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
