Lead Analyst - Business Research

About the Organisation

It is a leading management, systems and technology consulting firm that is employee-owned, award-winning, independent and ambitious for further growth.

Knowledge Processing Centre (KPC) is the centre of excellence within the co. that provides cutting edge research and analysis support to its consulting community. The unit is centered in Bangalore, India which works with a globally distributed team of specialists that operates in the UK, Germany, Denmark and the US.
KPC Specialist Research and Analysis team delivers highly customized research outputs that provide relevant and most current information and insight to support strategic and tactical decision making across business functions and industries/sectors.

Purpose of the Job

- A Lead analyst delivers insightful reports through the provision of research and analysis from secondary sources and subscribed databases either on a standalone basis or in conjunction with team members.

The research insights enabling the company consultants to take more informed decisions while functioning internally or externally:

- External: to support consultants with useful and cutting edge insights for them to better deliver their consulting assignments

- Internal: to support consultants with their sales and marketing efforts.

Roles and Responsibilities

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Research Delivery

The primary role of a Lead analyst is to deliver professional and insightful research reports for use internally within the company or externally outside. This would involve:

- Client Management: understanding briefs from clients, clarifying doubts, agreeing on scope of work and managing client expectations to ensure complete satisfaction

- Research Design: design research approach / storyboard to meet the client expectations within the specified deadline

- Conduct Research: conduct research to the scope of work using secondary sources and if required primary means

- Project Management: manage a team of analyst to get to ensure smooth delivery of work. This includes but not limited to in a smooth and effective work distribution.

- Team work: While the lead analyst is expected to carry out his/her work, he/she might also be a part of a larger team to deliver assignments/projects on a need to need basis.

Share knowledge and best practices

- Sharing knowledge and best practices is an important part of our daily work. It is encouraged that each analyst in the organization shares his knowledge to achieve better collaboration and productivity. Knowledge can be shared either on subjects of expertise or best practices in doing research work.

Types of Work

Although we work also varied types of assignment, some typical ones could include:

Market and Industry Analysis

- A typical market and industry analysis work will involve assessing the market potential in terms of size and growth, analysis of various trends within the market/industry, drivers and challenges, potential opportunities etc.

Company / Account Intelligence & Analysis

- A typical company / account intelligence work will involve presenting facts and figures about a company’s structure, business segments, financials, competitors, future strategies etc.

Competitor Intelligence & Analysis

- A typical competitor intelligence work will involve benchmarking a company against its competitors against various parameters such as financial performance, services, clients, analyst opinion etc.

Databases

- Database work carried out by the company Knowledge Services is quite varied in nature and complexity. It can range from simple contact database for sales and marketing purpose to complex industry specific database.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

KNOWLEDGE

- Should possess sound knowledge of tools and techniques on how a market research should be conducted.

- Should possess sound knowledge of conducting Market and Industry Analysis, Company/Account Intelligence & Analysis, Competitor Intelligence & Analysis, Market Sizing, Creation of business databases etc.

- Strong working knowledge in MS Office 2007 (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)

- Good knowledge of working with professional database/information aggregators such as Factiva, onesource, Hoovers, LexisNexis etc.

- Candidates with good working knowledge in analytical frameworks such SWOT, BCG Matrix, Value-chain analysis, 3C model, Time-Series Model etc. are preferred.

- Candidates with experience working in sectors such as Government, Public sector, Education, Manufacturing and IT sectors are preferred.

SKILLS

- Should possess excellent secondary research skills.

- Should possess good presentation skills with the use of innovative frameworks to present the research findings/output in a professional manner.

- Should be able to think analytically in order to:

- Effectively assess each research requirement from clients

- To draw clear and concise conclusions from the research work to be presented to various executive leaders across the client teams.

- Good communication and interpersonal skills

- Ability to lead from the front as and when required

- Should be an excellent team player and must be comfortable working with people from diverse cultures and backgrounds

- Good project management skills

EXPERIENCE

- 4-7 years of business research experience

- Full-time MBA /PGDBM/equivalent from a reputed institute is mandatory

- BE / B.Tech preferable

Please email your CVs to moin.shaik@peepalconsulting.com with the CTC details.

Moin