Strategic Insights Analyst

Job Title : Senior Analyst

Location City : Gurgaon (New Delhi National Capital Region)

Industry : Research and Advisory Services

Company : Everest Group

About Everest Group

Confident decisions driven by deep expertise and tenacious research.

Everest Group is a research firm helping business leaders confidently navigate today’s market challenges, driving maximized operational and financial performance and transformative experiences. Our deep expertise and tenacious research focused on technology, business processes, and engineering through the lenses of talent, sustainability, and sourcing delivers precise and action-oriented guidance. For more information, visit www.Everestgrp.Com.

Job overview

A market facing position that requires advising clients on key global services decisions, providing insightful analysis on one or multiple global sourcing domains such as locations optimization, governance structures, workforce strategy, sourcing models in outsourcing / offshoring space, and cost optimization. The role requires driving actionable insights through a combination of custom advisory engagements (e.G., benchmarking, competitive intelligence) and authoring reports and white papers. The candidate must be able to analyse, communicate, work with senior executives, develop complex and compelling analytical scenarios, and work with clients solving strategic global sourcing issues. The role includes global interactions with Fortune 2000 companies, large technology and business services providers, investors, and industry associations.

Key responsibilities

• Work closely with colleagues within the Commercial and Solutions Analytics (CSA) practice, other practices, and external market participants to support client engagements, develop reports
• Lead medium-sized custom advisory engagements - understand client-specific requirements and conduct relevant research to provide recommendations
• Interact with clients and assist them in strategic business decision making
• Support business development efforts through proposals, marketing campaigns, etc. and leveraging market connect
• Build visibility with clients, prospects, and overall market through blogs, whitepapers, newsletters, presentations
• Develop domain knowledge and get recognized as SMEs within Everest Group as well as the wider industry
• Interact with industry constituents such as global enterprises, service providers, and industry associations to form a 360-degree view
• Drive structuring and gathering of relevant subject-area data and information through primary and secondary research
• Lead detailed numerical analysis of data combined with domain knowledge to identify as well as predict key trends affecting markets
• Own select work streams for project deliverables
• Proactively deliver and manage practice agenda for published research reports
• Publish best-in-class industry reports and cutting-edge thought papers through original research and blue-sky problem solving
• Identify areas of research based on industry and client needs, and proactively develop new content in identified work-streams
• Ensure quality of products and adherence to Everest Group standards

Skills & activities

Education & experience

MBA strongly preferred (from Tier-1 B-School)