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# Business Strategist at IMC

- **Company:** IMC
- **Location:** Mumbai, India
- **Posted:** 2026-09-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-25
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/imc/jobs/4983674101

## Job description

The Business Strategist is a key hire as IMC India builds out its Business Strategy function to support the office's rapid growth ambitions over the coming years. You will join a small, high-impact team working closely with IMC's India leadership and trading desk leads, and you will report to the Head of Business Strategy and Corporate Development for India. The working environment is collaborative and non-hierarchical, and you will manage a wide range of stakeholders.

Your Core Responsibilities:

- Contribute to and shape definition of strategic priorities to help the India team achieve its growth ambitions over the next years.
- Assess attractiveness of a new opportunities based on opportunity size, competition, and internal capabilities.
- For example: make a business case for trading a new class of products, with cost and benefits analysis and an organizational, legal and compliance set-up.
- Drive real business impact by supporting the execution of the defined strategic priorities
- Help translate the strategy into planning.
- Support execution of specific strategic priorities.
- For example: build annual plans that tie to the long-term strategy with trading, tech and support teams, or develop a joint roadmap for the various teams that trade cryptocurrencies, including taking care of the synergies between the teams.
- Support on specific (ad hoc) strategic problems and opportunities
- Detect and solve ad hoc problems in a solution-oriented way by using analytical skills.
- Help detect (operational) bottlenecks within the organization and apply your problem-solving skills to work towards solutions.
- Run strategy off-sites for teams.
- For example: hold workshop to improve efficiency of central trading processes.
- Gather external insights, asses their implications for IMC strategy and help decide on a response
- Ongoing external engagement: play a pivotal role in corporate development projects relevant to the business (e.g. identify threats, opportunities and actions for IMC, leading acquisitions, establishing partnerships, etc.).
- Develop a perspective on industry trends/developments as well as on the competitive landscape in the secretive field of trading.
- For example: conduct global competitive analyses into the Indian and global equity markets, make a mapping of various players, revenues, FTEs, trading styles and strategies.

Your Skills and Experience:

- Experience at a top-tier consulting firm in strategy, preferably at the manager level or higher
- Outstanding problem solving and people skills
- Master’s degree in Physics, Mathematics or Econometrics
- Ability to deal with organizational complexity and ambiguity
- Capable of dealing with a large scope of and senior stakeholders
- Likes to work in an innovative technology driven fast-paced environment, surrounded by highly educated, ambitious and collaborative colleagues

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## About Us

IMC is a research-driven trading firm where quantitative modeling, machine learning, and engineering shape how modern markets are traded. A stabilizing force in markets since 1989, we provide liquidity across trading venues, delivering the best outcome in value and risk management to investors. Using our own technology and capital, we build proprietary systems and algorithms that operate across global markets. Our researchers, traders, and engineers work as a collective, combining rapid experimentation, advanced infrastructure, and real-time feedback to turn insight into execution and execution into advantage.

## About IMC

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: IMC is a global trading firm that uses cutting-edge technology, quantitative research, and advanced algorithms to provide liquidity across major asset classes and trading venues worldwide.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands (global headquarters); major offices in Chicago, Sydney, Mumbai, and other cities.
- **Founded**: 1989
- **Founders**: Two traders (names not publicly disclosed) who met on the floor of the Amsterdam Equity Options Exchange.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Financial Services, Proprietary Trading, Market Making, Financial Technology
- **Target customers**: Institutional clients, exchanges, ETF issuers, buy-side firms, and other market participants. **B2B** focus.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To be the world’s leading trading firm, supporting fair and transparent markets by providing significant liquidity and competitive pricing. [imc.com](https://www.imc.com/eu/who-we-are)

## Products & Services
- **ETF Market Making**: Acts as a Lead Market Maker (LMM) in more than 150 US exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
- **Options Wholesaling**: A top-3 liquidity provider by volume traded in listed options globally, with connectivity to all OCC venues.
- **Institutional Sales**: Provides off-screen trading for buy-side firms.
- **Crypto Solutions**: Offers global coverage of crypto products including spot, perps, futures, and options, both on- and off-chain.
- **Multi-Asset Class Trading**: Develops innovative technologies and algorithms to trade in all major asset classes on more than 120 venues globally.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Over 2,070 employees across 10 global offices as of 2025/2026. [imc.com](https://www.imc.com/eu/who-we-are)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Privately held; no external investors disclosed. Key partners include major global exchanges and clearing houses (e.g., OCC).
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Employee count grew from +1,900 to +2,070 in recent years.
    - Operates 9,000+ servers across 9 countries and processes petabytes of data daily.
    - Expanding into crypto and new asset classes.
    - Committed to being Net Zero by 2040.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Technology & Infrastructure**: A world-class technology backbone with 9,000+ servers, petabytes of data processing, and early adoption of AI/ML.
- **Longevity & Experience**: 36+ years of trading history and deep expertise across multiple asset classes.
- **Global Scale**: 24/7 liquidity provision across 120+ trading venues in the US, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and India.
- **Talent Density**: A flat, non-hierarchical culture that attracts top quant researchers, engineers, and traders from 70+ nationalities.
- **Culture of Ownership**: Employees are given significant responsibility early on, with a focus on collaboration and cross-functional teamwork.

## Strategic Focus
- **Quantitative Research & Tech**: Continually investing in quant research, AI, machine learning, and large-scale computing to generate alpha.
- **Global Expansion**: Expanding across new markets and asset classes, including crypto.
- **Sustainability**: Committed to being Net Zero by 2040 and making a positive impact through the IMC Foundations, focusing on education.
- **Talent Development**: Investing heavily in graduate and intern training programs (Graduate Traineeship, Launchpad) to build the next generation of talent.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: High-performance, collaborative, and non-hierarchical. 87% of employees say "IMC is a great place to work" (+4% vs global top-10%). [imc.com](https://www.imc.com/us/who-we-are/our-culture-values)
- **Work Environment**: Office-based (no remote policy indicated). Offers free catered breakfast and lunch, snacks, drinks, and Friday socials. Regular team events including an annual weekend trip.
- **Compensation & Benefits**: Competitive compensation with subsidized gym memberships, ergonomic desks, and health/well-being programs.
- **Learning & Development**: Extensive internal and external training programs. Graduates undergo a multi-week Graduate Traineeship (Trading School, Development School, FPGA School).
- **Diversity**: Employees represent 70+ nationalities, with a strong commitment to D&I.
- **Giving Back**: A share of profits is donated to non-profits, with a focus on education. Employees get volunteer time, donation matching, and grants.

## Sources
1. [IMC Homepage](https://www.imc.com/us/)
2. [IMC Careers Page](https://www.imc.com/us/careers)
3. [IMC Who We Are](https://www.imc.com/eu/who-we-are)
4. [IMC Culture & Values](https://www.imc.com/us/who-we-are/our-culture-values)
5. [IMC Recruitment Process](https://www.imc.com/us/careers/recruitment-process)

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