The Lead – MD & CEO Office role exists to strengthen the CEO Office’s ability to serve the MD & CEO with clarity, foresight, and execution control. The role ensures that the CEO always knows:

· What needs immediate attention · Why it matters to the business · What must be done · Who will do it and by when

How This Role Strengthens the MD Office · Converts complexity into CEO-ready insight, not raw information · Treats the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) as the single source of truth and enforces performance discipline · Eliminates blind spots, surprises, and narrative bias · Drives enterprise-wide accountability and closure without adding bureaucracy · Enables the CEO to operate at the right altitude—strategic where needed, tactical where unavoidable

Key Responsibilities 1. CEO Intelligence, Synthesis & Decision Support · Serve as the central intelligence layer of the CEO Office, synthesizing inputs from all business units and functions. · Present crisp, fact-based, and unbiased perspectives to the CEO, cutting through noise and optimism bias.



· Translate complex business situations into transparent choices, implications, and recommended actions. · Ensure the CEO has advance visibility into emerging risks, execution slippages, and strategic trade-offs.

2. Annual Operating Plan (AOP) Ownership & Performance Discipline · Treat the Annual Operating Plan as gospel truth and anchor all performance conversations against it. · Continuously track actuals vs AOP across businesses, products, functions, and key metrics. · Identify anomalies, deviations, and early warning signals—both positive and negative. · Conduct and coordinate root-cause analyses for material variances, separating structural issues from execution gaps. · Where possible, suggest corrective actions, trade-offs, or decision options for the CEO. · Ensure that AOP deviations are explicitly acknowledged, owned, and addressed—not explained away.

3. CEO Agenda & Priority Enablement · Support the CEO Office in structuri

📌 Advisor to Chief Executive Officer (Mumbai)
🏢 Hero FinCorp
📍 Mumbai