The Role

We are looking for a high-calibre Chief of Staff to work closely with our leadership team on the company's 3–5-year strategic direction, portfolio choices, and recent business opportunities.

This role sits at the intersection of corporate strategy, portfolio management, market intelligence, and the CEO and leadership office. You will help answer the most important questions we face where to play, how to win, where to invest, and where to exit or scale. You will bring to that work the same rigour and care that our watchmakers bring to theirs.

Your Craft: What You Will Own

1. Strategy and long-term direction

- Shape and drive the 3–5-year strategic roadmap in partnership with the leadership team.
- Develop strategic perspectives on how our key businesses and categories will evolve and grow.
- Evaluate strategic choices across Watches, High Jewellery, Lifestyle, Hour Studio and new formats, and Jewellery and adjacent or new businesses.
- Translate strategic ambition into clear priorities, initiatives, milestones, and business plans.

2. Market and competitive intelligence

- Establish a robust market intelligence and competitor-tracking framework.
- Track emerging trends, consumer shifts, category developments, competitive moves, and disruptive business models.
- Develop regular strategic insights and alerts for the leadership team.
- Benchmark the organisation against leading global and Indian players.

3. Strategic projects and the CEO / leadership office

- Lead high-priority, cross-functional strategic projects on behalf of the leadership team.
- Structure ambiguous problems, develop hypotheses, run the analysis, and drive recommendations through to execution.
- Prepare strategy papers, board and leadership presentations, and decision memos.




- Act as a thought partner to senior leadership on critical business questions.
- Make sure strategic decisions turn into clear ownership and follow-through.

4. Annual strategy and planning cadence

- Own the annual strategy calendar: strategic reviews, portfolio reviews, market and competitor reviews, annual operating and strategic planning, leadership offsites, and strategic initiative reviews.
- Build a disciplined cadence for tracking strategic priorities and outcomes.

Your Passion: Who You Are

Experience

- You have 10 years of overall professional experience (post-MBA) and an MBA or PGDM from a top B-school.
- You have significant experience in top-tier management consulting (strongly preferred).
- Experience in corporate strategy, portfolio strategy, consumer or luxury businesses, or CEO and strategy offices is highly relevant.
- Experience managing complex, multi-business or multi-category environments is a strong advantage.

Core competencies

- You think strategically and solve problems exceptionally well.
- You have strong commercial and financial acumen.
- You navigate ambiguity and turn complex analysis into clear decisions.
- You are an excellent analyst, researcher, and synthesiser.
- You communicate well with executives and write sharp strategy papers and PowerPoint decks.
- You influence senior stakeholders without relying on formal authority.
- You bring high ownership, intellectual curiosity, and a bias for action. You love the work, and you keep learning.
- You are equally at home at 2,000-foot strategic altitude and in ground-level execution.

What Makes This Role Different At Ethos, passion is where it starts and mastery is how you grow. You will sit beside the CEO and leadership team on the questions that shape the future of our businesses.

# Bring your passion. Master your craft.

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