Key Focus: Automotive Aftermarket

• Keep pace with global trends in, and not limited to, products, companies, strategies, technology developments, R&D focus areas and business models
• Understand business implications of technology / product innovations and /or related initiatives
• Identify and evaluate industry best practices in technology / product innovations & technology leadership.
• Identify and evaluate unique industry strategies in technology/product/processes that present ideal business cases
• Demand Analysis of replacement for different product categories

Profile Expectations:

• Mine, Analyze, Synthesize volumes of data towards addressing specific business objectives
• Market forecasting, best practices understanding, competition bench marking, product mapping, technology forecasting, technology bench marking
• Formulate technology roadmaps; recommend new areas of growth in industry, new business opportunities for stakeholders etc.

Profile Responsibilities:

• Data Collection through secondary and primary research (with OEMs, Dealers, Distributors, Mechanics, Corporates, Govt. Agencies, academia, industry associations, investors etc.,)
• Contribution to technology news alerts, syndicated and/or custom market research, technology reports, analyst briefings, media / press articles

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to apply foresight to develop strong visionary and out-of-the-box content
• Adept in Information Gathering; Information Processing
• Exposure to Data analysis, data mining, decision/conclusion making basis the data reading/analysis
• Experience of working on statistical tools and forecasting models
• Excellent Oral & Written Communication Skills
• Flair for Creative Problem Solving; Logical Reasoning; Analytical Thinking; Strategic orientation
• Good grounding in the Microsoft Office Suite
• Organized, collaborative and proactive team player with good sense of prioritization of time and multiple tasks
• Comfortable with ambiguity
• Adaptable to accommodate changes in work timing’s to suit global client expectations
• Knowledge of international languages is a plus

• Bachelors in Science or other technical courses along with 3 to 5 years of research and consulting experience

Or

• Bachelors in Mechanical/ Production/ Industrial/ Electronics engineering along with 3 to 5 years of research and consulting experience