Research Associate

Requirements:

• Actively seek out new Sales Opportunities. 
• Experience generating leads through Linkedin, Linkedin Sales Navigator and similar portals. 
• Building out and maintaining a strong pipeline of leads and potential new business.
• Conduct market research to identify selling possibilities. 
• Develop and manage efficient networks for Business Development. 
• Maintain knowledge of all product and service offerings of the company. 
• Write new business proposals. 
• Keep prospective client database/CRM updated.

About Company

Our client works in the area of skilling and livelihoods for underserved youth. It is a pioneering program with a strong PPP model, an agency-led

approach to livelihoods and a vision of socio-economic transformation. The NGO runs through a public-private partnership that empowers the Government, Corporates, NGOs and Citizens to work together toward changing lives.

Responsibilities

● Design and execution of research into the impact of an agency-led approach to livelihoods.

● Design and execution of the appropriate baseline surveys in communities.

● Gaining an in-depth understanding of the impact of the NGO program at the community level.

● Identification of research partners as required.

● Building tools and systems for monitoring and evaluation of the Lighthouse program and guiding the work of the data & reporting team.

● Data quality audits for program-specific data across the organization.

Requirements

● Master’s degree in statistics or economics with a specialization in statistical methods, or social sciences with training in qualitative and quantitative research methods.

● Minimum 5 years of work experience in the social sector/ corporate sector.

● Critical thinking

● Analytical ability

● Result orientation

● Excellent written and oral communication in Hindi and English (Knowledge of Marathi

will be an added advantage)

● Creativity

Work with Executives to identify Client needs

- - Interaction with Sales Team to engage in pre-sales and post-sales activities

- Must be excellent in verbal and written communication

- Must be detail oriented in work and focused on results

- Ensure to take appropriate steps to resolve customer's problems

- Audit work orders for accuracy and make corrections if required

Management skills for supervising individuals and departments

 Interpersonal and communication skills for building relationships with their teams, peers, and directors

 Numeracy skills for managing quality reports

 Writing skills for preparing reports

 Negotiating skills for handling the resources per quality performance  Organizational skills for prioritizing their deliverables

 Must be well versed with quality standards and parameters and checks

 Training skills for providing project instructions and feedback to team members

 Proven work experience as a Quality Analyst or similar role

 Experience in quality inspection, auditing and testing

 Strong computer skills and knowledge of QA databases and applications

 Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

 Meticulous attention to detail

We are hiring a business analyst to join our project team. You will work alongside project stakeholders and report directly to Sr. Business analysts. The purpose of the role is to liaison and bridge the gap between the BDM team and technical team to comprehend and analyze customer requirements and translate it to the development teams thereby, ensuring the right requirement detail in the documentation.

To succeed in this role, you should have a natural analytical way of thinking and be able to explain difficult concepts to the team.

Responsibilities

· Elicit requirements, gathering, & documenting.

· Ability to grasp, relate, and quick response to new inquiries.

· Interaction with team members at regular intervals, share knowledge and information

· Clear and concise communication and project management skills.

· Detail out scope documents, functional & non-functional requirements, features, etc. ensuring all stated and unstated customer needs are captured.

· Construct project documents (BRD, FRD) as per the project requirement and develop Flow charts, Use case diagrams, ER diagrams, User stories

· Performing requirements analysis

· Understand SDLC and fit into the Agile environment.

· Co-operating behavioral with the cross-functional team and being able to translate business needs into technical needs.

· Interface and coordinate with BDM team engagement & understand the client’s requirements

We are looking for an ambitious and energetic Research and Market Entry Strategist to help us expand our clientele. You will be the front of the company and will have the dedication to create and apply an effective sales strategy.

The goal is to drive sustainable financial growth through boosting sales and forging strong relationships with clients.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a growth strategy focused both on financial gain and customer satisfaction
• Conduct research to identify new markets and customer needs
• Arrange business meetings with prospective clients
• Promote the company’s products/services addressing or predicting clients’ objectives
• Prepare sales contracts ensuring adherence to law-established rules and guidelines
• Provide trustworthy feedback and after-sales support
• Build long-term relationships with new and existing customers
• Develop entry level staff into valuable salespeople 

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•  Research on topics specific to quant trading, including AI/ML, statistical arbitrage, momentum, mean-reversion, factor investing and applications of statistics and econometrics models.