Company overview :

Sphere Thoughts has been formed with a passion for market research and consulting by its co-founders. Our main focus would be to help customers with data collection; analysis and reporting which would enable them take effective business decisions and achieve greater heights. Our ideology is to house quality work, high performing resources, and provide great level of customer satisfaction; and truly make the passion for market research and analysis - infectious.

The Role :

- We are looking for a Business Analyst to be part of the delivery team of this market research and Analysis Company. Projects typically deal with market sizing and segmentation, product and concept testing, customer satisfaction and loyalty, advertising testing and effectiveness, industry analysis and knowledge management.

- Qualitative and Quantitative research with a boundary of limited primary data collection and largely secondary data collection based on either social media or search engines.

- As a Business analyst you will be required to understand the domain and help the research analyst in aligning the solution and techniques with the best practices that can provide customer with industry standard decision mechanisms.

- You will also be actively participating in the market research, industry analysis, knowledge management and business development activities.

- This role would be ideal for candidates who are seeking to invest their career on business aspects of market research and analysis industry with a special focus in the fast growing domain of education, tourism, Media and Retail. Aptitude for strategic thinking, research and an attention to detail are essential.

- We follow an employee favor based growth model so that employee has a say in what they want to do in market research as a passion, as we are a company for passion.

Key responsibilities include :

- Act as a point of contact between the customer and technical team for any business/domain oriented clarifications and requirements

- Provide inputs in converting the requirements to technical specifications

- Conducting in-depth data analyses using traditional and advanced methods which includes analyzing the data using statistical software programmes and techniques

- Prepare analysis reports, presentations aligned with the company standard templates

- Based on experience, knowledge and understanding - provide recommendations to customers on various aspects of market/industry analysis and reporting

- Participate in the business development activities of the organization including presentations and other collaterals preparations

Qualifications :

Minimum : 2 : 1 Degree

Preferable : Business, Sales, marketing

Nice to have sector experience : Education, Government/public, Manufacturing and Logistics, Healthcare, IME and RTH

Experience :

- Minimum 2 years previous experience in Business analysis, domain analysis, reporting and business development

- Academic and practical experience with a wide spectrum of business models, business processes, research and reporting

- Basic level knowledge on market research and analysis techniques

Key Techno functional skills :

- Expert level knowledge on MS Excel- VB Macros and scripting, VLOOKUP, PIVOT TABLES, filters and formatting

- MS PowerPoint skills with graphics and formatting in an appealing way

- Business process re-engineering and business process analysis

- Understanding and documentation of customer requirements in the area of data collection, domain based data analysis and reporting

Non technical skills :

- Strong interpersonal and presentation skills, strong meeting skills

- Experience with customer interactions and expectation management

- Organized and efficient

- Ability to generate business based on discussions with customer and manage a healthy and professional relationship

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Location and Travel :

- Base location Bangalore

- Travel opportunities within India currently

- Travel requirement 10-30% for requirements and presentations

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