Research & Analytics Role

Job Overview:

You would 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.

Primary Responsibilities:

Project Delivery:

- Working 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:

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

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

c) 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

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

- 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