Insights & Private Equity, (Senior) Associate

About Dialectica: Shaping Global Decisions

Dialectica is a high-growth B2B information services firm that serves the world's top consulting, investment and largest corporate businesses, by enabling them to gather real-time information and insights from industry experts across various markets, industries, and regions.

Driven by our mission to achieve unparalleled customer recognition, we are developing the most trusted and innovative knowledge-sharing platform in the world.

Dialectica has been recognized by the Financial Times as one of Europe's fastest-growing companies for 5 consecutive years, a Top Employer for Recent Graduates by The Career Directory in Canada and a Best Workplace.

We believe in supporting our people to do their best work and grow, and building a dynamic, empowering, and respectful workplace is core to our purpose: Accelerate the shift to a prosperous society by empowering better decision-making.

For more information, visit dialectica.io 

About the Insights & Private Equity Team

Our Insights & Private Equity team is transforming the way investors, corporates and consultancies obtain curated knowledge to inform business strategy. Working on-demand and side by side to our expert interviews and survey offerings, our Insights & Private Equity team delivers tailored solutions to a sophisticated global client base. Whether we are helping a private equity firm prioritize their deal pipeline or supporting a technology corporate conduct voice of customer research for their game changing new product, in the Insights & Private Equity team you will utilize the power of the Dialectica services offering to help answer our clients most pressing strategic business problems.

Working in a multinational, fast-moving and innovative environment, you will be given the opportunity to work and take responsibilities on challenging projects, gain exposure to the most interesting sectors of the global economy and drive impact for a roster of blue-chip global clients.

About the Role 

The Insights & Private Equity team is experiencing strong growth, resulting in opportunities for talented and ambitious individuals excited to develop their commercial acumen, strategic thinking, analytical skills and client service capabilities. As a member of our Insights & Private Equity team, you will apply your technical skills across a spectrum of services including private equity transactions and corporate intelligence.

Indicative responsibilities shall include:

• Project delivery

Playing a key role in end-to-end project delivery; developing expert discussion guides and surveys based on client needs.

Working alongside with the Client Service Team colleagues on expert engagement and then leading insights generation by conducting expert interviews and overseeing survey fielding. You will then summarize your insights into client ready deliverables in collaboration with senior members of the team.

• Business development

Contribute to all aspects of business origination, including pitches and presentations.

Attend meetings with clients to help sell work and work in an environment operating under tight timeframes and demands.

• Content & Practice Development

Contributing to content and practice development in the Insights & Private Equity team. For example, marketing materials, sector expertise initiatives etc.

Requirements

What We Look For

At Dialectica, we don’t believe in a “one size fits all” approach to hiring. We welcome candidates with different experiences and backgrounds. Here are some qualities that many of our successful applicants possess:

• Bachelor's or higher University degrees;
• From 6 months - 3 years of experience at top-tier strategy consulting firms (e.g. McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Big 4);
• You have a proven track record of successfully delivering projects in due diligence/transactions, demonstrating your ability to manage project teams and vendors while producing and reviewing high-calibre reports, papers, and presentations;
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to link analysis to financial impact, and understand the implications of findings to client strategy;
• Strong team participation skills, particularly teams with diverse skills and backgrounds, coupled with the ability to coach and mentor others;
• Excellent problem-solving skills;
• Strong work initiative and the ability to adapt to new challenges and ideas;
• Professionalism and consistency in approach to client work, internal business and practice development.

Benefits

• Highly attractive compensation package featuring monthly allowances and yearly bonuses;
• Comprehensive private medical insurance and a competitive savings plan;
• Sponsored health and wellness programs as well as team-building activities;
• Flexible hybrid working environment;
• Opportunities to develop transferable skills including research, sales, negotiation, business savvy, professional communication, and time and project management;
• A unique chance to join as one of the initial members of a growing team with regional and international outreach in relation to private equity clients, collaborating alongside other elite global professionals;
• Possibility to live and work in Athens, Montreal, or Bogota through our exchange program;
• Engage in a collaborative and dynamic environment with diverse backgrounds in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City.