Strategy & Partnership Manager

The Strategy & Partnerships Manager will serve as a key partner to the SVP Strategy, Partnerships and Investments in driving high-priority strategic initiatives and partnership efforts across the organization.

The role will sit at the intersection of strategy formulation and execution, ensuring that strategic priorities translate into measurable outcomes. The individual will act as an execution owner and thought partner, driving initiatives from problem definition through implementation while aligning multiple stakeholders across functions.

This role is designed for someone capable of bringing structure to ambiguity, driving accountability across teams, and independently managing complex workstreams with minimal oversight. The role is highly cross-functional requiring rapid context switching, curiosity to learn/problem solve relentlessly and work with a founder-like mentality.

Role Concept

The Strategy & Partnership Manager will be responsible for delivering impact across below core pillars:

Own and drive key strategic initiatives designed to improve business performance, operational effectiveness, and organizational scale.

Expected responsibilities

• Translate leadership priorities into structured programs and executable workstreams
• Develop implementation plans with milestones, ownership structures, and KPIs
• Lead project management across Partnership initiatives
• Identify operational bottlenecks and propose process improvements
• Establish governance mechanisms to monitor progress and drive accountability
• Track initiative performance against expected business outcomes
• Escalate risks and recommend corrective actions where required

Outcomes

• Strategic initiatives are executed within defined timelines
• Cross-functional alignment is maintained
• Measurable business impact is delivered
• Leadership has visibility into initiative status and risks

Support the identification, evaluation, and scaling of new ventures and growth opportunities.

Expected responsibilities

• Conduct market landscape assessments and opportunity analyses
• Support ideation and validation of new business concepts
• Develop business cases and growth models
• Support investment due diligence and strategic assessments
• Work alongside venture teams to operationalize new initiatives and monitor progress

2. Executive Problem Solving & Cross-Functional Leadership

Act as an extension of the Strategy function by leading initiatives that require coordination across multiple teams and stakeholders.

Expected responsibilities

• Manage cross-functional stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Finance, Operations, HR, and business teams
• Facilitate decision-making and alignment discussions
• Drive resolution of execution blockers
• Prepare executive-level materials including presentations, analyses, and strategic recommendations
• Lead special projects and high-priority initiatives as needed

Expected outcomes

• Stakeholders remain aligned against common objectives
• Decisions are made efficiently
• Execution velocity increases across initiatives

3. Partnership Management

• Support the end to end identification, outreach, engagement, follow up, drafting and execution of partnership.
• Partnerships for driving value across Disrupts venture building activities and ventures independently
• Diligence on Platforms
• Hyper scalers such as AWS for consolidation/cost efficiency and credit delivery to startups/ventures
• Venture capital funds and ecosystem enablers
• Find founders to build with Disrupt
• Support distribution efforts and strategic partnerships for market expansion

Operating Model

The Strategy & Partnership Manager will operate with:

• High autonomy

Expected to independently own workstreams and drive outcomes with minimal supervision.

• High ambiguity tolerance

Expected to create structures where processes or solutions do not yet exist.

• High stakeholder exposure

Regular interaction with leadership teams and cross-functional business leaders.

• High accountability

Measured on business impact and execution effectiveness rather than activity completion.

• High agency and ownership

Measured on business impact and execution effectiveness rather than activity completion.

Candidate Profile

Experience

• 3–8 years of experience in:
• Management consulting
• Strategy and Partnership
• Venture capital
• Startup operations
• Corporate strategy
• Business operations

Capabilities

• Strong quantitative and analytical skills
• Financial modeling and business case development experience
• Exceptional structured problem-solving ability
• Strong communication and executive presence
• Strong relationship management and writing skills
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
• Experience leading initiatives without formal authority