GD Research Center - Associate Project Manager - Pricing Intelligence - Retail/CPG Sector

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

Deliver Robust Market Intelligence products :

- The candidate should be aware about the Online Pricing Intelligence solution, with a clear understanding of how the daily pricing dynamics affects different brands across different retailers globally. We track SKU/variant item-level prices for millions of products across multiple countries, currencies and languages on a daily basis. The project needs to track how prices are changing, by how much, how frequently and when, across varied product sectors.

- The candidate should contribute significantly to a high quality stream of research output in the form of data, analysis, and reports. Use all the tools and knowledge at your disposal to produce analysis that goes beyond the descriptive to offer valuable customer insight for our clients - both retailers and manufacturers.

Team Management :

- Manage team of Research Analysts in the production of content - both Data & reports. Train these analysts in market analysis, forecasting, data presentation and analysis and monitor their performance such that they produce good quality products across our product offerings.

Develop industry expertise : Develop expertise within the area of Retail/Consumer Sector. Pick and track trends in the sector, build deep insight into the consumer trends and competitive landscape for leading consumer markets. Maintain and provide timely responses to market issues and offer up to date opinions. Demonstrate expertise in a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures. Should be able to infer meaningful interpretations to the retail pricing strategy.

Master communication skills :

- Through research and consulting assignments, develop written and oral communication skills. Hone writing skills to be precise and efficient, minimizing the length of research documents while maximizing the value to clients.

Provide effective client support :

- Begin to build client relationships and understand client objectives and needs. Support our clients with timely and high-value analyst support. Provide content and knowledge support to the sales and marketing teams. Support our sales channel partners to add credibility to the sale.

Build strategic involvement :

- Offer insight in your area of expertise to team planning meetings. In conjunction with your Group Head, contribute to the direction of the team, particularly with regards to new data-driven analytical products. Develop a client-centric point of view with regards to ideas for future new products and services. Present report to management for use in decision making and strategic planning. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.

CORE SKILLS REQUIRED :

- Bachelor's/Master's degree in economics, computer science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, or similar quantitative field

- Working knowledge about the design, implementation and maintenance of crawling libraries, and information extraction.

- Awareness about how to measure and improve the online performance of leading CPG brands in areas such as product content, pricing, search rankings, and product reviews.

- Experience with data visualization, reporting, dashboarding, and presentation skills

- Data management/information retrieval research, especially semantics extraction from large-scale information spaces such as the Web, wikis, blogs

Domain expertise - Retail strategy, ecommerce strategy, digital marketing, consumer direct models, social media, mobile commerce, web information retrieval, Information management and extraction, and competitive intelligence.

- Minimum three years of experience working at Analyst/Senior analyst level dealing with data analysis and visualization

- Highly proficient analytical skills; Attention to detail and accuracy.

- Identify and adopt best practices in reporting and analysis: data integrity, quality checks, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation.

- Excellent written and oral communication skills.

- Organizational skills including time management, project planning and tracking.

Salary offered: 8 - 12 LPA