Specialist/Lead - Research - BFSI

Specialist/Lead

Company : Our client is a US based organization offering Financial Services to global clients.

Position :- Specialist/Lead

Job Code – 0054

Location: Bangalore

Keywords: Strategy, consulting, research

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Independently leading and project managing research oriented projects and developing subject-matter expertise as a customer and competitive intelligence professional

- Build a reputation with direct clients as a solutioner, consultant and recommendations-driven person

- Use analytical tools, frameworks and methods (competitive benchmarking, SWOT, Five Forces, Strategic Competitor Profiling etc.) for generation of insights from available data and information

- Interact with US team to understand their analysis requirements and also throughout the life of the project (kick-off, interim review, final review etc)

- Synthesise data out of multiple data sources to perform analysis about industry/companies/products

- Supervising and quality control, following best practices in project management

- Effectively communicate findings, concerns, ideas, project management elements to multiple stakeholders in an offshore-onshore environment

- Adept at knowledge management

- Competent with managing client relationships

Experience and Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s and post-graduate qualification from top-tier institutions. MBA or equivalent qualification preferred.

- 5-8 years work experience.

- Meaningful experience in strategic secondary research, value-added knowledge services analysis, insight-building, consulting

- Experience in third-party KPOs, financial services, information technology, management consulting, biotech and healthcare industries is also valued

Skills/Competencies:

- Comfort with various techniques of secondary research such as looking up right sources, understanding source credibility, keyword usage, etc

- Demonstrated above-par analytical ability

- Flair for quantitative/ qualitative data analyses and interprétation

- Ability to process data to draw insights, answering “so what” questions about data

- Able to synthesize large volumes of data into comprehensible and insightful information

- Comfort with unstructured data and niche industries/ products/ services

- Comfort with making intelligent assumptions to estimate not-so-easily available data points

- Comfort with making conclusions based on limited data, as available

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with specific focus on “persuasive, influencing” communication style

- Adept in Word, Excel and PowerPoint with special focus on error-free formatting

- Understanding of known industry analysis tools such as Porters’ Five Forces, SWOT analysis, Competitive Metrics, Quadrant Analyses such as BCG or GE matrix etc;

- Also able to generate coherent and intelligent frameworks to convey own insights

- High level of intellectual curiosity

- Professional attitude on service quality

- Attention to detail, especially in all aspects of report making from research to preparation of presentation and client interaction

- Driven, self-starter, go-getter, solution-oriented

- Would typically be in the top 10% of his/ her organization, performance-wise

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