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Either Milton Keynes, UK; or Ann Arbor, USA

Flexible working – work from office and home to suit you and the business

Salary Range: £80,000 - 95,000 per annum DOE + benefits

Are you eager to develop yourself and your team? Is your focus and drive to provide accurate and clear market intelligence and strategic guidance on today’s CASES technologies? Do you want to work in a fast-paced technical environment where constant change, the need to draw accurate analysis and insights for our clients is the daily challenge? Yes? Then we have just the role for you...

ABOUT YOU

• Experienced in managing the varied demands of clients and delivering multiple market intelligence and strategic consulting projects simultaneously with the resources available
• Able to quickly understand the key business drivers and barriers for innovative technologies and ecosystems within CASES (Connected, Autonomous, Shared Mobility, Electrification, Security) domains

• Can quickly grasp complex technical technologies and share the knowledge in a way that helps the team deliver accurate and insightful research and analysis
• Driven to achieve challenging goals by motivating, developing and engaging others
• Deliver accurate and insightful analysis that meets the project brief and delights the client
• Connect easily with clients and build trust
• Commercially aware, and motivated to achieve revenue and profitability targets

• Live SBD’s values and act as a positive role model to others
• Build strong inter-department relationships and a spirit of cooperation between other teams
• Ability to plan and adapt work schedules to achieve on time delivery of projects with short lead times whilst meeting individual team member development needs
• Well-developed knowledge of in-market supplier products, ecosystem and technology trends
• Creative flair and ability to turn analysis into client-friendly digestible deliverables

• Ability to research and understand a topic at a high level in short timeframes
• Judgement to decide on priorities when projects compete for the same resources

A DAY IN THE LIFE

This client-focused Consulting Manager role will expose you to an exciting variety of project areas, providing continuous learning opportunities for you and your team.

• Lead proposal support, resource estimating and project delivery within nominated Service Offering areas
• Coordinate and develop teams to deliver projects on time and plan
• Understand and develop the capabilities and competencies of your team so that you’re confident that commitments made in project proposals can be delivered upon
• Create/deliver executive-level project reports & briefings on a wide range of CASE topics
• Develop standardized templates and methodologies for nominated Service Offerings to ensure consistency and achieve target profitability ratio

• Support Sales & Marketing teams by providing promotional materials that make the value proposition of the Service Offerings easier to explain & sell to clients

WHY SBD AUTOMOTIVE

SBD Automotive has been established for 25 years. We are a global automotive research and consulting organization employing talented individuals in six regions with a worldwide customer base. Our research report library covers market intelligence, industry guides, future trend and consumer experience reports in the areas of connected cars, ADAS and autonomy, software defined vehicles, mobility, EV’s and cybersecurity; providing our customers with the data, analysis and insight they need to keep up to date with the pace of change in the automotive sector.

• Join us in an entrepreneurial environment and help to shape the future relationship between people and cars

• SBD has teams in six locations: China, Germany, India, Japan, UK, and USA. Be a part of a global outward mix of people and growth opportunities
• There is no limit on where a career at SBD can take you, including opportunities to travel and work around the globe
• Our values mean that we care about our people, our clients and our personal growth and development
• Benefits may include Pension, Private Health Care, Health Cash Plan, Life Assurance, (depending on location); and opportunities for Equity Sharing
• Employee and client satisfaction are key to being the #1 automotive market research and consultancy firm; this is at the forefront of everything we do.

Interested? Please apply with your CV and Cover letter

SBD Automotive is an Equal Opportunities employer

SBD uses preferred agencies for recruitment, so please no agency applications