Intellecap - Associate/Senior Associate - Business Consulting & Research

About Intellecap

Founded in 2002, Intellecap Advisory Services Private Limited (Intellecap) is the entrepreneurial ecosystem building arm of the Aavishkaar Group, a pioneer in providing innovative business solutions that help build and scale impact enterprises dedicated to building a more equitable, sustainable and inclusive society. Intellecap & Aavishkaar Group take an ecosystem approach that combines knowledge, capital, technology, and networks, to provide impact entrepreneurs with a continuum of support throughout their life-cycle and to address systemic barriers. We do this by operating at two levels. At the first level, we directly support organizations that invent or create novel solutions with capital, acceleration, fund-raising, technical assistance, innovation transfer, and market linkages. At the second level, we focus on building enabling ecosystems for innovations to scale by engaging with a range of actors such as value chain players, investors, philanthropies, corporations, governments, and intermediaries. We leverage our convening and amplification platform Sankalp to augment our effort to search, seed, support, and scale impact enterprises across sectors. We have worked with more than 300 clients on over 500 consulting and research engagements across multiple geographies. We are a group of 7000 + professionals in offices across India, Kenya, and Indonesia.

Intellecap's Consulting's clientele is global, and the team has delivered diverse projects across Asia and Africa. The team works with:

The team works with:

- Social Enterprise models to help them achieve scale and faster integration with the mainstream through better business planning, market intelligence and process excellence

- Large businesses and corporations to help them engage better with the Bottom of the Pyramid markets

- Private foundations, multilateral and bilateral funders and investors to help them understand, strategize and design interventions for the inclusive business space

Whether a consulting expert, a research analyst, a finance prodigy, or an investment banker, we seek to hire the best across the globe and provide them with a unique global ecosystem of learning, experience, and expertise. Our teams are diverse, entrepreneurial, and fun, comprising millennials and seasoned experts, who are passionate about changing the landscape of social change. The ability to serve the next 3 billion is an opportunity of immense promise, and we look at those who are entrepreneurial in their mindset, sharp in their thinking, and bring in deep sector expertise to deliver compelling work globally.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

- Manage projects with independent thinking and guide 2-3 member teams comprising associates independently

- Understand client requirements, develop scope, approach & methodology, delivery schedule with the ability to clearly define costing

- Lead project execution, team discussions, and guide team to drive successful execution in line with identified approach data from primary and secondary sources, guide research and analysis as required.

- Undertake detailed financial and technical analysis where required, including complete business planning and financial modelling

- Deliver client presentations and manage client expectations

- Engage with senior experts internally and externally on aspects related to the project

- Support business development through proposal development and new clients reach out

- Straddle multiple roles that include project delivery, client relationship management, team building and mentorship, and business development;

- Be part of the team that contributes towards developing the domestic and global strategy for the consulting practice at Intellecap.

- Undertake relevant national and international field travel and exposure as and when required.

Qualifications & Experience Requirements :

- Degree/Masters or equivalent from reputed institutes in India/abroad

- Minimum of 2-6 years of experience in management and business consulting

Essential Skills :

- Strong problem solving and analytical skills, both quantitative and qualitative;

- Exposure to business plan creation and building a business model would be desirable;

- Ability to synthesize information and assist in creating insightful recommendations for clients

- Excellent communication, presentation, and writing skills

- Excellent client and team management skills, and commitment;

- Prior exposure to domains in which Intellecap works is desirable;

- Base of the Pyramid/Social Entrepreneurship/Inclusive Business in Asia/Africa

- Financial services/energy/climate /agriculture, and sanitation/health.