Strategic Projects Lead

Experience in industry studies and other deep dive projects (Go-to-market, competitive landscape, market mapping, market sizing, etc.), and basic financial understanding, project management including people management.

Opportunity

This opportunity is ideal for a private equity / investment banking / strategy consulting professional who is interested in working with leading global private equity funds and corporations.

Candidates need to be dedicated and motivated individuals who have demonstrated academic excellence and have strong leadership, analytical, communication and teamwork skills.

This role would involve supporting a large global private equity client with :

• Client management : Interacting with client, understanding project scope and managing / delivering the projects independently, discuss project, negotiate deadline, handling client queries
• Team management : In addition to working on a project, able to guide 4-5 analysts on their projects, help them conceptualize and plan their project, reviewing team’s work, signing-off before delivery
• Analyzing investment themes / strategies : Evaluating attractiveness of the overall sector / geography / company focused investment themes and strategies of the fund
• Investment opportunity identification : Identifying emerging and high-growth sectors for investment assessment through market analysis such as market size, historical and projected growth rates, emerging market trends, key drivers, etc
• New market identification & entry strategies : Identifying new markets for growth through analysis of market size, competitive landscape, growth opportunities and formulating organic and / or inorganic entry strategies
• M&A and strategic analysis : Identification and analysis of potential targets through analysis of markets, products, services and financial synergies
• Commercial due diligence support : Commercial due diligence of potential investment through analysis of the market opportunity, target company’s business model, its competitive positioning, etc.
• New product identification and marketing strategies : Market segmentation, product benchmarking, pricing studies, competitor analysis to identify best of breed strategies for investee companies
• Industry dashboards : Periodic monitoring of key industry drivers and performance indicators for specific industries
• Portfolio company monitoring : Periodic tracking of business and financial performance indicators of portfolio companies and benchmarking those with their peer group for timely identification of upside and / or downside triggers
• Quantitative : Trading and Transaction comparable analysis;

Basic understanding of financial statements / analysis such as ration analysis

Ratio analysis, identifying relevant KPIs of the industries

Required Background