• Leading thought leadership research to identify key consumer insights and business trends that help our clients in framing relevant growth strategies and transforming their customer experience.• Using techniques like Ethnography, social listening, and video diaries to create customer journey maps, surface hidden biases, and create personas that help brands in targeting right opportunities.• Designing surveys and interview guides to expand both breadth and depth of our research and create data-driven frameworks to support client discussions/workshops across industries like consumer goods, banking, insurance, retail, and consumer electronics.• Managing end-to-end research process with agility – including ideation, hypotheses development, creating research design, conducting primary & secondary research, analyzing data, devising key strategies and recommendations for our clients, and co-authoring external reports.• Liaising with data science and survey modeling teams and leveraging in-house Generative AI tools to quantify and augment our research findings.• Liaising with data visualization teams to create interactive PowerBI dashboards for our stakeholders and consulting leaders.• Managing stakeholder relationships with global C-suite, marketing leads, Client Account Leads, customizing research for industries and markets, and presenting findings on various internal forums.• Leading complete project management including effort and cost estimation, managing timelines, conducting quality reviews, leading a team of researchers, and managing stakeholders’ expectations.

- Conducting high quality research, and developing Point of Views (PoVs) that help our technology partners in their client pursuits.- Expertise in storyboarding and different formats of business writing – including Thoughtleadership reports, by-line articles, business blogs.- Conducting deep-dive primary & secondary research, and interviews to analyze growth strategies of technology companies, and producing actionable insights to help C-suite executives make informed business decisions.- Supporting strategy consulting practice to identify the core business issues at the technology clients through extensive business intelligence, and helping them craft innovative solution offerings to address them.- Formulating and validating research hypotheses by analyzing large financial and operating datasets, developing strategy frameworks and algorithms, representing data through compelling visuals/infographics and Tableau dashboards.

• Supported some of the top global investment banks and sell-side research firms to develop a variety of research reports.• Dissected the US Cable, Satellite & Telecom sectors and the European semiconductor sector to analyze the technology and business trends that impact the market valuation of large-cap companies.• Evaluated the equity performances of companies across tech and telecom sectors to come up with business insights to value the companies, and provide stock recommendations.• Worked on several thematic projects on the sector; came up with fresh ideas which were instrumental in producing company and sector related reports.• Built discounted cash flow equity models, and handled several industry models/databases (such as SEMI, WSTS) to develop PoVs and publish research notes on the rated companies.• Tracked the quarterly earnings of the companies, reported and analyzed financial performance, and developed marketing collaterals in a time-sensitive environment.• Extensively used data sources such as Bloomberg, and Capital IQ.

Job Responsibilities & Projects Undertaken :• Supported some of the top UK-based pension firms and insurance businesses as our clients.• As a configuration team leader on the project, managed various project-planning documents, including software project plan, estimation worksheet and training plans.• As a part of the core software development team, built the back-end functionality of a new pension product that would allow the end-consumers to start drawing annuity from their fund post their retirement.• Created functional packages based on Oracle database, and used client-specific tools such as Automated Document Production to help link the front-end with the back-end.