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Job Summary We partner with Product Management and cross-functional teams (Pricing, Sales, Sales Ops, Marketing etc.) to solve their biggest challenges. We provide strategic insights and actionable recommendations combining comprehensive outside-in and inside-out analysis with advanced data science. Leveraging industry best-practices and powerful data science techniques, our team delivers projects with deep analytical insights, predictions, and insightful recommendations. In all our projects, we strive to build a deep understanding of market needs, competitive dynamics and differentiated customer value drivers to arrive at optimal Product Strategy/Roadmap and GTM recommendations. We engage with Business Leaders to identify and prioritize their challenges. Post aligning on scope of the project, we start the analysis with well-formed set of hypotheses of businesschallenges that strengthen or weaken our present position. Projects are often beyond the reach ofdescriptive analysis and involve consultative engagement to deliver the story of what the data tells us qualitatively/quantitatively, how well we can predict future state, and how to turninsights into actions having positive tangible results. We socialize project insights and recommendations with senior leaders through skillful storytelling. Job Requirements Ability to break down complex problem statements into manageable steps and building structured execution plan around it. Strong problem-solving skills, quantitative and qualitative research, business process skills. Familiarity with Tech (Infrastructure domain) industry preferred. Experience in using 3rd party market research (e.g. Gartner, IDC, Forrester, etc.) to identify industry trends and their implications. Comfort with data – from data management (SQL), from a visualization (e.g., PowerBI or Tableau) standpoint – is preferable. Proficient Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel and PowerPoint. A pro-active self-starter personality that takes ownership of delivering results. Robust communication, presentation skills and ability to up-level insights for senior leadership. Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams such as product, engineering, marketing etc. across time zones. Responsibilities Assess market trends and evaluate disruptive technologies in Storage industryfor both on-premises and cloud segments. Develop market entry strategy based on growth opportunities, capabilities and challenges. Perform competitive analysis and benchmark NetApp against competitors. Analyze product features/data sheets to perform feature parity analysis. Formulate and refine GTM strategies, growth, and partnership opportunities for products. Support product performance, pricing analysis for direct and channel to identify portfolio improvement opportunities. Conceptualize segmentation models to drive account prioritization and new customer acquisition. Estimate wallet share and opportunity with enterprises using macro and micro economic indicators. Develop executive-level presentations from initial storyboarding to logical structuring to presenting analyses and recommendations for strategic improvements. Education MBA/ Master’s degree in Business Strategy, Corporate Strategy, Finance (or related). 5-7 years of experience in leading strategy consulting firms/ management consulting firms/ corporate strategy functions of technology companies.
