Consumer & Retail Team- Senior Associate

Key responsibilities: • Develop/ Deliver CRG solutions o Actively contribute as a member of the CRG team to develop/ deliver solutions within the Consumer Products (Food & Beverage, Personal Care, Household Goods, Health & Wellness, Electronics etc.) and Retail domain (Grocery, Apparel, Department Stores/ General Merchandise, E-Commerce, B2B Retail etc.) o Own medium to complex work-streams with support from supervisors o Perform benchmarking across relevant CRG financial and operational metrics to identify areas of potential underperformance o Develop expertise on various Consumer Products and Retail industry sub sectors or clients to enhance overall project insights and strategies o Work with different analytical tools with focus on building expertise in Tableau/ Power BI, Alteryx/ Python, Excel and PowerPoint • Own stakeholder relationships o Interpret, understand and break-down client data/ requirements and project goals across various scenarios and adapt to them o Communicate information/ insights, and the impact of the analyses to the clients and internal team o Manage important work streams and own key business processes to solve client problems o Lead meetings with senior CRG clients, A&M Managing Directors, and third parties about your workstreams. Lead pitch preparation with senior staff and support business development and marketing efforts • Prioritization and Growing A&M o Identifying project needs and milestones to manage & accomplish assigned work by agreed deadlines o Collaborate with team members to create and deliver client outputs o Contribute to office management roles (such as trainings, marketing, recruitments etc.) Qualifications/Ideal Experience: • Graduate from tier-1 college with 3-6 years of experience within a leading strategy/ analytics/ analytics Consulting/ operational Consulting house is preferable, with at-least 2 years of experience working with CRG clients • Possess a good understanding of the Consumer Products and Retail industry, with keen insights into sector data and metrics across various areas, including but not limited to Digital, Brand Assessment, Pricing, Merchandising, General & Administrative, Supply Chain, Inventory Planning, Store Operations etc. • Guide/ mentor Analysts and Associates during projects and business development work • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, business acumen, writing, research and presentation-building skills; attention to detail and striving to produce zero-defect deliverables • Excel modelling skills - structure data within Excel in a way to draw conclusions and support timely decision making with our clients • PowerPoint skills - preparation of defect-free, high-quality client presentations • Experience working in tools such as Alteryx or Python for data analysis, and Power BI or Tableau for data visualization • A strong team player and demonstrated ability to motivate team members • Ability to prioritize - especially in highly pressured situations • High integrity that is characterized by the ability to deliver messages even when they are difficult to hear • Fact-based and analytical approach, solution-focused, action-oriented, determined to make a difference and not afraid to challenge the status-quo, self-starter with entrepreneurial flair • Ability to quickly understand and piece together very vast or very limited amounts of data and to draw certain conclusions/actions from it