Senior Analyst – Intelligence & Advisory

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

📋 Description

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

• Utilize consulting frameworks and structured thinking to deconstruct complex challenges and validate hypotheses.

• Integrate incomplete data, establish assumptions, quantify opportunities, and offer recommendations.

• Assist advisory engagements by providing market insights, competitive benchmarking, and strategic advice.

• Take full ownership of the delivery process for market size and outlook reports, industry and technology points of view, account intelligence packs, competitive profiles, battlecards, buying behavior analyses, market trend briefs, capability heatmaps, benchmark reports, and custom research products.

• Compile primary and secondary research from analyst platforms, business databases, and proprietary sources into insights ready for executive presentations.

• Monitor competitor strategies, partnerships, offerings, and deal signals to guide pursuit positioning.

• Analyze market dynamics within applications, cloud and infrastructure, application modernization, data and AI, cybersecurity, digital workplaces, platform engineering, automation, and emerging technologies.

• Develop account-level intelligence to assist in 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.

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

• Verify the accuracy, bias, and source traceability of AI-generated content.

• Produce consulting-grade presentations, proposal narratives, and executive-level communications.

• Present findings and recommendations to senior internal stakeholders.

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

• Manage multiple simultaneous requests while ensuring quality and meeting deadlines.

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

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

• Mentor, guide, and review the work of junior analysts.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5–8 years of progressive experience in research, market/competitive intelligence, deal advisory, and strategy/management consulting, preferably within large IT services or consulting firms, or leading research and advisory organizations.

• Applicants from the BPO industry or BPO services companies should not apply.

• A bachelor’s degree is mandatory.

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

• Strong understanding of the IT services and enterprise technology landscape, along with familiarity in one or two vertical domains.

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

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

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

• Practical experience with generative AI tools and AI agents in research or analysis workflows.

• Excellent analytical and judgment capabilities, encompassing market sizing, benchmarking, comparative analysis, and source evaluation.

• Working proficiency in Power BI, including data modeling, basic DAX/Power Query, and advanced Excel skills.

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

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong proficiency in PowerPoint.

• Preferably experienced in secondary research utilizing tier-1 analyst platforms and business intelligence databases.

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

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

• Familiarity with RFP support, proposal intelligence, or pursuit enablement in a consulting or technology firm.

• Working knowledge of Alteryx, Tableau, Knime, and Qualtrics is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

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

• Paid time off and company holidays, in addition to extra leave benefits according to policy.

• Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance.

• Opportunities for learning and development to foster continuous growth and skills enhancement.

• Employee wellness initiatives and programs aimed at promoting physical and mental well-being.

• Retirement and statutory benefits compliant with India regulations.

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

• Cross-department training and development opportunities.

• Sponsorship for certifications and credentials for ongoing learning.