RocSearch - Associate Manager - Strategic Research & Advisory

Job Description

About RocSearch For over 21 years, RocSearch has been a pioneer in empowering our clients to overcome challenges and realise their goals. Our strength is delivering research and advisory solutions through managed and dedicated teams that produce the expert intelligence our clients require to gain a true competitive advantage. We draw on proven expertise to deliver consistent value across all types of business requirements: ranging from digitisation and analysis of business, financial, or customer data to the provision of act-on insights for the most challenging business problems. Our longstanding client relationships bear testament to the enduring value we create, alongside our consistent reliability and absolute discretion. We take great pride that many of the brightest global companies rely on us to help them achieve top - line growth, operational efficiency and increased profitability. For more information, please visit www.rocsearch.com Role This is an excellent job opportunity for candidates who aspire to work in an analytical, dynamic and fast paced strategic research role. The role will provide opportunities to work and interact with strategy teams of large-andmid-sized corporates and partners / senior consultants at large and boutique strategy and M&A advisory firms in North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. The selected candidate/s will play a pivotal role in managing multiple client relationships and delivering high quality business and strategic research across niche sectors to global clients. Role and Responsibilities - Build an in-depth understanding of the business and research requirements of multiple strategic research clients - Provide research support to prepare in-depth proposals for new strategic research engagements- Plan, lead and manage multiple strategic research projects, including in-depth market sizing, market opportunity assessment, go-to-market strategy support, organic-and-inorganic growth assessment, competitive benchmarking, industry best practices assessment and thematic sector / economic reports - Use best practices and reliable information sources to gather data and apply proxies / data triangulat ion techniques for niche sectors, topics and geographies to provide so-what analysis- Lead and participate in expert consultations, both free and paid, to gather relevant insights on topics with negligible information in secondary domain - Review outputs of junior team members and deliver error free client ready outputs under tight deadlines - Present key findings to the Client and address questions and objections with clarity and confidence - Be responsible for professional development, coaching and evaluation of 3-4 team members - Contribute to firm-level responsibilities which can include knowledge management, training, recruitment, new product development, internal process development, expanding business capabilities, etc. Candidate profile - MBA/ commerce graduates from leading B-Schools and Colleges - 5-7 years of experience in strategic research and consulting - At least 2 years of experience in in coaching and reviewing the outputs of junior team members on strategic research projects- Strong project and client relationship management skills- Lead by example and inspire team members during crisis situations- Impeccable verbal and written communication skills- Extensive experience in conducting in-depth secondary and primary research- Strong understanding of financial concepts and strategy frameworks- Strong business acumen with ability to perform incisive qualitative and quantitative analysis- Ability to logically and meticulously solve business problems and correlate market drivers/ challenges to assess business implications on clients- Excellent data presentation and synthesis skills with attention to detail and the ability to quickly absorb and interpret large datasets,

Keyskills :
qualitymanagementsalesstrong business acumennew product developmentmisinternal process developmentclient relationship managementmarket sizing