Senior Consultant

GlobalData Plc; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

GlobalData plc is seeking a Senior Consultant to join the Consulting Team in Hyderabad. You will own quantitative workstreams, including market sizing, forecasting, and scenario modelling across client engagements for Consumer, Retail, and other sectors.

The role emphasizes strong analytical ability, structured thinking, and the use of AI tools to speed up desk research and modelling tasks. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is required.

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years in consulting, market research, or analytical roles with data modelling exposure.
• Strong Excel skills (lookups, pivot tables) and data-model familiarity.
• Excellent quantitative reasoning with multi-source data.
• Clear written and verbal communication for clients and stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring junior staff or analysts.

Responsibilities

• Lead data modelling workstreams — market sizing, demand forecasting, scenario analysis in Excel.
• Shape analytical frameworks and methodology with Consulting Directors.
• Design and quality-review primary/secondary research feeding models.
• Translate findings into actionable client recommendations.
• Mentor junior consultants and analysts on a workstream basis.
• Create dashboards or visuals for clients and internal stakeholders.

Skills

Consulting experience

Excel proficiency

Analytical reasoning

Communication skills

Mentoring

AI tools usage

Power BI knowledge

Tools

Power BI

Python

SQL

AI tools (Claude/ChatGPT)

Job description

Job Description:

Position: Senior Consultant

Team: Consulting

Location: Hyderabad

About Us

GlobalData is a productivity and intelligence platform that empowers leaders to act decisively in a world of complexity and change.

By uniting proprietary data, human expertise, and purpose-built AI into a single, connected platform, we help organizations see what's coming, move faster, and lead with confidence.

Our solutions are used by over 5,000 organizations across the world's largest industries, delivering tailored intelligence that supports strategic planning, innovation, risk management, and sustainable growth.

Data that goes deeper

Proprietary coverage of 95% of global GDP, synthesized in real time from internal and external sources, aligned under a single business taxonomy - giving you earlier insight, unified context, and decisions you can trust.

Experts Who Turn Insight Into Impact

Human insights that AI alone can't replicate, from industry specialists and strategic advisors, embedded in your workflows to decode complexity and guide high-value action.

AI that moves smarter & faster

AI that doesn't just think, but acts - forecasting market moves, surfacing answers in seconds, and freeing your teams to focus on execution when timing matters most.

Workflow solutions

Together, our six solutions turn intelligence into action, helping every team make smarter, faster decisions. Each solution focuses on the decisions that matter most, driving measurable impact.

Role Overview

GlobalData’s Consulting Team to strengthen our Data Science team within Consumer Consulting. This is a senior, hands-on role owning quantitative workstreams — market sizing, forecasting and scenario modelling — across custom, strategy-led consulting engagements for clients spanning Consumer, Food & Beverage, Packaging, Retail, Automotive, Agriculture and other verticals. We are looking first for strong general analytical ability, structured thinking and consulting judgement; ability to reason clearly about data and client problems, and to pick up new tools quickly.

What We Are Looking For

• 5-8+ of experience in consulting, market research, or a strongly analytical commercial role, with meaningful exposure to data modelling or market sizing work.
• Strong Excel skills (lookups, pivot tables, structured spreadsheet design) and clear comfort building or working within a data model.
• Strong general analytical and quantitative reasoning — able to work with imperfect, multi-source data, spot inconsistencies, and defend assumptions.
• Good written and verbal communication skills; able to present findings clearly, including to clients or senior stakeholders.
• Some experience — or clear potential and willingness — to review work and mentor junior consultants or analysts.
• Prior experience using AI tools (e.g. Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot) in day-to-day research and modelling work
• Basic familiarity with a dashboarding or data-visualisation tool (Power BI or similar) is helpful
• Exposure to any of Consumer, Foodservice, Packaging, Retail, Automotive or Agriculture sectors is a plus, but not essential — genuine interest in learning a sector matters more than prior coverage of it.

Good To Have

• Working knowledge of Python and/or SQL for data manipulation.
• Experience contributing to forecasting models that use macroeconomic or demographic drivers.
• Experience designing primary research instruments (surveys, discussion guides, store audits) or briefing external field agencies.
• Basic ability to read and interpret company financial statements (P&L, balance sheet, annual/quarterly filings).
• Prior exposure to using AI/automation to speed up secondary desk research or report generation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead data modelling workstreams — market sizing, demand forecasting, scenario analysis — primarily in Excel, turning primary and secondary data into clear, defensible, client-ready outputs.
• Shape analytical frameworks and methodology for consulting engagements (sizing logic, driver trees, cross-checks), in partnership with Consulting Directors.
• Contribute to the design and quality review of primary and secondary research — surveys, store audits, desk research — that feeds into models and deliverables.
• Partner with clients and Consulting Directors to interpret findings and translate analysis into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Review and quality-control the analytical work of consultants and analysts; help set a consistent standard of rigour and structure across the team.li>
• Manage and mentor junior consultants and analysts on a workstream basis, developing their modelling and consulting skills.
• Contribute to report writing and deliverable narratives, ensuring outputs are client-ready and consistent with GlobalData's standards.
• Use, and help the team adopt, AI tools and simple automation to speed up desk research and modelling tasks (e.g. summarising industry reports, structuring SKU or pricing data, drafting survey questions) — training and support will be provided to build this up on the job.
• Help translate model outputs into simple dashboards or visual summaries for clients and internal stakeholders, using whatever tools you're comfortable with (Excel, Power BI, or similar).
• Work cross-functionally with other verticals to bring data-science thinking into broader consulting solutions and proposals.

Commitment To D&I And EEO

We believe strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed. As such, GlobalData is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. GlobalData is determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favorable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.