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09/12 HR
Senior Executive HR at Boston Analytics

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Boston Analytics - Associate Sr Consultant/Sr Consultant - Strategy Consulting (4-8 yrs)

Delhi/NCR/Gurgaon Job Code: 402447

About Boston Analytics (BA) :

- Headquartered in Boston, US, Boston Analytics is a strategy consulting and a big data & analytics focused firm. We bring together the best analytical minds worldwide, deliver a robust offering of knowledge services, and work as genuine partners in enhancing and implementing our clients- growth strategies.

- Our clients vary from Fortune 500 companies to private equity to government entities.

- We are trusted advisors to our clients and work closely with them on a range of strategy engagements across geographies and industries.

- Over the past few years, BA has developed a strong expertise in Financial Services, Technology, and Diversified Industrials, which are our key practice areas.

- Our engagements range from corporate strategy to market attractiveness, market sizing studies to industry whitepapers.

- We use a combination of secondary research, primary research and analytical tools & techniques to provide fact-based, insightful analysis to our clients that help them build and execute their growth initiatives.

- This opening is for our office in Gurgaon, India.

Job Objective :

- As a Senior Consultant you will be closely working with the Management Team for practice development, project delivery in the Industrial industries domain, Solutioning and POC (proof of concept) development.

- You will need to work with the project team to provide data-driven and analysis-rich deliverables deriving strategic insights as per the client requirements.

- Senior Consultants are also expected to assist with business development activities and provide thought leadership. Possess subject matter knowledge to lend additional credibility and add value at all stages and levels.

Job Overview :

- You would typically be working on multiple projects and responsible for end-to-end project delivery.

- You will be working closely with your project teams to guide them to conduct in-depth secondary research and primary research, apply analysis techniques and derive interesting and meaningful insights for our clients.

You may be required to travel within India/ overseas (typically emerging markets) for client meetings/ primary research.

Primary Responsibilities :

Project Delivery :

- Senior Consultants would be typically working with EM/SEM for Project Delivery and in some cases deliver projects end to end.

- Manage projects from first contact to final delivery and ensure adherence to scope, timelines, budgets, quality standards, and risk management to ensure customer delight

- Demonstrate in-depth understanding of the practice area (technology); provide thought leadership internally as well as to clients, including overall guidance, mentoring and supervision to the team

- Coach team with respect to conducting primary and/or secondary research and validate findings of team members

- Review project plans as well as deliverables and validate insights and strategic recommendations by the teams.

Ensure the teams are :

- Validating the data obtained, and analysing it to extract insights and identify patterns (qualitative as well as qualitative)

- Developing proxies and triangulations for difficult-to-get data points

- Identifying trends, patterns and insights and applying them to arrive at solutions/ recommendations

- Over-manage client communication process (as applicable) including understanding requirements, expectation management and delivering quality outputs.

- Manage research partner relationships (as applicable).

Business Development and Solutions :

- Contribute to the business development process, support sales teams in closing deals by participating in client calls and pitching solutions

- Design solutions based on client's requirements; define engagement structure including resource requirements, project travel, effort estimates and proposal pricing strategies

- Develop proof of concept of the solution (if required)

Practice and Organizational Development :

- Work with Senior Management Teams to achieve practice's vision and mission

- Assist in development and building of the practice team

- Collaborate with senior management in development and enhancement of knowledge nuggets and thought pieces, methodologies and frameworks, website content development, etc. Also build sales collaterals such as whitepapers and capability decks

People Management :

- Lead and motivate all resources in the team, help them in coaching and skill sets buildings, including practice specific training and development initiatives.

Required Skills & Personal Attributes :

- Excellent business writing and verbal communication skills including presentation skills

- Extremely detail-oriented with high standards for written and visual presentation of information as well as idea

- Excellent research, analytical, and numerical skills

- Ability to develop and articulate strategic recommendations based on rigorous data analysis

- Ability to partner with BD teams to understand client problems and marketing strategies; should have Business Development acumen and ability to identify Business Development opportunities

- High degree of proficiency in MS Office Suite (PowerPoint, Word, Excel etc.)

- Strong inter-personal skills, ability to work with teams in a time-line driven high pressure environment (typical of consulting firms)

- Should be hands-on with exceptional execution/delivery capabilities

- Process orientation and high level of comfort with usage as well as customization of Technology tools

- The candidate should be able to work on client engagements at CXO as well as lower levels

- Self-driven with a high level of motivation and energy; a strong - can do- attitude; ability and willingness to work in a small and fast growing set-up

- Ability to pro-actively identify ways to contribute to firms goals & mission

- International experience will be an added advantage

- Professional appearance as well as manner of speaking

Preferred Experience :

- Experience in Industrial sectors in a Strategy Consulting role or a Corporate strategy role with leading Industrial firms

- Experience, deep understanding and thought leadership across 2-3 of the following industries - Chemicals, Aerospace & Defence, Construction & Engineering, Automotive, etc.

- Excellent understanding of the operations of large global firms as well as small & mid-sized organizations

Educational Background :

- Bachelor's degree (Engineering/ Commerce/ Economics) from a top-tier university (such as IITs, NITs, DU, etc.); And an MBA from one of the top institutions in India / abroad

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