Senior Specialist - Research

Marsh McLennan; Gurugram District; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Marsh is seeking a talented Research professional to join our team in Pune. This hybrid role requires being in the office at least three days a week and offers exposure to high-impact risk, reinsurance, and capital advisory work.

You will support senior leaders with background research, data collection, and analyses, contribute to client-ready materials, and help incubate new analytics capabilities using Generative AI. This role builds experience across advisory projects in a global firm.

Qualifications

• Masters in Economics or MBA or related field.
• 4–6 years in strategy advisory or research at a leading firm.
• Experience in Generative AI for day-to-day tasks.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills; Excel proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Assist leadership and project teams with day-to-day tasks to set priorities.
• Support advisory engagements by preparing background research, data collection, and draft analyses.
• Contribute to high-impact projects by producing data summaries, slide material, and basic inputs.
• Help incubate research: gather datasets, run analyses, maintain benchmarking spreadsheets, propose new ideas for innovation.
• Support project management: track timelines, prepare progress updates, coordinate meeting notes and follow-ups.
• Build and maintain stakeholder communications: prepare client-ready materials and respond to routine queries.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Data analysis

Stakeholder communication

Education

Masters in Economics

MBA

Bachelors in Economics

Tools

Excel

Modelling tools

AI tools familiarity

Job description

Company: Marsh

Description

We are seeking a talented individual to join our Research team, part of our risk, reinsurance and capital business at Marsh. This role will be based in Pune. This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office.

We will count on you to:

• Assist senior leadership and project teams with day-to-day tasks to help set and deliver team priorities and initiatives under close guidance.
• Support advisory engagements by preparing background research, data collection, and draft analyses for specialty insurance areas
• Contribute to the delivery of high‑impact projects by producing clear data summaries, slide material, and basic quantitative inputs (spreadsheets, simple models, charts), and by helping to quality‑check outputs.
• Help incubate research and analytics efforts: gather datasets, run preliminary analyses, maintain benchmarking spreadsheets and contribute ideas for innovation and new capability.
• Support project management tasks such as tracking timelines, preparing progress updates, coordinating meeting notes and follow‑ups to ensure timely delivery and quality.
• Build and maintain stakeholder communications by preparing client‑ready materials, drafting emails, and responding to routine client queries under supervision.

What you need to have:

• Masters / Bachelors in Economics or Masters in Business Administration (MBA) / sustainability, corporate responsibility, or finance, environmental science, business administration, sustainability, economics, or related field.
• 4 to 6 years of experience in strategy advisory, research (quantitative and qualitative | secondary) experience, at a leading professional services / consulting firm / market intelligence / research firm
• Experience in consulting projects and conducting independent secondary research strong hands‑on experience in using Generative AI as part of day to day task effectively
• Strong analytical and numerical skills, confident with Excel; basic exposure to modelling or analytics tools is desirable.

Why join our team:

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting and rewarding work
• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues around the world
• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits, belonging and purpose

Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130countries. With annual revenue of over $27billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marsh.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, caste, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one \"anchor\" day per week on which their full team will be together in person.