Head of Strategy
Bosch · Posted Oct 6
Mobility, industrial technology, consumer goods, and energy and building technology services
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About the role
SDS.AI is a technology services, engineering, AI, and digital business within Bosch Group, and this role owns its corporate strategy agenda. The position drives ecosystem leverage and enterprise-wide strategic initiatives covering corporate strategy and growth planning, portfolio and competitive intelligence, transformation programs, and stakeholder management. The Head of Strategy provides the fact base, strategic choices, and execution discipline required to align leadership around a clear growth agenda and convert it into measurable outcomes.
What you will do
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 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.
- 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.
- Any Engineering, Post Graduate
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Bosch
The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services, operating across mobility, industrial technology, consumer goods, and energy and building technology sectors. Driven by its purpose to create technology that is "Invented for life," the company leverages its expertise in hardware, software, and IoT to shape global trends such as automation, electrification, and artificial intelligence.
- Industry
- Automotive
- Company size
- 406225 employees
- Founded
- 1886
- Location
- Stuttgart, Germany
- Funding stage
- Private Company
Leadership
Chairman of the Board of Management
Deputy Chairman and Chief Financial Officer
Markus Heyn
Deputy Chairman and Chairman of Mobility
Frank Meyer
Member of the Board of Management
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