Research Associate - CPG

Experience in Retail, Apparel and Luxury Goods is a must.

Role of Research - Key Aspects of your daily tasks

There would be 3 key aspects of your role:

Assignment Execution

- Supporting consultant on live search mandates

- Collaborating with different teams across offices on assignments, e.g., building target list of companies, identifying potential candidates for the assignment, assisting in market mapping and market analysis

- Comprehensively searching internal and external resources to identify companies and markets to be targeted for relevant candidates

- Assisting in ensuring relevant information is captured effectively into our database and is up to date

- Generating client deliverables e.g. status reports, mapping reports, pitch packs, long lists, candidate profiles etc.

- Assisting colleagues with assignments, candidate ideas and sources.

Business Development

- Act as a support channel in highlighting potential business opportunities to the practice group

- Proactively monitoring and tracking relevant market developments, tracking people moves, following critical company developments and disseminating the information in a targeted manner.

- Proactively provide insights on industry trends and key companies

- Act as a thought partner to Research & Consulting colleagues, work on search strategy, benchmarking candidates

- Assisting or leading the development of marketing presentations for the practice group

Knowledge Management

- Building repository of knowledge on the sector/industry, creating org charts, managing people moves and sector movements

- Develop specialist knowledge into sector trends, compensation data and characteristics of the sector

Candidate Profile

Role of Research - Our Expectations

Project Management

- Time management, managing deadlines, managing multiple projects, utilizing right resources and problem solving

Thought Partnering

- Collaboration with senior consultants & partners, demonstrating conceptual thinking, defining search strategy, benchmarking candidates and appropriate target companies for the your sector

Judgement

- Identifying relevant candidates and sources based on industry knowledge, problem solving ability, insight and intuition

Delivering Output & Documents

- Producing high quality content of relevant documents

Collaboration and Teamwork

- Partnering with others on projects and contributing as a part of the team

Communication Skills

- Confident and strong communicator, adequately, have a professional demeanor

Required knowledge/experience:

- Post Graduate from an accredited academic institution

- At least 8+ years of professional experience with a deep knowledge of, or clear propensity to learn about the Consumer Products Industry at large, its competitive landscape including the very latest trends.

- Experience of working on international engagements in a professional services environment with an understanding of Global market

- Openness to travelling once or twice a year if need be

- A self-starter with learning agility, engaging remotely, thought partnering, critical thinking, eye for detail, conceptual thinking

- Superior verbal and written communication skills and expertise with MS-Office (Word, PowerPoint & Excel)