Senior Associate at Stears

Your Role at Stears

• You will work with a core team of consultants using data and insights to solve clients’ problems.
• These clients are the world’s largest and most impactful policy and investment decision-makers.
• At Stears, you will help them diagnose complex problems, gain a deep and accurate understanding of issues, opportunities and industry, and develop recommendations.
• You will collaborate across functional teams such as Design, Data Analytics, Growth, Insights and Senior Management to deliver outputs. 

You will:

• Leverage critical thinking frameworks and mental models to solve—sometimes new and ambiguous—problems.
• Design and execute project methodologies for research, data and insights projects, including scoping problems, synthesising information and extracting clear insights, takeaways and recommendations.
• Work in project teams and with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality deliverables
• Communicate effectively with all audiences, including senior leaders, in a professional manner
• Manage and maintain good relationships with internal and external stakeholders and clients
• Manage resources to balance multiple deliverables and meet client and internal commitments

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree and a minimum of 3 years of work experience in a structured work environment or an advanced Master’s degree with 1+ years of experience. Previous work experience in an operational, consulting, research or other related role is preferred.
• Demonstrable track record of structuring problems, synthesising information and research data into relevant and actionable outputs understandable by non-technical stakeholders, ideally in a professional environment
• High analytical and problem-solving skills. Must be able to demonstrate the ability to apply critical thinking to solve ambiguous problems
• Ability to spot trends in data, aggregate, disaggregate, compare and combine datasets to answer questions. Ease using Excel and other basic statistical tools is a plus
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team 
• Experience presenting to professional audiences and senior leaders 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and local languages, as required
• Ability to manage, organise and coordinate the different activities involved in a project.