Group Chief Strategy Officer

Contract/Temp

Business, Marketing, and Corporate Strategies & Plans

• Ideate, develop, enhance, implement, and maintain FGV Group’s strategic blueprint and high-level business plan across all business divisions.
• Lead market research and industry intelligence, including economic and market outlook, industry outlook, product and business life cycle, and business intelligence including marketing strategy and plan for all businesses.
• Provide consultation and advisory work for all business units on investments, divestments, corporate finance, investor relations, and strategy and business plan development matters.
• Build and maintain long term relationships with industry players for existing and potential future strategic collaborations.
• Design, implement, and monitor the group’s corporate KPIs.

Business Development (incl. New Product Development), Corporate Finance (incl. Investments & Divestments), and Value Management

• Ideate, evaluate, and execute new business growth opportunities, investments and divestments, aligned with Strategic Blueprint.
• Negotiate with potential equity partners, business associates, and various other parties throughout the whole investment and divestment process.
• Lead all corporate exercises within the group including matters relating to Bursa, SC, and other regulatory bodies.
• Design and build financial models, and various other financial evaluation and feasibility studies.
• Oversee overall due diligence exercises and feasibility studies.
• Build and maintain long term relationships with various financial, legal, and business advisors to support various corporate exercises implemented by the group.
• Build network of contract manufacturers and contract farmers to ensure sustainability of supply of raw materials and explore product enhancement and cost optimisation opportunities.
• Establish, monitor, and report performance of projects including post investment and divestment activities, strategic and business development initiatives and its implementation.
• Analyse equity and operational structures and shareholdings dynamics in the context of maximizing shareholders' value.
• Execute business development activities for business growth purposes for the whole group by leveraging on networking strength locally and at an international level.

Strategic Thinking & New Product Development Incubator

• Develop internal entrepreneurship talent pool by developing new products from ideation to commercialisation.
• Strengthen strategy talent pool to be well equipped in areas of Strategic Thinking, Investments, and Corporate Finance.
• Enhance group's capabilities in corporate finance and investments, financial modelling, and various other financial evaluation tools and feasibility study techniques.
• Enhance talent pool's thought process, negotiation and structuring capabilities, writing skills, and quality of proposals.

Special P&C Projects and Advisory

• Support Group CEO on highly confidential and strategic matters, such as leading and executing all highly confidential projects, proposals, and corporate exercises which may involve government-to-government (“G2G”) or government-linked to government-linked / non-government linked companies from various other nations which would have long-term macroeconomic impact to Malaysia as a whole.
• Enhance and maintain the standards of the group’s proposal papers, and advise on proposal papers' thought process, structure, and approach.
• Oversee accuracy of financial models developed by financial modellers across the group.

Investor Relations (“IR”)

• Engage and manage key stakeholders, analysts, financial media, fund managers, and government bodies (e.g. PM Office, MOF, MAFS, MOE, and FELDA) on performance and strategies.
• Drive IR activities including Annual Integrated Report (AIR), quarterly results, AGM, EGM, compile market feedback, and respond to key news.
• Participate in investment events, corporate days, investor visits, and roadshows.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or professional qualification in Accounting, Finance, Mathematics, Economics, Islamic Finance, Actuarial Science, Engineering, or a related field; a Master’s degree is a plus.
• Extensive experience in business strategy, management, corporate finance, or consultancy, preferably across multiple industries.
• Strong analytical skills with a solid understanding of market dynamics and operational strategies.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively influence and engage stakeholders at all levels.
• Proven ability to think strategically and execute plans while being adaptable to changing business environments.