Senior Analyst – Intelligence & Advisory

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation. At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD. We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD. As a Senior Analyst – Intelligence & Advisory, you will work alongside AHEAD’s consultants and practice teams at the intersection of technology, AI and business - turning ambiguous business questions from consulting teams into structured, hypothesis-led research and clear, actionable recommendations. You will independently own deliverables end-to-end, act as a credible thought partner to onsite consulting and pursuit teams and help raise the quality bar by guiding junior analysts. Your work will directly shape how AHEAD’s consulting teams understand markets, position against competitors, plan for accounts, and win complex enterprise technology deals — and how sharply those insights are communicated to CXO audiences. You will scope and prioritize requests, clarify objectives, and select the right insights on clients, markets, offerings and competition to address them. You will conduct data-driven analyses and turn the results into accurate, client-ready documents, models and charts, and join team problem-solving discussions so that recommendations are actionable and strategically relevant. Beyond individual requests, you will help build and maintain AHEAD’s knowledge assets, databases and proposal and use-case material, using scripts and automation to prepare and validate data, while continuing to grow with the industry. Being part of this exciting team, you will get long term opportunities to lead client discussions with global IT leaders, identify and creatively solve complex problems using both qualitative and quantitative research methods. You will design and build written research, graphics, and tools/frameworks to support clients in critical processes and help organizations transform the way they operate. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Problem Solving & Advisory Support • Translate pursuit, account and client questions into structured problem statements, hypotheses , issue trees and research plans; clarify scope, success criteria and timelines with stakeholders up front. • Apply consulting frameworks and structured thinking (e.g., MECE issue trees, hypothesis-driven analysis, value-chain and maturity assessments, 2x2 prioritization) to break down complex problems, test hypotheses and arrive at defensible answers. • Exercise sound judgement when data is incomplete — triangulate across sources, state assumptions, size the opportunity and flag confidence levels — and always answer the “so what” with a recommendation, not just data. • Apply sound judgement to prioritize what matters: separate signal from noise, assess the reliability of sources and data, challenge assumptions, and clearly call out risks, trade-offs and confidence levels in every recommendation. • Advisory Engagements: Support pursuit and advisory engagements by delivering market insights, competitive benchmarking and strategic guidance that shape deal strategy and client conversations. Research Delivery & Insights • Own end-to-end delivery of assigned items from AHEAD's research product stack — Market Size & Outlook, Industry/Technology POVs, Account Intelligence Packs, Competitive Profiles & Battlecards, Buying Behaviour Analysis, market trend summaries/briefs, Capability Heatmaps, Benchmark Reports and other custom research products where required • S ynthesize intelligence from primary research and secondary sources — tier-1 analyst platforms (e.g., Gartner, Everest Group, Forrester, Nelson Hall, IDC, Avasant), business databases (e.g., Hoovers, AlphaSense ,ZoomInfo) and proprietary sources — into crisp, executive-ready insight narratives. • Track competitor strategies, partnerships, offerings and deal signals, and translate them into actionable pursuit positioning. • Analyze market dynamics across AHEAD-relevant technology areas—including Applications, cloud and infrastructure, application modernization, data and AI, cybersecurity, digital workplace, platform engineering, automation, and emerging technologies—to assess business needs and technology linkages. • Build account-level intelligence to support strategic account planning, C-suite engagement and opportunity identification. • Know how in helping service providers make informed pricing and solutioning decisions — e.g., peer price benchmarking, delivery-improvement and competitive analysis to improve win-rates (Good to have or is a plus) • Validate sources for currency, credibility and relevance; maintain high standards of accuracy and referencing across all deliverables. Reporting, Dashboards & AI-Enabled Research • Design, build and maintain interactive dashboards and reports in Power BI and lightweight HTML dashboards (e.g., competitor trackers, account, and market views, CoE performance reporting) that let stakeholders self-serve insights. • Clean, model and visualize data from multiple sources (Excel, databases, analyst-platform exports); ensure accuracy, clear metric definitions and version control. • Use AI tools and agents to automate and accelerate research workflows — source scanning, competitor monitoring, summarization and first-draft creation — with human validation of