Associate Manager - Business Research & Consulting - IIM/XLRI/FMS/MDI

Candidate profile

- MBA from leading Indian B-Schools (preferably IIMs or similar institutes)

- 4+ years of experience in Business Research & Consulting with at least 1 years in managing juniors.

- Extensive experience in conducting in-depth primary and secondary research

- Ability to perform incisive qualitative and quantitative analysis

- Strong project management skills and client relationship management skills

- Ability to inspire team members during crisis situations

- Workflow management skills- managing multiple projects & deliverables simultaneously, raising flags for both underutilization and overutilization etc.

- High proficiency in research databases such as Bloomberg, DialogPro, OneSource, Factiva etc.

- Strong business acumen- should be able to correlate market drivers, challenges with impact on client or target companies, should be able to evaluate business risks etc.

- Passionate towards work with an ability to see opportunities to improve the firm and ensure successful implementation of suggestions

- Impeccable verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities - 

- Responsible for executing & delivering high quality business research solutions to global clients and managing research teams. This includes understanding project specifications, overseeing deliverable preparation and extensive client engagement.

- Business development by continuous up-sell and cross sell of services to existing client base

- Take ownership of industry/set of clients

- Responsible for professional development, coaching and evaluation of their assigned team members.

- Firm-level responsibilities which can include, knowledge management, training, recruitment & selection, new product development, internal process development, expanding business capabilities and leading other organization improvement practices