Manager/Senior Manager - Market Research - Secondary Research + Competitive Intelligence

Opportunity with One of the Best Companies to work.

Work Location: Hyderabad

Experience: Relevant 8 yrs

Delivery/ Operations

- Provide research and analysis support on companies, industries

- A central capability providing bid-winning, relationship-building market intelligence, and research during the pre-engagement and engagement phases of the client relationship.

Bid, Client Research and Market intelligence:

- Available to a world class standard, within agreed service levels

- Produced efficiently and cost effectively by experts in the UK and EDC

- Allow degree of control by SLs \Internal Clients over EDC team members

- Practitioners- time is released to focus on the account and client outputs

- Work on process-driven research assignments such as company profiling, company Analytical snapshots, quarterly briefing books, competitive intelligence, industry briefings, newsletters, press search, executive profiling etc.

- Conduct exhaustive secondary research across proprietary databases such as Factiva, OneSource, Thomson Research, Bloomberg etc. and presenting outputs in MS PowerPoint/MS Word

- Coordinate with a small team of analysts while working on multiple research projects at any given point of time.

- Help develop key intelligence questions and design a research approach and story board using Mintos/industry specific methodologies to address these questions.

- Review of proposals and presentations to ensure they are visually appealing, impactful and meet the requisite quality standards

- Project and client management

- Liaison with the UK counterparts and clients to scope business research projects and create proposals.

- Demonstrate deep understanding of the strategic business issues and trends in one or more industry sectors.

- Demonstrate very good understanding of the professional services and consulting business.

- Understand the competitive landscape within each industry/market

People Development

- Lead/Oversee development and implementation of the all training programs.

- Career planning and management for their team members

- Recruit and mentor team members on the subject matter/professional services/ research methods etc

Relationship Management

- Work directly with the business line leads on business and resource planning, recruiting strategy, process development and implementation.

- Be responsible for effectively guiding a team of analysts thereby ensuring superior product quality and completion of ongoing projects within stipulated timelines

- Extend ongoing support (or lead) to a business unit strategy initiative around business development, knowledge management, quality, process improvement etc.

The team

The Internal Client Services team at Hyderabad supports the organization in the UK with a wide variety of capabilities like financial reporting, HR and financial transaction processing, administrative service and helpdesk support, marketing and IT services.

Qualifications:

Required

Education: MBA or Master's Degree like MBE/Economics/MFC/MIB

Preferred

NA.

Experience: 9 to 12 years experience in business research preferably in a Management Consultancy firms or KPO set up

Skills:

- Expert level knowledge of Scoping, story boarding, research methodologies

- People and project management skills

- Leadership, coaching and mentoring skills

- Understanding of the Management Consulting environment (preferably, global/UK)

- Ability to gather strategic market intelligence, regular market monitoring, company and competitor intelligence.

- Ability to synthesise qualitative and quantitative data quickly and draw meaningful insights

- Strong creative problem-solving skills

- Strong communication skills with senior leaders and client facing staff

- Flexibility to manage multiple projects in a fast paced environment

- Ability to work independently

- Ability to plan individual market research projects and take ownership of deliverables

- Ability to prioritise and multitask work assignments

- Customer service orientation with focus on tangible outcomes

- Exceptional attention to detail

- Excellent written and oral communication skills

Contact us at - 8861186016