Frost & Sullivan - Sr Research Analyst - Mfg

Frost & Sullivan, a global growth consulting company, has been partnering with clients to support the development of innovative strategies for more than 40 years. Frost & Sullivan serves an extensive clientele that includes Global 1000 companies, emerging companies, and the investment community, by providing comprehensive industry coverage that reflects a unique global perspective and combines ongoing analysis of markets, technologies, econometrics, and demographics.

Industry Verticals: Industrial Automation & Process control (IPC)

IPC group monitors global as well as regional markets for the IPC domain, which spans across all purdue levels of automation including Industrial automation like PLC, DCS,HMI, SCADA, process control such as rotating equipment, pumps, valves, compressors, etc. and power transmission like Motors, Drives, valves etc

Required Qualifications:

- Strong product and market knowledge in manufacturing industry

- Passionate about manufacturing and pushing the envelope of manufacturing knowledge forward

- Complete understanding of the products, technology, and competition in the manufacturing industry

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Superior critical thinking skills

- Strong analytical and team management skills

- Engineering degree is required; Advanced degree a plus, particularly in the Business Management

- Ability to manage a team analyst and motivate them to deliver thought leadership

- Must demonstrate ability, initiative, and commitment to be a part of excellence

Key Responsibilities:

- The main focus of this role would be to lead a team of analyst to develop and deliver thought leadership to the client.

- The analyst team would be responsible for creating, populating and maintaining a team-wide database for quantitative and qualitative information on the IPC Vertical mentioned above.

- This candidate will work closely with the analysts on the team in Chennai, North America and Malaysia to understand the team’s requirements for information and structure, to do research to populate/update the database with the necessary data points and to maintain the team’s overall repository of knowledge.

- Continuously monitor the technology Market, and provide insightful quantitative and strategic analysis to our clients through market sector reports

- Exhibit thought leadership through articles, blogs, strong presence in media and speaking at conference

- Develop visionary innovation research ideas that transform the manufacturing landscape

- Significantly involve in strategic discussions with c-level executives across leading automation companies.

Strategic Contribution

- Strategically engage with key clients in the IPC domain and develop short and long term strategy such as mergers and acquisition, vertical market penetration, geographical expansion, near and adjacent market opportunities, and others

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

- Strong ability to acquire, analyze and manage information

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Natural team leader

- Self-starter with strong ability to work independently

- Good organizational, time management and project management skills

- Excellent command of Microsoft Office Tools (Lotus Notes would also be advantageous)

- Experience in building and working with spreadsheet-based databases desirable

Qualifications and Experience

- Minimum experience required is 3 year of market research/analysis in either commercial ,academic environments, writing industry reports, doing market research, or consulting in any industry, Marketing (No Sales).

- Bachelor of Engineering or Master of Engineering specialized in any one of the above mentioned Industry vertical.
Or
- MBA, or Master of Science (Physics or Chemistry) or in one of the related industrial engineering sectors.