PGA Labs - Associate Manager/Project Manager

About the role:

The position of Associate Manager (AM) / Project Manager (PM) is in the PGA Labs business unit of Praxis. This position reports to the Group Manager (or equivalent). The primary role of this position is to project manage PGA Labs projects.

As an AM / PM, you will be required to lead the project management end to end. AM typically leads 3+ projects at a time and a PM leads 4-5 projects at a time.

Key Responsibilities:

- Project management

- Ownership of entire project report and output

- Ownership of analysis on excel and be comfortable with handling data to derive meaningful insights

- Managing entire project life cycle scoping, problem structuring / hypotheses definition, research analysis, presentation storyboarding, delivery communication, project closure, knowledge management.

- Work collaboratively with PGA Labs Analysts, Research Associates and cross-functional data science and technology teams.

- Mentoring and guiding fellow team members, managing work teams as well.

- Be extremely focused on outcomes; be flexible to deal with ambiguous and dynamic environment, morph as required

- Present to clients in meetings / updates

- Innovate on frameworks / tools and help record learnings to expand Praxis knowledge base

- Be updated with the current trends in the research field

- Play an active part in business development and client engagement and get more business for PGA Labs primarily through farming in existing client relationships

Desired background:

- Minimum 4+ years of research / consulting, advisory or market research experience

- Prior work in relevant fields like management consulting, business research, market research, equity research, or other similar backgrounds

Desired Competencies:

- Strong research skills and past experience in research

- Analytical, ability to derive patterns from data and push for insights

- Resourcefulness and tactfulness in getting market inputs and client requirements

- Ability to work and influence in client settings

- Work collaboratively with counterparts in business partner teams to drive an impact together

- Strong levels of ownership and should demonstrate pride in output

- High focus on outcomes and must enjoy driving clients to action

- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowePoint is a must - very critical for this role

- Strong client management and presentation skills