Enabling Areas-Consumer Durable and Retail-Research Manager

What impact will you make?

Every day, your work will make an impact that matters, while you thrive in a dynamic culture of inclusion, collaboration and high performance. As the undisputed leader in professional services, Deloitte is where you’ll find unrivaled opportunities to succeed and realize your full potential

Deloitte is where you’ll find unrivaled opportunities to succeed and realize your full potential.

The Team

The world of business, economics, and finance is rapidly changing. Trends in the economy affect businesses, industries, and the financial markets that interact with one another in dynamic and often unpredictable ways. TheDeloitte Research and Insights team is focused on analysing economic and industry developments in India and their relevance to businesses. The team is responsible for conducting path-breaking and innovative research, analyse trends, and develop in-depth business and industry/sector thought leaderships that provide useful insights to enable business teams/partners to make strategic decisions.

Important qualities/ skills required for the job

As a Manager in the Research team, you will be responsible for industry and Consumer Durable research, analysis, and writing. You will be:

• Working closely with India’s research team in analyzing industry developments and trends in India and various other regions.
• Implementing research methods, conducting literature survey of reports and academic papers, leading secondary data collection, and analyzing and synthesizing data,
• Structuring, organizing, and synthesizing information to generate research hypotheses through rigorous gap analysis of secondary research and develop key insights
• Validating research hypothesis to propose potential in support of the points of view.
• Contributing to developing ideas for topics as well as specific approaches to address topics of interest in a rigorous and usually quantitative manner.
• Writing draft reports to provide valid and credible findings
• Presenting and summarising data, insights, and preparing client-ready deck on all deliverables.
• Past experience of writing reports or co-authored is a must.
• Writing client-ready sections on short case studies and points of view.
• Ensuring the quality of deliverables and meeting or exceeding client expectations.
• Handling ad hoc tasks or projects, including handling bespoke requests from clients
• Effectively managing multiple tasks and stakeholders of all levels by prioritizing urgency and importance
• Continuously building and strengthening relationships with Business & Internal stakeholders.
• Managing day-to-day client relationships at mid and lower levels.

Qualifications

• Must have 8+ years of experience with a good research background, specifically in industry-related and Consumer and Retail Sector research.
• Good writing and communication skill is a must and must have worked on research reports and written short reports.
• Has a good knowledge of MS office applications with a knowledge of basic macros in excel.
• Demonstrates an understanding of / strong interest in core Financial concepts and methodologies.
• Is familiar with macroeconomic and financial concepts and major economic databases.
• Has a good working knowledge of applied statistical techniques

• Must have good interpersonal skills and a team player with a positive attitude and willingness to initiate
• Strong multi-tasking skills and a collaborative working style.
• Must have very strong attention to detail and the ability and willingness to learn quickly about new subjects.

Your role as a leader

At Deloitte India, we believe in the importance of leadership at all levels. We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society and make an impact that matters.

In addition to living our purpose, AM across our organization:

• Builds own understanding of our purpose and values; explores opportunities for impact
• Demonstrates a strong commitment to personal learning and development; acts as a brand ambassador to help attract top talent
• Understands expectations and demonstrates personal accountability for keeping performance on the track
• Actively focuses on developing effective communication and relationship-building skills
• Understands how their daily work contributes to the priorities of the team and the business