Position : Associate Director

Reporting into: VP

Location : Mumbai/ Bangalore

Team Size: 8-12

Require Travel : Yes

Job type: Non Individual Contributor

Business : CPG/Retail

Band : P5

Education Qualifications : MBA or advanced degree in a quantitative discipline is required or BE or Masters

Experience: 7+ years of experience in CPG and retail

Role and Responsibility :

- He/She will play a vital role in leading and managing consulting and analytics engagements and teams. He/She will maintain and develop client relationships as required.

- He/She will manage analysts and prioritize objectives in order to achieve the highest levels of client satisfaction and targeted financial results.

Other responsibilities include :

- Understand client's business questions and be able to develop solution architecture.

- Make sure that all project deliverables are completed on schedule and in accordance with client's needs and expectations.

- Lead client engagements and assignments to ensure appropriate resource utilization, resource utilization, and quality assurance.

- Provide guidance to junior analysts for solving problems, developing analytical strategies, and helping them apply analytical techniques and frameworks.

- Ensure that all deliverables meet client expectations, and meet all compliance and regulatory requirements

- Define standard metrics and KPIs for clients and establish processes to measure them

- Recruit, train, develop and coach talent.

- Generate insights and present findings and deliverable to client that meets business requirements.

Attributes and Skills :

- Knowledge of variety and advanced analytic and research approaches, including: marketing mix models, price/promotion models, SEM, segmentation and forecasting

- Ability to independently manage research engagements from start to finish, delivering actionable insight within established timelines and budget

- Experience in marketing research or analytics is a strong plus

- Experience working in a consultative capacity (internal or external) is a strong plus

- Strong analytical thinking skills. Ability to creatively solve business problems, innovating new approaches where required.

- Ability to interpret research findings for multiple audiences, extract insights and communicate effectively

- Experience interfacing with clients or high-level executives

- Outstanding oral and written communication skills

- Must have excellent project management skills and have experience managing multiple work streams and projects at one time

- Must have the ability to adapt to changing business priorities in a fast paced business environment

- Needs to be a thought leader and question and push boundaries

- Must have curiosity and love to ask the question 'why'

Other requirements :

- MBA or advanced degree in a quantitative discipline is required.

- 7+ years of experience in business consulting with an emphasis in the CPG.

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