Senior Associate - Sector Research
MENA Research Partners
Total years of experience :12 years, 9 Months
- Conducting market assessments/feasibility studies on key sectors as well as trending niche industries across MENA for corporations & global management consulting firms.
- Producing sector mapping reports & country prioritization/macroeconomic overviews across GCC, Africa & LATAM, to support leading regional private equity firms in their investment decisions. (Major sectors covered: Healthcare, F&B, Retail, Real Estate, Construction, Technology).
- Undertaking economic models to evaluate the market potential for new entrants.
- Initiating concept validation to identify market gap/appetite for new business ideas.
- Handling research requests; acting as the contact point with clients; mentoring analysts.
- Contributed to the creation of a web based portal that gives users access to 100K+ datasets and analysis/visualization tools.
- Maintained and oversaw the expansion of the economic database.
- Monitored team performance; set targets to meet business objectives; trained analysts.
- Initiated research on the scope of coverage and created a database of top indicators for 12 MENA countries.
- Assisted the CTO in the creation and the feedback process of internal data management systems.
- Published monthly economic snapshots using charts/infographics in Lebanon’s prominent business magazines.
