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• Managing pipeline effectively to achieve an optimal balance between research demand and resource utilization• Ensuring project design meets client needs by providing consultation to clients concerning online or research best practices• Performing primary research to understand consumer behaviour in various sectors Communication & Media, Automobile, etc.• Gathering data and analyzing the extracted data and providing output in a structured format by using data visualization tool Tableau• Providing on-demand research presentations such as company profiles, SWOT analysis, and industry profiles on various industries (Insurance, Telecom, CPG, and others)• Lead for quantitative benchmarking services of the research team, standardizing and updating of quantitative information from internal databases/tool and other subscriptions

Chennai Area, India

• Played a Key role in managing, training, developing and motivating a team of research analysts engaged in performing market research• Responsible for resource and work allocation, project planning and Quality check of project deliverables• Experience in performing quantitative and qualitative research and communicating research results through creation of structured end-products such as reports, presentation, and spreadsheets• Collaborating with sales, marketing, and other key stakeholders to understand customer insights and executed customer-centric market/sell plans and programs, which increased the sales and margin growth• Preparing Outside-in Analysis, Company Insights, Industry Analysis, Competitive Landscape Analysis, Business and Geographic Segment Analysis, etc• Familiar with advanced excel options, has good exposure in cleaning the data using different excel functions like lookups and generating reports using pivot tables• Working on databases to pull and gather the relevant information. The databases include S&P Capital IQ, EMIS Pro, Avention, APQC, CEB, Forrester, and others

Chennai Area, India

•Preparing company profiles of various industries which include Telecom, Consumer Retail, etc.•Interacting with global cross functional teams through telephone and email to provide high level professional research services, building virtual relationships and handling deadlines independently•Responsible for maintaining internal database to address various queries that related to the clients’ requests•Working on databases to pull and gather the relevant information. The data bases includes CapIQ, OneSource, Hoovers, IBIS world, First Research, BoardEx, ThomsonOne, Bloomberg and others•Updating the process documents as per the updates in the process and applications•Sending the MIS reports to management and providing power point presentations in client review calls

India

Category Research • As part of category research, working on detailed analysis for various industries that includes Industry performance, Porter five forces analysis, trends and factors, competitive landscape along with key financials and best practices within industry• Identifying appropriate areas of inquiry & category research to produce quality and customized outputs for advisory clients• Mapping external data to the company's services portfolio and enabling the research output to be relevant to client inquiries• Support to the senior research analysts on Research Requests• Assisting research Directors/other research delivery team members in articulating and refining research requests and projects, while working on multiple projects.• Craft effective search strategies and gather relevant information and data leveraging a broad set of resources (e.g., on-line databases, Internet, print sources, trade associations, government agencies, company representatives, external research organization, etc). • Utilize both secondary and primary research sources and techniques• Communicate research results through the creation of structured end-products (memos, spreadsheets, reports, presentations, etc.)• Processing and analyzing raw data into reports for senior managers• Responsible for the development of Industry reports on current and future trends.• Training newly joined Interns about Hackett & its services, Market Research Report and making them to effectively handle day to day inquiries.Account management: • Hackett Certified client Admin• Administrating Advisory clients and providing guidance on their inquiries • Supporting Advisory Account Managers and Program Executives to effectively develop collaborative relationships with Advisory Members.• Documentation of client interactions and maintained client information and renewal activity by generating reports to track client activity

India

Experience with Salesforce.com• Create and maintained database’s for Sales Force• Support Sales team by providing ongoing & adhoc data concierge services like Assigning Leads.• Campaign Management (Upload contacts, Task Assignments, Activity Report)• Control the integrity (accuracy, thoroughness, process compliance) of all data in the Salesforce.com CRM database.• Screen records to check data accuracy and ensure the most complete & reliable record information is available for Marketing & Sales activities.• Enrich data by appending additional details to records through efficient secondary research while also ensuring that records are updated with the most complete and timely information• . Assist the Marketing Department in the maintenance of their contacts database / other list management etc

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance, General, Marketing

Bachelor'S Degree, Biochemistry, Biotechnology And Chemistry