Capital Allocation Optimisation Director

The mandate

This twelve-month commission will create a transparent quantitative framework for allocating finite capital across competing uses under uncertainty and governance constraints. The Director must connect expected value, downside, optionality, timing and risk consumption without pretending that one objective function settles strategic judgment. The project ends at tested decision support and owner transfer.

Named artifacts comprise a decision taxonomy, common cash-flow and risk definitions, uncertainty and dependency method, constraint register, benchmark allocation, optimisation and challenger models, scenario library, explainability report, pilot decision packs and operator handbook. Confidential investments, entities and uses will be represented only after authorised access.

Every pilot must retain rejected alternatives and the reason for rejection, allowing governance to see whether a solution changed because evidence moved or because a constraint was altered after results became visible.

Six milestones apply: scope and definitions by 13 November 2026; data and decision diagnostic by 8 January 2027; baseline and uncertainty method by 5 March; optimisation and challengers by 7 May; three pilot decisions by 9 July; unseen internal reproduction and final acceptance by 10 September. A Capital Governance Committee accepts deliverables after finance, risk and decision-owner review.

Acceptance requires internal analysts to evaluate an unseen allocation case, reproduce the baseline and constrained solution, identify seeded dependency and terminal-value weaknesses, explain sensitivity to risk limits and present alternatives rather than one answer. All critical definition or lineage defects must close.

Management provides approved decision rights, candidate-use data, risk and funding constraints, accounting definitions and timely choices. Consulting owns framework, pilots and knowledge transfer; management owns forecasts, strategy and allocation decisions. Transaction valuation, negotiation, funding execution, platform build and recurring portfolio operation are excluded.

What you will own

• Define comparable value, risk, timing, optionality and capital-consumption measures without erasing genuine differences among uses.
• Establish transparent baseline allocations against which optimisation adds measurable decision value.
• Model uncertainty, dependency and irreversibility through scenarios and ranges rather than single-point inputs.
• Encode funding, risk, governance, sequencing and minimum-commitment constraints with explicit ownership.
• Compare deterministic, robust and stochastic solutions and explain why recommendations diverge.
• Produce pilot packs showing frontier trade-offs, concentration, downside and value of waiting.
• Test internal analysts on an unseen case containing deliberate assumption and dependency flaws.
• Apply change control to valuation, negotiation, execution, platform and recurring operation requests.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate quantitative capital-allocation design across competing uses with non-comparable risk profiles.
• Describe an allocation whose ranking changed after dependency or irreversibility was represented correctly.
• Show how a benchmark exposed little incremental value from a complex optimiser.
• Evidence communication of an efficient frontier or trade-off set without presenting mathematics as strategy.
• Provide an unseen-case acceptance test completed by internal analysts.
• Explain how you preserved executive ownership of assumptions and allocation choices.
• Show fixed-fee discipline when valuation or transaction requests pressed beyond scope.

Working terms and boundaries

• The fee covers twelve months, three days weekly, six milestone packages and three pilot decisions.
• The Capital Governance Committee accepts outputs after unseen-case reproduction and critical-defect closure.
• Management owns forecasts, strategy, constraints and allocations; consulting owns named framework artifacts.
• Delayed inputs or decisions enter written dependency governance before schedule change.
• Valuation opinion, negotiation, funding execution, platform build and recurring operation are excluded.

Application

Applications for this mandate are received in one way only: through the India Board Terminal's application process. It is automated end to end. Your Executive Passport travels to the mandate holder in its confidential form, your answers to the three questions below are read before anything else in your file, and every stage that follows is recorded on your applications page.

There is no address to write to and no intermediary to call. The mandate holder reads what the Terminal delivers and nothing else, which is what keeps the process the same for every applicant and keeps your name out of it until you release it. Applications close on 12 October 2026. Mandate reference QNT-CON-2026-MAD-24.