AddressPrevious Experience: An ideal candidate would have had at least 5+ years of previous experience supporting a large Financial Institution (investment bank, private equity fund, hedge fund or asset manager etc.).
Requirements:
- Post Graduate, MBA in Marketing
- 5+ years of business and market research experience
Responsibilities:
- Create detailed company profiles and industry reports
- Interpret data from online sources, build industry-specific datasets
- Collect and analyze data on consumers, competitors, and market trends
- Provide competitive analysis on offerings, pricing, and business models
- Demonstrate strong analytical and critical thinking skills
- Deliver clear and concise reports and presentations
- Work both independently and collaboratively in a team
- Meet strict deadlines consistently
Scope:
Business and Financial Analysis: Leverage primary and secondary research including surveys, expert interviews, competitive analysis, and financial and business data to deliver actionable strategic insights. Provide in-depth market and company analysis through rigorous assessment of industry landscape, demand forecasting, customer segmentation, product positioning, pricing strategies, competitor benchmarking, and emerging trends. Synthesize complex information into clear, actionable deliverables to enable data-driven decision making.
Project Management: Manage designated research projects end-to-end, including developing project plans, managing timelines, overseeing data collection and analysis, reviewing deliverables, and ensuring on-time delivery per client requirements and quality standards.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with clients, Zenworx leadership, and internal teams to understand business objectives, clarify project goals, provide status updates, solicit feedback, and deliver strategic recommendations.
Reporting and Presentation: Synthesize research findings and develop presentations, reports, dashboards, and other materials to convey insights, recommendations, and next steps to stakeholders.
General Requirements:
- Highly numerate, strong critical thinking and quantitative reasoning
- Good commercial acumen - candidate should have a strong interest in business and finance and have a good understanding of general business dynamics (including an understanding of the fundamentals of micro and macroeconomics etc.)
- Fluent English, with excellent oral, aural and written command of the language
- Strong attention to detail - incl. spelling, grammar, consistent formatting etc.
General Market Analysis:
- Understanding of general business theory and the basics of economics
- The candidate should be able to perform a basic market review where the relevant public information is available (or summarize relevant data from a report) - e.g. total market size (sales & volume), market growth rates, overview of the key customers and suppliers, changes in share over time, barriers to entry, elements of competitive advantage or differentiation, market segmentation etc.
IT/Systems/Tools Capabilities:
- Expert proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint and Word)
- Ability to create reports or presentations to a professional standard (including creation of charts, data tables and other appropriate graphics)
- Ability to write well-structured memos, including the use of a table of contents, page breaks, section dividers, indentation, multi-level bullets etc.
- Ability to use all key excel functions, including data tables, indirect cell referencing, lookup functions, simple regression analysis etc.
Information gathering:
- Ability to sort through large volumes of data (experienced using database search tools) and exercising good commercial judgement to extract relevant information - e.g., an ability to review the content of selected company/broker reports to ensure they address the relevant topic/issue and synthesize key findings into short summary note
- Experience using Google Advanced Search, Bloomberg, Capital IQ, Crunchbase, Pitchbook, SEC Filings, RNS (or equivalent systems/sources
