Business Head - Battery Unit

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India | Experience: Senior / 12–18 years

About the Company

testing_1 is a very small banking-focused company headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. The company operates at an early stage with a compact team, which typically demands focused leadership, clear decision-making, and strong accountability. Its public presence includes a company website and LinkedIn profile, and it is positioned in a regulated industry where disciplined execution and business ownership matter. For this role, the environment suggests a hands-on leadership setup where commercial outcomes, operational rigor, and cross-functional coordination are likely to be essential to success.

About the Role

The Business Head - Battery Unit will own the unit’s commercial performance, market growth, and operating discipline. The role is responsible for translating business strategy into measurable results across revenue, margin, customer relationships, and execution health. This leader will work closely with internal teams and external stakeholders to ensure the battery unit grows sustainably while maintaining strong business controls. The right person will bring a mix of market insight, operational judgment, and team leadership, with the ability to align priorities, remove bottlenecks, and drive accountability across the unit.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the battery unit’s business plan, revenue growth, and profitability targets, ensuring day-to-day decisions stay aligned to long-term commercial outcomes and unit performance.
• Build and manage strategic customer and partner relationships that expand market reach, improve retention, and convert commercial opportunities into repeatable business impact.
• Translate market signals, pricing realities, and competitive movement into actionable plans that improve positioning, pipeline quality, and margin discipline.
• Lead cross-functional execution across sales, operations, finance, and product interfaces so commitments are delivered on time, within scope, and with clear ownership.
• Track unit-level operating metrics, identify performance gaps early, and drive corrective action that improves throughput, service quality, and business predictability.
• Strengthen planning, governance, and review rhythms so the business team has clear priorities, faster decision-making, and stronger accountability across stakeholders.
• Build and mentor a high-performing team, creating role clarity, performance standards, and succession depth that support scale without losing control.

Essential Skills & Technologies

• Strong commercial leadership experience with the ability to convert strategy into revenue, margin, and market-share outcomes in a unit-level business environment.
• Deep understanding of business planning, pricing, pipeline management, and performance tracking, with a practical approach to using metrics for execution control.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and align stakeholders around priorities, trade-offs, and delivery timelines in a fast-moving setting.
• Strong customer management and negotiation capability, especially in situations that require trust-building, problem solving, and long-term relationship ownership.
• Ability to read operating data, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions that improve business performance and reduce execution risk.
• Working knowledge of finance, forecasting, and budget discipline so commercial decisions balance growth, cost control, and profitability.

Additional Plus

• Exposure to battery, energy, manufacturing, industrial, or adjacent technical businesses where commercial leadership must connect with operational execution.
• Experience building a business from an early-stage or scaling environment where structure, process, and discipline had to be created while delivering results.
• Familiarity with regulated or high-accountability industries where stakeholder management, compliance awareness, and decision quality matter deeply.

What You'll Bring

• A strong record of owning business outcomes, not just activities, with clear examples of growth, margin improvement, or unit performance improvement.
• Confident leadership style that creates alignment, urgency, and accountability across teams while keeping the business focused on measurable priorities.
• Commercial judgment paired with operational discipline, so decisions are grounded in market reality, customer needs, and execution capacity.
• Calm, hands-on leadership that can work through ambiguity, build structure, and keep the unit moving with clarity and pace.

Why Join Us

testing_1 offers the chance to lead a focused business unit in an early-stage organization where leadership visibility is high and decisions have immediate impact. The environment is suited to someone who wants ownership, pace, and the opportunity to shape how the unit grows. With a compact team and a Bangalore base, the role can offer close alignment between strategy and execution, along with the satisfaction of building business discipline from the ground up. For a leader who enjoys accountability, commercial problem-solving, and shaping outcomes in a hands-on setting, this is a meaningful opportunity to influence both performance and direction.

What We Offer

• A high-ownership leadership role with direct impact on business growth, profitability, and operating direction.
• A compact team environment where priorities are clear and decisions can move quickly.
• The opportunity to shape unit-level structure, discipline, and performance in an early-stage company.