Roles and responsibilities
- Manage and execute commodity forecasting projects for different commodities for various clients.
- Lead one or more project teams, guiding team(s) on all aspects including scoping, timelines, content, client engagement.
- Deliver high quality, client-ready output consistently; identify risks / issues and escalate to the reporting manager in a timely manner.
- Lead a team of 5-10 people while being responsible for their overall career management.
- Function as a client lead, assuming ownership of assigned client accounts be the main point of contact for client, prioritize work flow, negotiate project timelines/scope, collect feedback and address any issues promptly, identify up-selling/cross-selling opportunities.
- Contribute to different organizational tasks such as hiring, training and other organizational initiatives.
- Responsible for the quality of the work being done in the team; Review work thoroughly to ensure consistently high quality output, value addition and adherence to timelines; be able to judge required level of own involvement on projects, execute parts of projects if situation so demands.
- Provide analysts with effective verbal/ written feedback; counsel analysts on technical as well as business skills and guide them on best practices.
- Keep analyst team motivated, handle difficult situations such as dissatisfaction/disagreement among team, escalate to seniors in a timely manner.
- Interact with clients during the course of the project and post project delivery through both emails and conference calls
Qualifications
- Through knowledge of econometrics (including regression and timeseries analysis).
- Proficient in R programming or python.
- Potential of handling a large team of 5-10 employees as a single point of contact for their daily operational needs as well as overall needs related to career aspiration, performance, expectations, team building etc.
- Ability to act in the capacity of technical advisor to all the projects under his team and advise them without necessarily working on the project.
- Motivated, fast thinking, dynamic person with strong business acumen.
- Result oriented, self-driven, solution seeker.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to do multitasking with ease.
- Ability to take tough decisions with reasoning and logic.
- Patient, calm and composed demeanor.
- Quick grasp and ability to think on the feet.
- Proactive in reaching out to others beyond his immediate area of responsibility to help/assist.
- Effective in handling difficult client and people issues.
- Strong people management skills.
- Strong value system and fair and judicious in decision making Perseverant and can do attitude.
- Ability to lead by example.
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