Consultant / Senior Consultant / AVP / VP – Research and Consulting

About Axience

• Axience is a professional business services firm, established with a credo of delivering “Integrated Bespoke Solutions” to our clients
• We provide high quality customized and boutique style business and financial research services and have established ourselves as a well-regarded research firm with strong clientele, board, and management team
• Our main offices are located in Mumbai (India) with small capabilities in Dubai (UAE) and Toronto (Canada) with extended sales and execution capabilities
• We offer competitive financial rewards, rapid learning and growth, and significant and varied responsibility to exceptionally driven and motivated candidates

Research and Consulting Services

• Under our research and consulting vertical, we support large and medium size corporates and consulting firms globally in projects varying from market scans to company profiles to complex competition intelligence/benchmarking, feasibility studies and strategy formulation
• Our business is a mix of ongoing dedicated analyst relationships and ad-hoc value added projects. This mix allows our staff to have arguably better learning and growth opportunities than our peers

Position: Consultant / Senior Consultant / AVP / VP (multiple openings)

Axience is currently looking to hire seasoned research professionals to support in various aspects of market research, market sizing and assessment, competitive intelligence, strategy support. Broad range of activities include:

The Role and Responsibilities

A Consultant at Axience is hired typically as a fresh graduate / postgraduate or from industry with maximum of 2-3 years of experience. Consultants work on basic market and strategic research. Detailed responsibilities may include (but not limited to):

• Understand research objectives, design partial or full research strategies, interpret and analyse information for accuracy, exhaustiveness and applicability
• Work on projects ranging from market entry study, opportunity assessment, competitive landscape, target/supplier identification & benchmarking, newsletters, company profiles, etc
• Mapping industry professionals and their background to build analytical insights and for primary interviews
• Working on RFP and proposals as well as pilot projects for the clients

A Senior Consultant (SC) / Assistant Vice President (AVP) - will be exclusively responsible for all ongoing projects (existing and new) for one or more accounts in Research and Consulting Business and possibly in other sectors too

• SC / AVP will play a key role (if not exclusive lead role) in complex, client engaging ad-hoc projects related to business/market/competitive assessment and intelligence
• Should have least 4-6 years of experience working on various projects into multiple sector and have supported Corporates / Professional Services / Investment Management clients
• He/she will lead anywhere between one to four accounts based on size and importance of accounts, experience and seniority of account lead and other factors and work time to time on other accounts and initiatives
• SC / AVP will have a customer centric mind over and above delivery centric approach and will engage directly with senior management of the firm and act as an interface between delivery team and management as directed and needed

A Vice President (VP) leads end to end delivery of projects - scoping, planning, day to day analysis, managing efforts of junior team members, client interface, conducting own analysis and reporting

• A VP at Axience is hired typically from peer groups or related background with minimum of 8 years of experience
• To work on market strategic research projects and take full responsibilities of managing, mentoring, guiding and training analysis

Desired Academic and Professional Background

• MBA from a premier business school (those with an engineering background would be given higher priority)
• Multiple years of post-graduation experience in business / market research, company / sector studies, among others
• Understanding of financial concepts and analysis
• Conversant with investment analysis and business due diligence
• Strong project structuring skills, secondary and primary market research skills
• Should have highly developed and demonstrable research and analytical skill set
• Prior work experience with captives of management consulting firms is a plus

Required Skills

• Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
• Highly organized with strong time management
• Autonomous, self-disciplined and self-driven
• Strong interpersonal communication and presentation skills
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Interest and passion in research and analysis
• Financial analysis skill will be a plus
• Knowledge of databases such as Bloomberg, Thomson
• Advanced skills in Excel, PowerPoint and Word

Other Important Notes

• Please DO NOT apply if you do not fulfil the above criteria
• Only Mumbai based candidates or those that are willing to relocate will be considered
• The role is based in Mumbai and is fully work from office