AddressThis role will assist an R&D GBS Technical Market Analysis team out of Hyderabad and be responsible for conducting scientific, competitive, market, and desk research, consumer testing, and new idea feasibility analysis. This role will support the overall Technical Market Analysis capability by coordinating with in-market teams as required for the provision of accurate and relevant research outputs.
ResponsibilitiesFunctional Responsibilities
- Identifies and defines the objective of a research project and determines the best methods to use to meet those objectives.
- Perform Market Analysis, consumer needs identification, and consumer / product / desk research and testing activities in line with global requests and ad hoc inquiries as required
- Compiles data related to competitor’s product, strategies, channel dynamics, sales, marketing, R&D or distribution methods
- Perform benchmarking of R&D capabilities against other CPG/FMCG/ Food and Beverage/Health and Nutrition/Life Science industry peers (global and local companies)
- Summarize and analyze data and makes recommendations related to research findings
- Ensure all requests are processed, documented, and delivered within defined SLAs
- Reports findings, complete with graphs illustrating data and written text explaining complex findings
- Appetite to scan through scientific research, search patents and draw out trends and technical direction of a functional area
- Conduct new idea feasibility analysis to generate insights for the advancement of R&D
- Delivers reports and presentation of findings in a concise, structured and story-telling way to executive leadership
- Foster and leverage working relationships with other GBS Technical Market Analysis teams in Hyderabad
- Identify potential areas for process improvements and employee upskilling to make recommendations to Technical Market Analysis team lead for continuous capability / employee development
- Prior experience of working in a global shared services environment preferred
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite
- Detail-oriented, business problem solving and logical reasoning skills, advanced analytical research skills to discover insights that will guide strategic decisions for business
- Strong organizational and communication skills to deliver and report on outputs and insights discovered from conducted scientific research and analysis
- Understanding of Service Management processes
- Ability to manage time effectively across multiple priorities and projects to ensure requests are delivered in a timely manner
- Experience working in a large global CPG / FMCG/ Food and Beverage/Health and Nutrition company, with understanding of the CPG performance outputs and measures
- Exposure to MS PowerPoint, MS Excel and MS Word
- Fluent in English
- Bachelor’s degree required (Chemical Engineering, Food Technology, Pharma or any other science field; Master's degree a plus (MBA, MLS, MLIS, or any other science field)
- 4-6 years of prior work experience in similar or related field
