Associate Vice President CoRe Research & Insights
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity in the world of strategic business insights and market intelligence? Do you find the interplay of business economics/financials, industry dynamics, and macroeconomic environment thrilling? If yes, then CoRe Research and Insights is the team for you. The team supports Deloittes leaders with strategic insights empowering them with their go-to-market strategies, eminence agenda, and impact with our clients.
Work youll do
- Provide strategic insights to Deloittes senior leadership on key market and client priorities related to (but not limited to) growth strategies, competition, innovation, industry disruptions, and alliances and ecosystems
- Drive business growth by actively developing relationships with key stakeholders and proactively addressing their business challenges through insights solution.
- Lead the quality assurance process for R&I and lead value-addition on customized projects.
- Learn and apply established research tools and methodologies to develop consultative research solutions.
- Managing team of 30+ people, driving their engagement, development and learning & developments
- Drive value-addition/innovation on projects delivered by team.
- Suggest alternatives, and creative solutions to address current and anticipatory needs of clients and stakeholders. Take the relationship beyond transactional level.
- In-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis by connecting various pieces of information, identifying patterns and forming logical structure to present a compelling story. Financial analysis, and strategic frameworks are used extensively in the teams output.
- Connect various pieces of information by identifying patterns and forming logical structure to present a compelling story.
- Present crisp and actionable insights/recommendations for senior leadership with an acute focus for so-what for Deloittes clients and businesses
- Manage results in projects following the best practices in project and time management, while adhering to quality guidelines always
- Liaise with colleagues from Deloitte offices spread across the globe and stakeholders to understand, refine, and manage project expectations and priorities.
- Participate in team level operational and brainstorming activities.
- Mentor and coach new members in the team to come up to speed
Core Skills required
Project Scoping
- Strong understanding of the industry to translate client requirements into developing business-facing insights solutions
- Ability to drive consultative discussions with stakeholders to probe the desired outcomes and suggest appropriate solutions
- Pre-empt potential intelligence needs and architect new products/services/frameworks
- Good knowledge and of databases public sources of information, and industry specific sources and discretion of their relevance and accuracy
Project and stakeholder management
- Experience in working directly with senior leadership
- Ability to build strong relationships and act as trusted advisors for customers
- Ensure adherence to project scope and estimates
- Communicate challenges to the client in a timely manner
- Review output from junior members to ensure quality adherence and drive quality excellence
Internal Sales/Business Development
- Experience in increasing teams/product visibility by proactively engaging internal/external stakeholders
- Experience in cross-selling/up-selling research solutions
- Identify new growth opportunities for the teams services
- Ability to provide solutions proactively based on current or potential requirements
Insight generation
Analytical skills to provide actionable insights to practitioners. This will require,
- Critical thinking that can help look beyond obvious and create hypothesis
- Ability to generate extrapolative and forward-looking insights through both qualitative and quantitative analysis
- Proficiency in analyzing financial statements and operating metrics of companies to assess opportunities for Deloitte and our clients
- Understanding of various strategic / forecasting models and frameworks and applying them as relevant
- Experience in processing information in compelling visualization with logical structuring
Qualification:
- Post graduate degree from a premier B-school with a work experience of at least 14 years and above, including at least two years in strategy research
- Exceptional attention to details, project ownership, and strong track record of executing high-impact projects and initiatives
- Understanding of business operations and macroeconomic dynamics
- Ability to connect financial metrics with operational activities and macroeconomic events
- Excellent business writing, report writing, and communication skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint Solid research skills and familiarity with various research tools (Bloomberg, D&B, Onesource)
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