▷ Immediate Start Research Analyst- Chemicals, Materials and Nutrition

Job Description

About Frost & Sullivan

We've spent more than 50 years guiding clients across the globe toward transformational growth strategies. Today, more than ever before, companies must innovate, not only to survive, but thrive in the future. Clients choose Frost & Sullivan to not only identify growth opportunities, but to help develop create visionary growth strategies for their futures, enabled by our extraordinary depth and breadth of thought leadership, research, tools, events and experience that assist our clients by making their goals into a reality.

Frost & Sullivan combines 50 years of expertise across key industries with the ability to gather intelligence in a variety of ways to help clients make critical business decisions. The actionable intelligence integrates seven perspectives into a complete, overall view of factors that impact every industry: Competitive Intensity, Customer Dynamics, Industry Convergence, Disruptive Technologies, Global Mega Trends, New Business Models, and Emerging Markets, providing an illuminating view toward future scenarios and visionary innovation.

Practice Area: Chemicals, Materials and Nutrition (CMN)

Title: Strategist, Growth Opportunity Analytics

Location: Chennai/Pune/Mumbai

Who are we seeking

At Frost & Sullivan, we seek people who will do more than just analysis. You will play a significant role in understanding client's business issues, challenges and aspirations. We believe that your ability to deliver solutions to clients problems will depend more on your talent, skills and real-life business experience than just your degree.

We are keen to employ people who care enough about a client's business problem, work hard to understand the underlying issues and accord priority to finding solutions to solve the problems. Your contributions will contribute to our thought leadership and how we support our clients. In solving business problems, there are many unknowns. We are seeking people who can see a way though unfamiliarity, make sense out of limited information and draw insights from ambiguity. This quality will be critical to how we generate growth opportunities for our clients.

Key Responsibilities

- Domain Expertise Become a thought leader in the team, delivering value via strategic research, client engagement, global press, and social media outreach.
- Business Development Maintain business relationships with global technology vendors by regularly participating in briefings and working under the guidance of program/practice area leader to conduct business needs analysis for Frost & Sullivan clients.
- Create reports and contribute to consulting projects in the Chemicals, Materials, Nutrition and Personal Protective Equipment domain.
- Conduct primary and secondary research. Interact with executives from corporates, government & public sector enterprises, and other specialists in the ecosystem to understand and analyze market trends and conduct a minimum of 10 successful detailed primary interactions per report. Willingness to work across different time zones (North America, APAC & Europe).
- Continuously monitor the market and provide insightful quantitative and strategic analysis to our clients through research reports by performing estimates on market sizes and forecasting.
- Collate, dissect and analyze data to conduct opportunity analysis, competitive benchmarking and strategic recommendations for business growth.
- Interact with executives from corporates, government & public sector enterprises, and other specialists in the ecosystem to understand and analyze market trends. To identify and benchmark companies in the industry for their best practices.
- Contribute to articles, white papers and webinars/presentations.

Strategic Contribution

Frost & Sullivan is seeking candidates who can establish Frost & Sullivan as the pre-eminent provider of intelligence in Chemicals, Materials, Nutrition and PPE markets, direct projects that serve the needs of global customers and engage executives preferably through written content, interactive briefings, and other avenues.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

- 3-7 years of analyst/consulting working experience within research and/or advisory services business environment.
- The ability to research and write a coherent story on topics in grammatically correct English is critical.
- A foundational understanding of consulting/research/investigative journalism methodologies and business modelling (primary/secondary research, linear story development).
- A foundational understanding of the core CMN industrries, such as industry structure, operational practices, business functionalities, and competitive landscapes.
- Desire, curiosity, and enthusiasm to build your expertise in the Chemicals & Materials domain to become a respected thought leader in the eyes of global technology vendors.
- The ability to network to create new client relationships and to proactively manage ongoing relationships to stay relevant to the clients.
- Enthusiasm for supporting business development initiatives that benefit the entire team.
- An analytical thought process, with outstanding written and verbal communication skills and business level fluency in English.
- The desire to continuously learn and improve on public presentation skills in front of an audience and a video camera.
- Confidence to present your work to a group of peers or a client and defend your analysis in a calm and professional manner.
- A team player who views team collaboration as an important path to professional development.

Qualifications And Experience

Experience: 3-7 Years

Bachelors: Bachelors, preferably Bachelors in Chemicals, Material Science, B.E/B.Tech in Chemical, Polymer Technology, Architectural or Civil Engineering

Masters preferred: MBA/ Master's in a relevant subject