create communication strategies, oversee content creation for newsletters and reports, and ensure messaging aligns with CX goals. Prepare updates and reports for leadership.
5. Cross-Collaboration & Stakeholder Management: Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, serve as a trusted advisor, and incorporate feedback into project planning. Ensure alignment across teams on goals and priorities.
6. Budget & Vendor Management: Assist in budget planning, monitor expenses, liaise with procurement, and manage vendor relationships and renewals.
7. Reporting & Administration: Develop tracking mechanisms and dashboards for KPIs, prepare status reports, and support meeting coordination and documentation.

Additional Information

Similar roles include Assistant Manager, CX Insights & Measurement, and Lead, Customer Journey Innovation, both based at Menara Affin, TRX.

Join AFFIN as we evolve into a future-ready financial institution, embracing innovation and technology to deliver unparalleled customer service. We seek colleagues aligned with our values and ready to make a difference.

Our tagline “Always About You” reflects our dedication to understanding and meeting customer needs, fostering loyalty, and building a reputation for creativity and innovation. We prioritize our people and our community, continuously adapting to the digital age to provide exceptional service.

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Role

The Lead, Strategy & Special Projects is a managerial position within the Group Strategy team, reporting to the Head of Strategy & Special Projects. The role manages a team of project leaders and junior analysts with key objectives including:

• Supporting the definition of the Group’s long-term strategy and future direction
• Developing and implementing strategic initiatives across the Group in collaboration with other departments
• Acting as an internal strategy consultant on ad-hoc key business issues within the Group
  
  

Role

The Lead, Strategy & Special Projects is a managerial position within the Group Strategy team, reporting to the Head of Strategy & Special Projects. The role manages a team of project leaders and junior analysts with key objectives including:

• Supporting the definition of the Group’s long-term strategy and future direction
• Developing and implementing strategic initiatives across the Group in collaboration with other departments
• Acting as an internal strategy consultant on ad-hoc key business issues within the Group
  
  

Key Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from a top global university (minimum 2:1 or equivalent)
• MBA from a top-tier business school is a notable advantage
• CFA / ACCA qualification is an added advantage
• Minimum 5 years of work experience
• Background in reputed strategy consulting firms is highly preferred
• Familiarity with the financial services industry demonstrated through past project work or roles in the sector
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Familiar with numerical and financial analysis (business case modelling, financial modelling, operational analysis)
• Excellent project management and execution skills
• Strong leadership with team management and coaching experience
• Advanced proficiency in MS PowerPoint and Excel
• Persuasive communication skills, especially with senior stakeholders
• Growth mindset and eagerness to learn
• Experience with data analytics tools such as Alteryx, Tableau, and Power BI is a plus

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Product area

The Go-to-Market Operations (GtM) team ensures Google's complex and ever-evolving Ads business runs smoothly. We are instrumental in setting go-to-market strategy, and ensuring flawless execution and operations against the strategy. We have teams embedded in each of the major Ads business areas as well as global teams that work across the business areas. Team members are analytical and strategic, with a pragmatic sense of how to get things done.

Job description

The Business Strategy & Operations organization provides business critical insights using analytics, ensures cross functional alignment of goals and execution, and helps teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. We stay focused on aligning the highest-level company priorities with effective day-to-day operations, and help evolve early stage ideas into future-growth initiatives.

Additional job description

The team is responsible for setting go-to-market strategy, shaping priorities and resources to accelerate business growth, and commercializing the Ads products. The team plays an important role in building go-to-market infrastructure from tooling to helping the business with execution and operations against desired business outcomes and priorities.

In this role, you will be responsible for accelerating business growth, enabling product adoption and future-proofing the Asia-Pacific (APAC) business by delivering on core remit like designing and deploying regional activation program, providing thought leadership on product activation and execution and nurture and advance third-party ecosystems, agencies and industry groups.

Qualifications Job responsibilities

• Be the Google Analytics and Attribution expert for the region.
• Identify, develop and execute go-to-market strategies to accelerate adoption of Google Analytics and Attribution solutions among advertisers and partners for APAC.
• Work with Market Business Specialists and Global Product Leads to drive business outcomes and product adoption goals, while also leading cross-functional projects working with stakeholders.
• Design and operationalize regional activation programs.
• Influence executive product and business leaders and cross-functional teams towards strategies and features that will help accelerate APAC Large Customer Sales (LCS) business growth and eliminate systemic issues acting as roadblocks to product and feature adoption.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in management consulting, business operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital or corporate advisory, or 4 years of experience with an advanced degree.
• Experience with Google Analytics or a related analytics solution and digital attribution.
• Experience with marketing and working with advertisers or agencies.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in collaborating with executives and stakeholder management.
• Experience in designing and delivering cross-functional programs.
• Ability to manage relationships, navigate conflicts, and persuade others.
• Excellent problem solving skills with the ability to navigate ambiguity.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to present issues.

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At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

Join our Core Business Services (CBS) team and you will help support important business enablement functions that keep our organization running strong. As a CBS professional, you will work across teams to provide the knowledge, resources, methodologies and tools that help EY deliver exceptional quality service to our clients, win in the marketplace and support EY’s growth and profitability. Teams within CBS include Finance, Technology, Talent Team, Brand, Marketing and Communications, Business Development and Risk Management.

With a wide choice of experience offerings, you could develop your career through a broad scope of engagements, mentoring and formal learning. That’s how we develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to our stakeholders, and in so doing, play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities. Sound interesting? Well this is just the beginning. Because whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

The opportunity

EY Assurance practice requires a professional who will take responsibility for driving and supporting our Operational Excellence agenda and work to implement various Operations and Finance-related initiatives for Malaysia’s Assurance business, where you will work with Malaysia Assurance Leader and interact across all Assurance Sub-Service Lines Leaders/Group Heads. You will have the opportunity to build relationships, drive initiatives and shape solutions across our local Assurance practice, understand the market and issues, and collaborate with other teams not only within Assurance but beyond.

The position will report directly to Malaysia Assurance Leader and the role would require for the incumbent to have close engagement and collaboration with Service Line support such as Finance, Market Operations, Talent, Resourcing and Quality and Risk Management Teams.

Your key responsibilities

In the role, you will be expected to:

• Review and monitor key financial & performance measures, KPIs (TNR, Margin, Utilisation, Revenue days)
• Provide robust regular performance and dashboard reporting with insightful, timely, forward looking and action oriented commentaries
• Together with Malaysia Assurance Leader, drive the yearly planning process and half-year forecast exercise
• Drive and monitor compliance around key quality areas to meet internal business requirements e.g. milestones review
• Local project lead for Global and Area centralisation initiatives
• Develop and execute other strategic and operational initiatives to drive end to end business performance improvements
• Analyze, articulate and monitor operational performance issues. Investigate anomalies and coordinate with leaders for the information required, escalate issues, assist in providing insight and solutions
• Provide communications support for Malaysia Assurance Leader in drafting key messages for Townhalls, prepare management materials, analysis and narratives for Executive or Regional Leadership meetings and liase with communications functions in EY.

Skills and attributes for success

• Good interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills
• Strong analytical thinking and project management skills
• A team player
• Agile

To qualify for the role you must have

• Bachelor's Degree with at least 5 years of working experience, preferably in Professional Services industry
• Experience in an operations related, business management or control function preferred
• Strong people management skills and able to work/ manage different stakeholders
• Attention to detail and ability to analyze problems, design and implement solutions independently
• A Self-starter. Able to work with limited supervision, to juggle conflicting demands and to prioritize work effectively
• A committed team player with good interpersonal and communication skills, able to articulate clear and logical messages
• Strong organizational skills, able to work across and project manage multiple-initiatives at a time
• Ability to work in cross-functional teams and liaise with colleagues in both business and technical roles
• Good command of written and spoken English.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Advanced Excel & PowerPoint skills – e.g. Pivot, vlook ups and ability to manipulate and draw trends from vast amounts of data
• Data analytics skills such as PowerBI will be preferred

What we look for

A highly-motivated individual with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to manage successful change in a complex environment. An effective communicator and a confident leader equipped with strong people management skills and a genuine passion to make things happen in a dynamic organization. If you’re ready to take on a wide range of responsibilities and are committed to seek out new ways to make a difference, this role is for you.

What we offer

EY offers a competitive remuneration package commensurate with your work experience, where you will be rewarded for your individual and team performance. We are committed to being an inclusive employer and are happy to consider flexible work arrangements (FWA) as needed. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build.

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