Senior Analyst/Associate Consultant - Research & Advisory

Position: Senior Analyst/Associate Consultant- Research & Advisory (R&A)

R&A forms part of larger team - Research and Modeling and aligned under KS umbrella. The R&A team provide business insights to our client and its various divisions across. The team works on complex and intensive projects primarily ranging from market / competitor intelligence, market entry strategies and support on multiple strategy initiatives .The team supports strategy and BD teams/community.

Key Responsibilities

- Understand the project requirements expressed by client as well as analyse the business problem faced by the client to scope out unexpressed requirements

- Handle project management issues - develop a blue print / story board of the project, schedule and structure the project, define its scope, develop hypothesis, present the project in the required format and meet deadlines

- Meet client requirements and expectations and schedule client calls - complete client management

- Develop analytical frameworks and research protocols. Contribute towards building the intellectual capital by way of creating training material and imparting training to other research staff

- Develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for key organizational processes and systems.

What are we looking for-

- Proven ability to approach the problem holistically and deep dive to granular details as needed

- Ability to communicate confidently with business leaders and help them in defining project scope and project objective whenever needed

- Proven oral and written communication skills. Ability to express one's opinions clearly to other team members and ability to be a great listener to comprehend and fully appreciate the issues at hands

- Team player with an ability to work in challenging situations

- Strong analytical skills and capability to work in project environment marked with insufficient data and derive meaningful conclusions from apparently ambiguous information

- Familiarity with strategic analyses frameworks and financial analyses techniques to be deployed for analyses of various industries as a whole and companies in particular

- Excellent working skills with Microsoft Office tools, especially power point and excel and familiarity with key research databases

- Strong leadership skills and potential to drive complex projects - as an individual contributor

- Willing to travel aboard on long term engagements

Education and Experience :

- An MBA from a reputed institute with an undergraduate degree in engineering, economics or science

- Relevant experience in business research or advisory services for at least 5 years with KPOs, research and analytics firms or consulting / advisory firms

- Relevant experience in leading project teams and handled complex projects in the past

- Experience in domains such as transportation, nuclear power, government outsourcing and familiarity with geographies such as UK (especially), Europe, Middle East and Americas is desirable but is not mandatory