DIGITALFABRIC® CONSULTING is a boutique technology research, enterprise governance, and strategic marketing advisory and consulting firm. We have deep expertise in ICT service management, digital business strategy, transformational marketing, and emerging technologies. We have successfully led the entire lifecycle of Design – Strategize – Implement initiatives for large, complex, and fast-growing organizations.

WHO YOU’ll WORK WITH

Lead Analyst (LA) is a highly acclaimed position in the industry that guides, analyses, and presents a perspective on assessing services, technologies, and providers. The Lead analyst identifies trends and offers a unique viewpoint in reports and research studies. A structured research process allows data interpretation to create actionable insights for (CxO-Level) business leaders. Inside the research study, you will cover the specific region (US/UK/EU) market for respective Technology/Services/Ecosystem/Industry services/and platforms.

• LAs are experienced researchers and excellent authors for the industries/subject areas and emerging technologies.
• They observe the current market trends to develop insights helping enterprise and end-user communities.
• They highlight regional nuances and market behavior in the research/study designs and formulate the methodology to capture information during RFI and briefings.
• LAs are aware of the markets and can foresee technology trajectories to map and recommend positioning to the providers and end-users. As a result, they are thought leaders and confident on stage, and they get quoted in the media.

 

PROFILE KEY CHARACTERISTICS

• The profile must have an impressive professional background with international exposure.
• Exhibit a solid experiential career path representing expertise in the respective industries/subject.
• Proven experience in technical and business writing with good knowledge of Microsoft office suite.
• Analytical, articulative, and conversational skills to engage with the CXO community to conduct workshops and custom projects.
• Must have a comprehensive view of the latest trends and developments in the industry’s service provider, technology, and software (platforms).

TIME & SCHEDULE:

The duration of the research project (Study) will be around 3-4 months, with an average of two hours a day of effort.

WORK DELIVERY MODE:  

Virtual office. A laptop on request.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Coordinate / align research efforts with all other applicable regions LA’s: The role as Regional Lead will require interactions with research client organizations advisors on the Quality and Consistency Review & Quality Team (QRCT) to integrate their points of view.
• Work with project managers and other study team members to approve schedule and content changes.
• Lead the research effort for a region and maintain end-to-end responsibility for the content of the quadrant reports.
• Support the publicity of studies in the introductory phase and accompany the selling phase with at least one blog post on social media channels such as LinkedIn and Twitter.
• Ensure a cross-regional consistency check of the regional deliveries.

 

LEAD ANALYST – STUDY PHASES & FOCUS AREAS:

• LA’s to strictly adhere to the project timelines and deliverables listed and discussed in the weekly project status calls.
• Work closely and leverage the support extended by Research & Data analyst
  • Support provided to LA: 1 Research analyst & 1 Data analyst
• Participate and contribute to all phases of research
  • Stage 1: Study launch – Brochure & Questionnaire
  • Stage 2: Grid finalization – Provider rating & positioning
  • Stage 3: Report writing – Provider profile & report writing

 

DELIVERABLES FOR RESEARCH REPORTS

1. Report Creation activity: Following are the activities that LA is accountable for the following activities

• • Suggest (updated) quadrant definitions and eligibility criteria that are an essential part of each study brochure – agree to the scope of each quadrant.
  • Create or update survey questions required to assess service providers’ capability and strengths that match assessment criteria found in the brochure and the 7×7 scoring matrix.
  • Recommend/review a list of service providers to be considered in the report.
  • Help encourage and facilitate service provider participation in completing the survey.
  • Conduct briefings and collect marketing collateral with all participating service providers to complete the Research 7×7 scoring matrix.
  • Analyze the survey responses and other data to assign scores to each parameter of the 7×7 scoring matrix.
  • Identify quadrant leaders/rising stars and write a summary page and a brief SWOT for each Leader and Rising Star and additional profiles for others as needed.
  • Respond to, determine acceptance or rejection, and close all provider edits received during the Fact Check process.

2. Manage Research: Guide the research and data teams to conduct secondary research

• • Communicate weekly progress to the Project Manager and collaborate with the team inside the research client organization’s platforms such as Microsoft Teams.
  • Adhere to published milestone dates.
  • Follow actions outlined in the Project Plan as agreed with the Project Manager.
  • Join status calls and briefings during the research phase.
  • Participate in all Sneak Preview meetings to review positioning and SWOTs with providers identified as Leaders or Rising Stars.

 

 

CONTACT: info@digitalfabric.in