AVP – Business Planning Office

Date: May 16, 2025

Location: Gurugram, HR, IN

Company: maxlifeins

 

Function Summary

  • Lead Axis Channel Business Planning and Employee Success for growth and transformation.
  • Drive thought leadership and business transformation in Open Architecture with Axis Bank.
  • Foster cross-functional collaboration and cost optimization.
  • Institutionalize business intelligence and analytics for deeper insights and promote business excellence

 

 

 

Job Summary

  • Business Planning: Develop long-term strategies, prepare business forecasts, conduct market analysis, and monitor business performance.
  • Performance Management System (PMS): Establish performance goals, create development plans, and track KPIs.
  • Hierarchy Management System: Design organizational structures, define roles, implement succession plans.
  • Product Mix Council: Develop and oversee the product mix strategy to ensure a balanced and competitive portfolio, collaborate on product deployment, and monitor product performance.
  • Sales Governance and Channel Support: Ensure field governance and engage with stakeholders.

 

 

Key Responsibilities

 

Business Planning

  • Strategic Planning: Developing and implementing long-term business strategies and annual operating plan to achieve company goals and objectives.
  • Financial Forecasting: Overseeing business forecasting to ensure targets are met. Develop and build controls across key business measures.
  • Market Analysis: Conducting market research to identify trends, opportunities, and competitive threats.
  • Performance Monitoring: Tracking and analysing business performance metrics to inform decision-making
  • Benchmarking of competition practices in the Bank Open Architecture counter and build our practices to win the Lions share
  • Collaborate across functions including Finance, Products, Operations, Training, Marketing, BPMA, etc

 

Performance Management System (PMS)

  • Conceptualize, design and implement all the levers of Performance Management System including the compensation strategy, KRAs, Reward and Recognition framework
  • Goal Setting: Establishing clear performance goals and objectives for employees aligned with the company's strategic goals.
  • Performance Metrics: Defining and tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure employee performance

 

Hierarchy Management System

  • Organizational Structure: Designing / maintaining an effective structure to support business.
  • Role Definition: Clearly defining roles and responsibilities at all levels.
  • Succession Planning: Developing and implementing succession plans along with HR to ensure leadership continuity.
  • System Management: Working with Business and Technology teams to define and manage the hierarchy in system.

 

Product Mix Council

  • Product Strategy: Developing and overseeing the product mix strategy to ensure a balanced and competitive portfolio.
  • Product Deployment: Collaborating with product teams to launch new insurance products / new variants / revisions.
  • Performance Monitoring: Regularly reviewing the performance of existing products and adjusting as needed

 

Sales Governance and Channel Support

  • Create and enforce sales / business policies
  • Ensure regulatory compliance
  • Track performance metrics

 

 

 

Key Competencies / skill required

 

  • Strategic thinking and analytical skills
  • Ability to understand big picture
  • Sound knowledge of Bancassurance or Banking operations model
  • Very strong communication skills: Ability to express ideas clearly and persuasively
  • Planning and Organization: Effectiveness in planning and organizing activities of himself/herself and team members
  • Intra Organization skills: Ability to work together with all stakeholders involved, flexibility in taking feedback and modifying approach

 

 

 

 

Desired qualification and experience

  • Management graduate / post-graduate with 6-8 years of experience
  • Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in the BFSI / preferably life insurance industry and relevant experience (preferable)