Career

HWA employees are professional analysts and great people:

• They possess strategic vision and consulting skills (facilitating clients with problem solving)
• Able to conduct main analytical/research projects of the center’s specialization themselves (with their own hands) even being at senior positions
• Competent in conducting high-quality qualitative and quantitative research projects, strategic b2b marketing/GR/HR-analysis and managing project groups and contractors
• With high moral principles
• Determined to work on their personal and professional improvement (aiming for development, not self-affirmation)

Facilities available to HWA employees:

• Gaining a sought-after and interesting speciailty/being self-actualized as analysts, experts, consultants (either in the sphere of strategic b2b-marketing and industry analysis or social systems analysis of staff, professional groups, population, labour market)
• Working with large and largest clients on customised projects (not running a report for mass distribution, but developing fit-for-purpose solutions to current issues and strategic tasks of a certain client)
• Specialising on the most interesting from the stand-point of analysis and crisis sustainable industries: infrastructure industries (IT, telecommunications, corporate banking, logistics and transport, electrical energy industry, etc.)
• Reasonable working hours with great work and life balance: presence in the office is not necessary, on-line instruments of project work coordination are actively used, flexible time schedule
• Wages are above average among Russian research and expert centres and comparable to the level of international firms. Wages do not depend on company profit. Significant social package allocations can be spent up to the employees’ choice (education, fitness, VHI, mobile communication)
• Stability: during the macroeconomic crises the center is focused on keeping the team and its welfare. The company passed through the latest crises with profits and revenues growth and team extension
• Career opportunities inside the company depend solely on the employee abilities and performance, not the length of employment, etc. The Main criterion of employees’ performance in the company is the result obtained in solving clients’ problems and tasks
• Possibility to observe the results of the work in the clients’ progress and development
• In-company training system for sharing experience and skills in the form of weekly in-workshops
• Working with intelligent, sane, well-conditioned people

Candidate assessment process:

Stage 1. CV screening, brief phone conversation or preliminary meeting with an HR-manager,

Stage 2. Getting to know - meeting,

Stage 3. Examining candidates’ previous analytical and consulting works,

Stage 4. Meeting for case studying (for all-level candidates - junior to senior),

Stage 5. Meeting with the company partner,

Stage 6. Getting references of previous employers.

Choosing a profession is an important step in a person’s life. In HWA we are proud that our employees love and appreciate their work, and don’t consider their employment as accidental. In our company everyone can become a top-ranked expert in infrastructure branches and influence large and largest companies’ life. Mentor system, adjusted in HWA, helps to coordinate development of junior specialists in the most dynamic way. We have no growth limits; we have experience, effective competition and unflagging opportunities for professional and personal growth.

Available vacancies can be found here:

• EXPERIENCED SPECIALISTS

  Senior analyst, b2b-marketing & branch analysis

  I. Working hours

      a. Regular hours (8 working hours a day),
      b. Start and end of a working day is up to employees,
      c. Presence in the office is not necessary, besides taking part in off-board meetings, in-company sessions, appointed by chiefs,
        in-company training,
      d. Being on-line in project and corporate charts from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. during working day is obligatory.

  II. Responsibilities

      a. Partial project managing on branch b2b marketing,
      b. Taking part in developing analysis toolkits (research structure, guide for in-depth interview, questionnaires, selection project, informational processing models),
      c. Detailed evaluation of commercial offers,
      d. Conducting desk research on infrastructure markets (Russian and foreign ones),
      e. Conducting in-depth interviews with top managers of companies under study, civil servants, industry experts, client representatives,
      f. Preparing analytical notes, reports and presentations:
         - Conducting complex branch, marketing analysis (corporate clients’ loyalty, competition focus, demand prospects and specialities, branding and positioning, managing corporate products and services characteristics),
         - Conducting GR-analysis: review of peculiar properties and prospects in the branch of government regulations.

  Project head manager, b2b-marketing and branch analysis

  I. Working hours

      a. Regular hours (8 working hours a day),
      b. Start and finish working day up to employees,
      c. Presence in the office is not necessary, besides taking part in off-board meetings, in-company sessions, appointed by chiefs,
         in-company training,
      d. Being on-line in project and corporate charts from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. during working day is obligatory.

  II. Responsibilities

     a. Taking part in meetings with clients on content part of the project before starting. Case management during the project (day-to-day information, current coordination, consultancy),
      b. Making up terms of references, commercial offers basing on the information about client’s needs),
      c. Premeditation organising scheme of the project, project planning and dividing responsibilities between project team members,
      d. Building of one’s own project team, it and its members further development,
      e. Managing projects on branch b2b marketing, control of project realisation on each stage:
         - Coordination, current control of team, contracting organisations,
         - Conducting desk research on infrastructure markets (Russian and foreign sources),
         - Organising in-depth interviews with top managers, mid-level managers and specialists of companies under study,
         - Organising focus group carrying out.
      f. Conducting in-depth interviews with top managers of companies under study, civil servants, industry experts, client representatives,
      g. Preparing analytical notes, reports and presentations:
         - Conducting complex branch, marketing analysis (corporate clients’ loyalty, competition focus, demand prospects and specialities,
            branding and positioning, managing corporate products and services characteristics),
         - Conducting GR-analysis: review of peculiar properties and prospects in the branch of government regulations.

• JUNIOR SPECIALIST AND STUDENTS

  HeadWork Analytics is delighted to invite you to take part in undertaking internship competition for following programmes:

  1. Strategic b2b marketing

  •     Strategic analysis and b2b researches of infrastructure and new technologies services market outlets;
  •     Corporate clients loyalty audit;
  •     Multi-criteria segmentation of B2B markets; profiling of client groups and people responsible for making decisions on internal procurement;
  •     Estimate scope and capacity of infrastructure and hi-tech markets; demand forecast;
  •     Restructuring of competitors’ market strategies at B2B market;
  •     Analysis of best international practices;
  •     Sales schemes analysis and research of potential intermedia – partners on B2B sales;
  •     Developing of application programmes and corporate marketing strategy (branding and positioning, PR, direct sales, distribution and product offer, managing loyalty).

  2. Corporate social systems analysis

  We invite senior students with speciality on economics, management, applied mathematics, marketing, sociology. During the internship, you will solve following analytical and expert tasks:

  •     Loyalty and stuff satisfaction audit;
  •     Define level and structure of motivation and involvement;
  •     Intercommunication efficiency audit;
  •     Corporate social strain monitoring;
  •     Review of International experience, best practices in managing staff;
  •     Labour market research, employer brand audit;
  •     Upgrading of intercommunication managing system;
  •     Разработка программ управления социальными рисками при реализации реформ управления персоналом.

  INTERNSHIP PERIOD MADE ROUND.

  Stage 1 - shortlist the CV.

  Stage 2 - case study.

  Stage 3 - face-to-face interview with a branch manager in the company office.

  Wages are offered according to the shortlisting, letters of internship are given. In case of successful internship you will have an opportunity to become a part of professional HeadWork Analytics team (as a permanent employee of the Centre).