Head of Research group/Business development department

The role: Manage Research function and people: Setting up a structure of Research group, defining priorities and key tasks; Developing and improving Research function; Setting up a scheme of Research group and PwC professional staff collaboration; Coordinating research group, supervising research specialists; Coordinating international/ regional/ local research projects organised by marketing managers (though leadership projects) in collaboration with Marketing team; Specific research on the segment (Oil&Gas, Metals&Mining, Technology&Communications, Banking, Capital Projects&Infrastructure). Provide business research and specific strategic research to internal clients. Setting up a function of internal research of PwC clients and targets, participating in company s strategy development; Providing information / market research support to PwC Partners and staff including industries and sectors analysis, company information search, statistical data, analytical report search; Regular monitoring and analysis of competitor activities: press and internet monitoring, marketing activities analysis, providing competitor information on request of PwC partners and industry leaders. Knowledge management (KM): Choosing / providing assistance in selection of information providers, briefing subcontractor research agencies, developing projects methodology, supervising their work, quality control, contract arrangement; Consulting PwC staff on available information sources and efficient research techniques, conducting trainings on PwC information sources; Communicating and organizing knowledge exchange with PwC global research and KM community; Managing a process of collecting, filtering, structuring and updating information in internal databases; Analysing PwC information needs. The requirements: 5+ years of experience in analytics and research; 2+ years of management experience; Education economics, mathematics, statistics, sociology, finance; Preference to a specialist with a specific knowledge in one of the following sectors Oil&Gas/Energy, Metals&Mining, Banking.