Boston Analytics - Associate Senior Consultant - Strategy Consulting - Water/Auto/Ancillary/Steel Sector - IIM/MDI/FMS

Job Description - Associate Senior Consultant, Strategy Consulting,

Mandatory : Only from Tier 1 colleges.

Only from Water, Auto, Ancillary and Steel Industry.

About Boston Analytics (BA):

- Headquartered in Boston, US, Boston Analytics are 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, Consumer Goods & Healthcare, and Diversified Industrials, which are our key practice areas.

- Our engagements range from corporate strategy to market attractiveness, market sizing studies to industry white papers. 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. Consumer Goods, Healthcare & Diversified Industrials are together referred to as our Growth Practice.

This opening is for our office in Gurgaon, India.

Job Objective :

Collaborate with senior consultants/engagement managers and practice heads to provide data-driven and analysis-rich research deliverables driving strategic insights as per the client requirements. Associate Senior Consultants are also required to assist in 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 an individual contributor and could also have responsibilities for end-to-end delivery of project modules. You will be working closely with your project teams 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 :

- Support managers and practice heads with understanding the client requirements, problem definition, designing the project approach, recommendations, etc.

- Demonstrate in-depth understanding of the practice area (CPG & Industrial); gravitate towards providing thought leadership internally as well as to clients

- Conduct extensive primary and/or secondary research

- Analyse data to extract insights and identify patterns (qualitative as well as qualitative)

- Develop proxies and triangulations for difficult-to-get data points such as revenue forecast data, market size numbers for niche industry segments, etc.

- Analyse findings for relevant trends, patterns, and insights and apply them to help the team arrive at solutions/ recommendations

- Interact seamlessly with team members to ensure we deliver high-quality strategy consulting assignments that exceed client expectations

- Take complete ownership of the modules assigned as well as guide analysts/ associate consultants/ consultants on research and analysis techniques and review deliverables (as applicable)

- Produce output in the form of Power Point, Excel, Word, etc, in a near final state

- Manage vendor relationships and undertake business development activities by preparing project/work proposals, capability decks, etc.

- 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 white papers and capability decks

Required Skills & Personal Attributes :

- Excellent business writing and verbal communication skills including presentation skills

- Detail-oriented with high standards for written and visual presentation of information

- Excellent research, analytical, and numerical skills

- Logical thought process to think through a problem and develop solutions

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

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

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

- 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