Associate Consultant

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About This Role:
Forresters Associate Consultants (ACs) drive program management that entails owning the end-to-end schedule, status, and client communication and supports consultants in client-facing deliverables, analysis, and presentation. ACs ensure that the project is delivered on time and manage internal processes. A contributor to creating high-quality, research-based consulting deliverables, Associate Consultants are the operational engine of the practice, maintaining and innovating the processes, tools, and data that drive the efficiency and quality of our team and products. This role requires an analytical mind, strong customer communication, writing and project management skills, and the enthusiasm to learn.
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• Act as program manager for a portfolio of projects. Ensure projects are delivered on time and of high quality.
• Plan, collect, and analyze quantitative and qualitative data through client interviews, surveys, and/or other data sources.
• Communicate with clients and internal partners clearly and concisely in a timely manner.
• Synthesize insights and recommendations from analyses into structured, succinct client deliverables in areas including business case/value, thought leadership, maturity assessment, transformation roadmap, operating model design, etc.
• Coordinate internal and external resources, contributing, and editing to support the creation of project deliverables (studies, workshops, presentations, interview guides, and infographics).
• Focus on project outcomes and client value, including responsibility for overall polishing/editing of project deliverables, to contribute to client satisfaction and project quality.
• Manage third-party providers, including custom research vendors, translations vendors, etc.
• Lead project management tasks across strategy and content marketing projects.

• Program-manage India advisory cases, helping manage scope, analyst content, and timelines for delivery effectively.
• Consistently contribute to internal initiatives of the consulting practice that help optimize its operations, global collaborations, and growth.
• Have a client-centric and positive attitude that helps build trust among clients and the Forrester ecosystem.
  

Job Requirements:

• A bachelors degree or masters/MBA degree and a strong academic record.
• Consulting experience or work in demand-generation, thought leadership, and content marketing practices; a formal project management experience or training.
• Experience working with subject matter experts with deep content knowledge.
• Structured verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Proficiency with PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.
• An understanding of business, technology, marketing, research, sales, and customer experience concepts.
• Excellence in problem solving; creating insights from structured or unstructured inputs (qualitative and quantitative); and analyzing multiple disparate white paper/research inputs, extracting key messages, and synthesizing a point of view.

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• Effective multitasking and collaboration (internally and externally) under pressure in different, dynamic work environments.
• The ability to prioritize tasks and work at ease around senior business professionals.
• The passion to develop a strategy/management consulting career.
• Willingness to travel within India and/or the APAC region for milestone client presentations as needed.
  

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