Associate Manager - Research

Typical Roles & Responsibilities

• Participate in commercial and market reviews, strategic studies, and business plan reviews.
• Design of commercial and financial analysis e.g. market sizing, market driver analysis, business model analysis, competitive benchmarking, etc
• Independently executing mid-sized research projects and taking ownership. Be actively involved in structuring the output and its delivery. Be responsible for design and quality of deliverables. Manage client communication through the projects
• Positively contributing to the firms growth and reputation. Contribute to thought leadership and knowledge management to support practice development
• Supporting Manager/Director with business development initiatives, including bid proposal and management

Experience/ Skills

• Experience - 4 to 7 years in consulting, market research, syndicated research, or benchmarking products. Must have exposure (1-2 years) to subscription-based product businesses.
• Experience must include - Project delivery and team management
• Client Engagement - Act as the day-to-day client contact for smaller engagements. Support account managers / delivery leads in query handling for the designated module
• Product Enrichment - Contribute to product enrichment and innovation through process improvements, feedback collection, and competitive research.
• Solutions & Proposals - Provide inputs to proposal development and solution design for new opportunities, in collaboration with account managers.
• High problem-solving skills
• Strong numerical, analytical and strategic thinking skills - able to demonstrate how one supports the other - and sound commercial acumen
• Comfortable working to tight deadlines and demanding requirements
• Driven and ability to work independently
• Flexibility to adapt to a variety of different engagement types, working hours and work environments and locations

Education: MBA (Marketing / Finance / Strategy / Economics.) (Preferably from Tier-II/III B-School)