SR. SPECIALIST, GLOBAL STRATEGY & OPS (GSO)

Sr. Specialist plays a critical role on the team. This role primarily comprises leading the following key activities: Overseesupport competitive intelligence and competitive benchmarking projects for firm leadership Ensure timely, high quality, zero-defect analysis and output produced by the associates Day to day coaching and mentoring of junior team members (staffed on assigned projects) Independently drive communication with senior stakeholders on their requests, managing quality of output and deadlines Essential Functions Data gathering, analysis and synthesis Secondary research to gather data about the key consulting players Analysis and synthesis to produce key insights for the stakeholders Suggest alternate, new ways/platforms to find better quality data Applies and builds technical expertise of Data Visualization and Data Analysis (EDA) tools like Alteryx, Tableau, etc Refreshing and maintaining dashboards and data on Excel and Tableau, along with optimization of Alteryx workflow Producing error-free research output Problem solving, hypothesis generation and work-planning Understand context of client requests and create practical and targeted solutions, leveraging data and analytical tools Create project delivery roadmap in consultation with team leadership Lead work-planning (outcomes and timelines) for the assigned projects; manage work-plans for assigned team members Monitor and manage workload and resolving overloads Stakeholder Management Effectively communicate with stakeholders and manage meetings, who are senior Bain audience around the world, to deliver clear and professional presentations Ensuring zero-defect in all deliverables and overseeing production of research and commercial reports and dashboards, ensuring timely, high quality, zero-defect analysis and output, as per agreed SLAs Understand stakeholder needs and situations and adapt to project expectations; show ability to resolve complex issues across work streams. Team Leadership Coaching and training team on tools and processes to drive effectiveness, efficiency and innovation Qualifications First class undergraduate/postgraduate from leading and reputed colleges 6-8 years (graduates)/4-6 years (postgraduates) of relevant experience working with large, multi-national organization or Understanding of the research/consulting business environment, language, and processes Understanding of the research/consulting business environment, language, and processes Knowledge of working with online journals, websites, reports and paid databases Good data interpretation skills Strong skills in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint Excellent oral and written communication skills including the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders Ability to work on competitive intelligence studies, market sizing and estimation Working knowledge of data analytics software such as Alteryx, python as we'll as passion for automation of processes/reporting using these tools Ability to prioritize projects, manage multiple competing priorities and drive projects to completion under tight deadlines