Associate Consultant

Forrester is hiring for the role of Associate Consultant! 

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Act as program manager for a portfolio of projects. Ensure projects are delivered on time and with high quality.
• Plan, collect, and analyze quantitative and qualitative data through client interviews, surveys, and/or other data sources.
• Communicate with clients and internal partners clearly and concisely in a timely manner.
• Synthesize insights and recommendations from analyses into structured, succinct client deliverables in areas including business case/value, thought leadership, maturity assessment, transformation roadmap, operating model design, etc.
• Coordinate internal and external resources, contributing, and editing to support the creation of project deliverables (studies, workshops, presentations, interview guides, and infographics).
• Focus on project outcomes and client value, including responsibility for overall polishing/editing of project deliverables, to contribute to client satisfaction and project quality.
• Manage third-party providers, including custom research vendors, translations vendors, etc.
• Lead project management tasks across strategy and content marketing projects.
• Program manage India advisory cases, helping manage scope, analyst content, and timelines for delivery effectively.
• Consistently contribute to internal initiatives of the consulting practice that help optimize its operations, global collaborations and growth.
• Have a client-centric and positive attitude that helps build trust among clients and the Forrester ecosystem.

Requirements:

• A bachelor’s degree or master’s/MBA degree and a strong academic record.
• Experience in strategy/management consulting or a similar role; a formal project management experience or training.
• Experience working with subject matter experts with deep content knowledge.
• Structured verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Proficiency with PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.
• An understanding of business, technology, marketing, research, sales, and customer experience concepts.
• Excellence in problem solving; creating insights from structured or unstructured inputs (qualitative and quantitative); and analyzing multiple disparate white paper/research inputs, extracting key messages, and synthesizing a point of view.
• Effective multitasking and collaboration (internally and externally) under pressure in different, dynamic work environments.
• The ability to prioritize tasks and work at ease around senior business professionals.
• The passion to develop a strategy/management consulting career.
• Willingness to travel within India for milestone client presentations as needed.