Cians Analytics - Associate - Business Development

Cians Analytics is a leading provider of advanced analytics, business intelligence and research support for organizations across the globe. Our value proposition lies in our ability to provide insight and deliver revenue-critical research and analysis. We have extensive experience supporting global financial services firms. Cians- management team includes professionals with experience in firms such as: JP Morgan, Lazard, UBS, Goldman Sachs and CSFB.

We provide our clients with comprehensive solutions, backed by a strong reliance on people and technology. Our proprietary processes and practices, allow us to reduce our clients- costs while increasing their capacity to make decisions and generate revenues.

Opportunity:

By working with global clients, Cians provides its employees the opportunity to gain valuable experience and to benchmark themselves against some of the finest institutions in the world. We have a strong performance-driven culture, one that is entrepreneurial and fun to be part of. The typical work profile at this level would include:

- To provide technical/project support to the Sales team

- To discuss, capture and define customer requirements

- Responsible for Pre-sales project management, from capturing and designing requirements to implementation

- Working closely with members of the Research and Support teams

- To identify key revenue-generating opportunities

- To write technical requirement specifications for clients and translate these accurately to the research team for implementation

- Ensure clear adherence to a technical Pre-sales process to ensure optimum leveling and placement of opportunity

- Report to the Sales Director on the Pre-sales process and development, including progress

- Drive Email Marketing campaigns

- Complete any other tasks that may reasonably be required from time to time

Required Background:

- Postgraduate in any discipline (specialization in Marketing preferred)

- Supported senior business development individuals at your prior firm

- Adept at data mining

- Experience in B2B Pre-sales support

- Experience in a B2B customer interface environment

- High level of familiarity with B2B Sales and business development processes

- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

- Comfortable with the Microsoft suite and related IT skills

- Demonstrable experience of basic project management

- Go-getting attitude. We are a young company and need individuals who are willing to go the extra mile to please the customer and to provide exceptional quality work

- Flexible mindset. Our Company is ideal for people who want to build a broad-based skillset and enjoy interacting with team-mates. Roles are likely to be relatively un-structured and everyone, including senior management, get their hands dirty. Self-starters thrive in our environment