Job Description
Responsibilities & Key Deliverables
The role involves supporting the Senior General Manager (Group Public Affairs) in driving Mahindra Group's strategic engagement & partnerships across sectors by driving governmental relations, policy outreach, and fostering partnerships with key Government Ministries, Departments, Trade, Industry Chambers and Associations. Be the Mahindra Group representative in the state Government & external stakeholder ecosystem. Aim is to enhance, identify & drive market access, support business expansion, promote policy advocacy, and ensure operational synergy across various Group companies.
Responsibilities & Key Deliverables
Establish a supportive external environment, which enables the Group to implement its Corporate and competitive strategies and pursue its business interests through developing and nurturing effective relationships with the target audience. Ensure timely access to ecosystem intelligence - new legislation, policy changes etc. both on a proactive and need basis Each of the individuals takes Group-wide responsibility across all sectors and businesses of the Group (except Auto) for the following:
- Relationship building, management and nurturing:
- Map and maintain access to key decision-makers with State governments, political parties and industry bodies.
- Nurture high-level relationships with senior bureaucrats, ministers, and diplomatic missions to ensure Mahindra remains a preferred partner.
- Represent the group at critical forums to ensure our state interests are platformed and protected.
- Critical problem solving and issue resolution
- Leverage local networks to resolve high value regulatory issues and bottlenecks.
- Identify and secure opportunities created by policy and regulation.
- Policy Monitoring
- Monitor legislative and regulatory developments within States to provide businesses with up-to-date market intelligence on policy developments and evolution of govt thinking.
- Deliver actionable updates and anticipate policy shifts, allowing businesses to adapt proactively rather than reactively.
- Policy Advocacy and Thought Leadership
- Execute disciplined advocacy and negotiation with key state stakeholders to build momentum for our policy recommendations.
- Clearly demonstrate how Mahindra’s business objectives support state policy goals.
- Develop policy recommendations that effectively demonstrate our expertise on policy issues within our sectors, enhancing our reputation as experts for inputs into policy formulation.
- Issue mitigation and crisis management
- Provide counsel, resources and in-roads to navigate crisis and difficult situations.