Strategic Insights & Thought Leadership

MSS, Community Management / Strategic Insights & Thought Leadership (Mumbai/ Bangalore): 2-10 yrs

- Create strategy documents for annual and 3-yr planning processes

- Support sales planning – collating and proposing GSN sales budgets

- Provide inputs for business reviews with Group and other ad-hoc events (e.g. Techdays with analysis) – for example, most recent DT projects, DT pipeline

- Support bids, specifically in the DT domain (sourcing creds, managing bids, coordinating inputs)

- Co-ordinate and provide support for offer development as required specifically DT offerings or domain offerings

- Guide company’s global consulting community through "thought leadership"

- Develop insights and strategies on topics of prime concern for company’s global practice of Marketing, Sales and Services

- Assist global consulting project teams as a subject matter expert (SME)

- Conduct independent in-depth and Insightful Strategic research on topics of interest from the Marketing, Sales and Services

- Community Management and communication

- Arrange monthly leadership team meetings – combination of virtual and face to face - with the GSN/GPN lead, define the agenda, identify and invite attendees, request, co-ordinate and create inputs

- Create editorial for Monthly/Qtly GSN /GPN Newsletter (summary of GSN /GPN figures, client achievements, content outlook, people news)

- Provide editorial on a monthly basis around Key deals for CC Global Sales Newsletter

- Liaise with KM on cred production, newsletter publication, Connect management etc

- Produce monthly dashboards (standard format to be developed for all GSNs and GPNs)

- Create monthly M review packs (including performance overview; growth plan actions; account overview; thought leadership pipeline; GSN / GPN Operating Budget

- Define and track GSN/GPN operating budget

- Channel internal requests to appropriate teams/ functions

Primary Skills (Must have)

- A post graduate degree in management from a premier institute with relevant experience in Marketing, Digital Sales and Services domain.

- 2-9 years of Experience in a good consulting firm / premier research organizations / premier organizations in Marketing, Digital Sales and Services domain. Strategic thinker with proven ability to work within at least 2 of the following areas:

- Customer experience transformation

- Multi-channel strategy and self service experience with

- Customer proposition development (including new product/market development and pricing)

- Customer analytics (including segmentation, data strategy and web analytics)

- Campaign management (inbound and outbound, online, offline and integrated)

- Digital Marketing and working with Marketing Agencies

- - A deep understanding of the issues and future challenges facing the global Marketing, Sales and Services industry either from working for in a premier marketing & Sales organization or working in a research or consulting company specializing in this area.

- Experience of strategic analysis and research.

- Excellent analytical skills and a strong sense for structure and logic.

- Ability to build business cases and models and comfort with financial analysis.

- Problem solving skills.

- Ability to take responsibility of assigned tasks and work with minimum guidance.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

- Expertise in developing and delivering PowerPoint (ppt) based reports.

Secondary Skills (Nice to have)

- Exposure to working in an international environment, especially Europe

- Experience of working with globally dispersed project teams, in a matrix organizational set-up

Kindly send across your profile to renila.n@saakiandargus.com or harini.k@saakiandargus.com