Analyst – Intelligence & Advisory

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Transform pursuit, account, and client inquiries into well-defined problem statements, hypotheses, issue trees, and research plans.

• Utilize consulting frameworks and structured analytical thinking to deconstruct complex issues, validate hypotheses, and arrive at defensible conclusions.

• Assist pursuit and advisory projects with market insights, competitive analysis, and strategic direction.

• Manage the comprehensive delivery of research products, including market outlooks, technology points of view, account intelligence packs, competitive profiles, battlecards, buying behavior analyses, trend briefs, capability heatmaps, and benchmark reports.

• Integrate primary and secondary research from analyst platforms, business databases, and proprietary sources into narratives suitable for executive presentation.

• Monitor competitor strategies, partnerships, offerings, and deal signals, translating these into effective pursuit positioning.

• Examine market dynamics across various sectors, including applications, cloud, infrastructure, modernization, data and AI, cybersecurity, digital workplace, platform engineering, automation, and emerging technologies.

• Develop account-level insights for strategic account planning, C-suite engagement, and opportunity identification.

• Design, create, and maintain interactive Power BI and lightweight HTML dashboards and reports.

• Clean, model, and visualize data sourced from Excel, databases, and analyst-platform exports.

• Leverage AI tools and agents to automate research workflows, ensuring human validation of outputs.

• Assess AI-generated content for accuracy, bias, and source traceability; establish reusable prompts and agent workflows.

• Transform research findings into narrative-driven storylines, proposal content, and communications aimed at CXOs.

• Develop consulting-quality presentations and data visualizations using brand-compliant templates.

• Present findings and recommendations to senior internal stakeholders.

• Collaborate with consulting, sales, practice, and deal teams on hypothesis-driven research and insight-rich narratives.

• Manage multiple simultaneous requests while ensuring quality and adherence to timelines.

• Contribute to reusable research assets, templates, source libraries, frameworks, and maturity models.

• Monitor delivery metrics and contribute to win/loss analyses.

• Mentor, guide, and review junior analysts.

⛳️ Requirements

• 3-5 years of progressive experience in research, market/competitive intelligence, deal advisory, and strategy/management consulting within top-tier IT services or consulting firms, or leading research and advisory organizations.

• Candidates from the BPO industry/BPO Services companies need not apply.

• A bachelor’s degree is required.

• A master’s degree in management from a recognized institution is preferred.

• Strong understanding of the IT services and enterprise technology landscape, including enterprise applications, cloud, infrastructure, digital transformation, data and AI, and GenAI, as well as familiarity with one or two vertical domains.

• Demonstrated ability to decompose ambiguous, open-ended questions into structured problems, formulate and test hypotheses, conduct root-cause analysis, and derive clear conclusions with minimal supervision.

• A consulting-oriented approach to scoping, framing, and addressing stakeholder inquiries.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, encompassing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

• Familiarity with software tools such as Alteryx, Tableau, Power BI, Knime, and Qualtrics is advantageous.

• Practical experience utilizing generative AI tools and AI agents in research or analytical workflows.

• Strong capabilities in market trend analysis, vendor strategy assessment, and enterprise needs evaluation.

• Proficient working knowledge in Power BI, including data modeling, DAX, and basic Power Query.

• Advanced skills in Excel.

• Ability to create clear, interactive dashboards, including HTML-based dashboards.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong proficiency in PowerPoint for crafting polished, consulting-grade presentations, charts, and visual narratives.

• Experience with secondary research utilizing tier-1 analyst platforms and business intelligence databases is preferred.

• Capability to manage multiple concurrent deliverables with competing priorities and tight deadlines.

• Collaborative and consultative mindset with the ability to build trusted relationships with global, cross-functional teams.

• Exposure to RFP support, proposal intelligence, or pursuit enablement within a consulting or technology firm.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees, with options to extend to dependents.

• Paid time off and company holidays, along with additional leave benefits as per policy.

• Flexible work arrangements to promote work-life balance.

• Opportunities for learning and development to foster continuous growth and upskilling.

• Employee wellness initiatives and programs focused on both physical and mental well-being.

• Retirement and statutory benefits in accordance with Indian regulations.

• An inclusive and people-first culture emphasizing collaboration and ownership.

• Cross-department training and development opportunities.

• Sponsorship for certifications and credentials to support ongoing learning.