Forrester - Forecast Researcher

Forecast Researcher, Serving Data Insights Professionals

Job Description:

- A global research and advisory firm, Forrester serves professionals in 13 key roles across three distinct client segments. Our clients face progressively complex business and technology decisions every day. To help them understand, strategize, and act upon opportunities brought by change, Forrester provides proprietary research, consumer and business data, custom consulting, events and online communities, and peer-to-peer executive programs. We guide leaders in the business technology, marketing and strategy, and tech industry through independent fact-based insight, ensuring their business success today and tomorrow.

- The Forecast Researcher is a critical member of Forrester’s ForecastView team. The ForecastView team is engaged in building industry-level global forecasts that provide reliable insights into online, mobile, and emerging technology markets. With ForecastView, companies receive deep, reliable insight into the current size, composition, and future growth opportunities in their markets.

- The Researcher plays a key role for the team across research, client consulting, and internal organization. Qualified candidates must display a strong interest in financial analysis of companies and topics such as consumer behavior and adoption of various technologies and their impact on the development of the market. A track record in market research, survey analysis, or project consulting is extremely helpful. This individual should have a good understanding of market research data as well as data sources such as industry association reports, company financial statements, usage of consumer survey data, and ability to manage projects under time-critical business deadlines. This person should be able to think strategically about market development and the various drivers and inhibitors that impact the general dynamics of a market.

Job Responsibilities:

- Support ForecastView analysts in conducting market research that informs the basis of a market forecast.

- Sift through company financial statements to extrapolate relevant metrics to estimate market size.

- Proactively build and maintain the data assets that further enhance the productivity of ForecastView analysts.

- Analyze consumer survey data and support analysts with the survey data cuts. Knowledge of SPSS is useful but not a requirement.

- Closely monitor the market events and analyze their impact on the Forrester forecasts.

- Support the creating of data client deliverables, such as Excel forecast summaries and PowerPoint presentations.

- Co-develop basic market forecasts, such as the global online population forecast.

- Review marketing and strategy research documents that contain ForecastView data, and subject them to a thorough data-quality check before publication.

- Help with client inquiry support and increasing client engagement of ForecastView data.

- Conduct interviews and evaluations for research and for clients.

- Help team leaders manage day-to-day initiatives, such as client engagements, webinars, and the forecast publishing schedule.

Here’s What You’ll Bring To The Table:

Job Requirements:

Forrester is looking for people who are inspired and inspiring. Our product is our intellectual capital, so we welcome and reward intellectual excellence, curiosity, and sophisticated thinking and look for:

- Three to five years of work experience, preferably in the market research, consulting, or technology field; experience with data analysis, project management, and consumer survey analysis.

- Sharp attention to detail and high personal standards for quality and thoroughness.

- Superior communication skills and an excellent command of the English language.

- The ability to work with a team under tight deadlines and to handle multiple tasks.

- The ability to work independently without needing day-to-day supervision and as part of a global research team.

- A bachelor’s degree (master’s is a plus) with a concentration in marketing, business, or economics (preferable).

Here’s What You’ll Get:

- Exposure to industry experts and to top business leaders within Fortune 1000 companies.

- Access to research that influences global leaders every day.

- World-class learning and development opportunities.

- Global reach: Forrester has research centers and sales offices in more than 25 cities internationally, spanning six continents.

- Colleagues who are intellectually curious, hard-working, and collaborative.

- Fierce Ping-Pong rivalry.

- A competitive benefits package.

- An excellent office location that is on the commuter line near the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in New Delhi.

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