FutureBridge - Consultant - Business Research

Responsibilities:.
- Strive to achieve defined revenue and cost goals.
- Build / write proposals (gather requirement during client briefing, formulation of winning research solutions for client's business problems, designing of commercial framework, effective presentation of solution and offer, etc.) with minimum support from senior team members.
- Actively participate in tasks related to business development with the support from senior colleagues; participate and support marketing outreach programs; initiate and support in developing industry / capability decks, white papers, thought papers, articles, case studies, etc. to support business development.
- Take lead to build / develop / train / mentor a team of senior analysts, analysts, and associates specialized in offering techno-commercial research & advisory services in chemicals & materials domain.
- Ensure nurture and recruit team members as and when required.
- Accountable for handling all client communication including client query with respect to a specific study kick off calls, deliverable presentation, feedback calls, etc.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; including the ability to articulate and facilitate technical, business, and analytical discussions (thought leadership).
- Strong analytical mindset and with strong technical background to generate insights and actionable recommendations for the client.
- Qualifications, experience, and educational requirements:.
- Bachelor's and/or master's degree chemical & material or related fields or equivalent experience.
- OR bachelor's in chemical/polymer science/metallurgy/industrial and MBA.
- Degree: B.E Chemical Engineering, + preferably MBA (marketing / operations).
- Minimum six (6) years of experience in business research or consulting type of engagements.
- Must have a deep level of primary research experience firsthand and have the ability to train team members & improve their primary research skills (preferred experience would be for primary research for pricing & cost analysis).
- Rich experience in terms of end-to-end management of business research or consulting engagements.
- Up to date with recent industry happening and challenge areas for Chemicals and Natural Resource industry, as well as aware of latest trends like sustainability, biomaterials, carbon neutrality, resource optimization, circular economy and digitization, etc.
- Past and current experience in handling team of qualified professionals.
- Excellent knowledge of Market Analysis, Business Analysis, Technology Analysis, Competitor Intelligence, Management Frameworks, Advanced MS Office, Forecasting and Business Writing.
- Experience and ability to work with all levels of management in an effective, proactive manner.
- Candidate should be self-organized; planned; matured; detail oriented