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Colombo, Sri Lanka - Director Operations
Colombo, Sri Lanka - Data Analyst
Colombo, Sri Lanka - Business Analyst
Colombo, Sri Lanka - Project Manager
Position Overview
Stax provides our clients with insightful analyses and recommendations regarding market and investment opportunities, competitive threats, customer segmentation strategies, channel conflicts and other market-facing issues. Underlying our insights are committed efforts of many with precision, accuracy & excellence. We are seeking a strategic thinker with significant experience managing cross functional teams, attending to multi disciplinary activities and who enjoys the challenging nature of overall management. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is looking for significant exposure across our offices.
Responsibilities
- Operational Management
- Manage day-to-day operations of Colombo office and team.
- Capacity and pipeline planning and workload balancing.
- Reporting to Colombo Managing Director, and global COO & CFO.
- Office expansion/ infrastructure and development.
Financial management
- Forecasting and allocating budgets.
- Revenue generation and utilization.
- Accounting and Audits.
- Payroll, vendor payments, statutory deductions and filings.
Human resources and recruiting
- Manage Colombo office growth plans and team structures.
- Recruiting and retention strategies.
- HR functions and structuring of benefits/ training plans.
Knowledge Management/ IT team management
- Develop and maintain in-house KM system.
- Formulate overall IT strategy for Colombo office.
- Use of technology for project delivery (client and inter-office).
Legal function
- Negotiate contracts with vendors (local/ international).
- Liaise with attorneys to draft agreements.
Requirements & experience
- Ideal candidate should be between 30 - 40 years of age, with 7 years of managerial level experience.
- Overseas experience in an operational role will (especially in the US) will be desired.
- MBA or equivalent qualification is a must.
Prerequisites
- Strong management, leadership and communication skills.
- Flexible, committed.
To Apply
Interested candidates should send a cover letter and resume to colombo@stax.com.
About Stax
Stax helps corporate clients improve performance, investment firms improve their odds when making investment decisions, and government agencies initiate and improve programs. We answer complex problems and analyze targeted issues for corporate strategy, M&A, operational improvements, product development, marketing and advertising. Stax’s specialty is working with client teams to frame issues, gathering and analyzing data, developing insights based on facts and providing actionable answers in relatively short timeframes.
Stax clients range from Fortune 500 companies, to the largest private equity firms in the world and their portfolio companies. Clients describe Stax as both innovative and practical. We provide actionable answers, quickly and cost effectively. Clients describe Stax people as smart, engaged, easy to work with, and Stax overall as a “roll up your sleeves firm.”
Our team of 45+ consulting professionals and support staff are based in Cambridge, Chicago, New York and Colombo, Sri Lanka. The environment in which we work is an entrepreneurial, casual and collegial one. Stax is a nimble, adaptable firm - not a rigid, hierarchical one. We hire smart, productive people who enjoy working together in a small, well-knitted team, and have a lot of fun in the process.
Position Overview
The Data Analytics team specializes in conducting data driven, quantitative analysis on behalf of our clients. The data is generated via a mix of creative primary research techniques (e.g., phone surveys, online/web surveys), internal customer databases, and secondary research sources (e.g., financial filings of public companies).
Responsibilities
- Be able to extract data from various databases, format and clean data
- Generate insights from the data and present in relevant charts and graphs to be incorporated into project reports.
- Build simple solutions using programming tools such as VB, Excel Macros and web based technologies
Qualifications
- An undergraduate degree or equivalent qualification in a computer science related field.
- Knowledge in relational databases such as MySQL, Oracle and SQL server.
- Advanced level knowledge on SQL queries for data manipulation and extraction.
- Exposure to data mining and data warehousing technologies would be highly desired.
- Experience in an high level programming language such as Visual Basic or Java as well as experience in web-based application building is required.
- A very high level proficiency in Microsoft Excel is required while exposure to statistical tools such as SPSS and SAS will be very advantageous.
- Prior work experience in a similar role is not mandatory, but a clear analytical mindset, the desire to learn and the willingness to work with minimal supervision is an absolute must.
- Exposure to data-driven technologies and information systems is essential.
To Apply
Interested candidates should send a cover letter and resume to colombo@stax.com.
About Stax
Stax helps corporate clients improve performance, investment firms improve their odds when making investment decisions, and government agencies initiate and improve programs. We answer complex problems and analyze targeted issues for corporate strategy, M&A, operational improvements, product development, marketing and advertising. Stax’s specialty is working with client teams to frame issues, gathering and analyzing data, developing insights based on facts and providing actionable answers in relatively short timeframes.
Stax clients range from Fortune 500 companies, to the largest private equity firms in the world and their portfolio companies. Clients describe Stax as both innovative and practical. We provide actionable answers, quickly and cost effectively. Clients describe Stax people as smart, engaged, easy to work with, and Stax overall as a “roll up your sleeves firm.”
Our team of 45+ consulting professionals and support staff are based in Cambridge, Chicago, New York and Colombo, Sri Lanka. The environment in which we work is an entrepreneurial, casual and collegial one. Stax is a nimble, adaptable firm - not a rigid, hierarchical one. We hire smart, productive people who enjoy working together in a small, well-knitted team, and have a lot of fun in the process.
Position Overview
Stax reports provide our clients with insightful analyses and recommendations regarding market and investment opportunities, competitive threats, customer segmentation strategies, channel conflicts and other market-facing issues. Underlying these reports are creative and rigorous research methodologies that leverage both primary and secondary sources. We are seeking creative and strategic researchers to provide in-depth research across all industry areas to support client work.
Responsibilities
- Respond to research requests from Stax teams and clients on a timely basis.
- Generate "reading packs" in response to research requests that accurately address the key issues/needs.
- Summarize research findings and implications to support project and sales teams.
- Proactively identify and update secondary research sources for use on projects.
- Ensure that the quality and timeliness of deliverables meet client expectations
- Develop insights from data, and write components of research reports that address key issues.
- Gather, review and analyze data generated from primary and secondary research sources.
- Support ongoing business intelligence, competitive and best practice efforts.
- Conduct independent research in support of project objectives. For example, conducting in-depth interviews with industry experts.
- Conduct analysis, interpret results and synthesize recommendations.
- Support Directors, Managers and Senior Analysts to conduct market sizing, customer segmentation and competitive landscape studies on projects.
Qualifications
- Undergraduate degree preferably in Economics, Marketing or Finance. A Masters degree is highly desirable.
- Knowledge of online business research using Dialog, Factiva/LexisNexis, and related services.
- Prior international experience (professional or academic) is highly desirable.
- Quantitative research skills highly desirable.
- Persistence and creativity in identifying and extracting data and information from published sources.
- Ability to search for information creatively and cost-effectively, and juggle multiple quick-turnaround projects under tight deadlines.
- Superior written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent strategic thinking, understanding of business research and analysis.
To Apply
Interested candidates should send a cover letter and resume to colombo@stax.com.
About Stax
Stax helps corporate clients improve performance, investment firms improve their odds when making investment decisions, and government agencies initiate and improve programs. We answer complex problems and analyze targeted issues for corporate strategy, M&A, operational improvements, product development, marketing and advertising. Stax’s specialty is working with client teams to frame issues, gathering and analyzing data, developing insights based on facts and providing actionable answers in relatively short timeframes.
Stax clients range from Fortune 500 companies, to the largest private equity firms in the world and their portfolio companies. Clients describe Stax as both innovative and practical. We provide actionable answers, quickly and cost effectively. Clients describe Stax people as smart, engaged, easy to work with, and Stax overall as a “roll up your sleeves firm.”
Our team of 45+ consulting professionals and support staff are based in Cambridge, Chicago, New York and Colombo, Sri Lanka. The environment in which we work is an entrepreneurial, casual and collegial one. Stax is a nimble, adaptable firm - not a rigid, hierarchical one. We hire smart, productive people who enjoy working together in a small, well-knitted team, and have a lot of fun in the process.
Position Overview
Stax reports provide our clients with insightful analyses and recommendations regarding market and investment opportunities, competitive threats, customer segmentation strategies, channel conflicts and other market-facing issues. Underlying these reports are creative and rigorous research methodologies that leverage both primary and secondary sources. We are seeking creative and strategic thinkers with significant experience managing, reviewing and analyzing multiple data streams, and generating reports and recommendations for clients. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is looking for significant exposure across a diverse client base.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the Stax Director overseeing the project, and be responsible for all aspects of project supervision including work plan development, team oversight, project deliverables, and client communications.
- Serve as project manager and team leader for Stax's business research and consulting project work.
- Manage and guide analysts and researchers on project teams
- Design relevant analyses, manage project scope, and resource utilization on client engagements.
- Quality control and review analysis, and client deliverables
- Interpret results, and communicate them effectively via written reports and verbally
- Ensure that the quality and timeliness of deliverables meet client expectations
- Responsibilities will also include some client development.
Qualifications
- MBA or equivalent, and at least 5 years relevant experience in strategy consulting, investment banking, market research or corporate advisory roles; out of which a minimum of 3 years proven experience in program or project management.
- Experience in report writing & story telling & proficiency in PowerPoint and Word.
- Experience working with the private equity community a plus.
- Quantitative research skills highly desirable.
- Experience managing, coaching, and developing analysts to enhance performance and encourage professional development.
- Prior international experience (professional or academic) is highly desirable.
- Ability to own, manage and deliver engagements on research and/or consulting project work.
- Strong project, client management, leadership and communication skills.
- Excellent strategic thinking, understanding of business research and analysis.
- Effective communication skills, hard worker, flexible, committed.
To Apply
Interested candidates should send a cover letter and resume to colombo@stax.com.
