Position summary
The Senior Team Manager leads the Energy & Industrials Expert Content team and is accountable for its portfolio direction, research quality, talent development and delivery. The role converts market and client demand into coverage priorities, assigns topic ownership across sub-sector and asset-class subject matter experts, manages capacity, and develops the team’s sector expertise, ideation, research judgment and interviewing capabilities.
The role requires deep knowledge of Energy & Industrials, working knowledge of adjacent sectors, a broad understanding of relevant asset classes and strong investor-oriented judgment. The Senior Team Manager interprets earnings calls, management commentary, analyst questions and market developments; connects insights across the team’s work; and uses that perspective to originate differentiated research concepts, synthesis products and selected expert conversations.
Location: Gurugram, India
Key responsibilities:
Coverage strategy and prioritization
- Set and maintain the coverage roadmap for the Energy & Industrials team, including priority coverage areas, companies, themes, recurring programs and known gaps.
- Translate global Expert Content strategy and priorities, content viewership and usage trends, client and Sales feedback, regional demand and market developments into coverage priorities, format choices, capacity decisions and an appropriate geographic balance across APAC, the United States and other priority markets.
- Identify cross-company themes, divergent views, emerging risks and content gaps, connecting macro and sector developments to company-level and investment implications.
- Challenge the team to pursue original angles beyond familiar companies, topics and approaches, and determine primary and supporting ownership when sub-sector, asset-class, geographic or thematic expertise overlaps.
Team leadership and capability building
- Lead, coach and performance-manage the team’s sub-sector and asset-class subject matter experts, and provide research direction and quality calibration for Associates supporting the team.
- Assign ownership of individual topics and manage work queues, capacity, delivery cadence and escalations across the team.
- Lead regular sector discussions that surface new signals, test interpretations, generate content ideas and build the team’s collective expertise.
- Review research plans, expert profiles, interview questions and completed transcripts; observe selected interviews; and coach research approach, sector judgment and interviewing technique.
- Build a shared understanding of quality, insight and investor value through transcript calibration, direct feedback and structured coaching that strengthen execution and judgment across the team’s subject matter experts (SMEs).
Research innovation, synthesis and quality
- Originate differentiated research concepts, conversation structures, recurring series and synthesis formats; work with relevant internal partners to turn viable ideas into clear research objectives, required expert perspectives and execution plans.
- Produce and review sector-level and thematic research that connects insights across multiple expert interviews, companies and perspectives, presenting a more comprehensive view of what the collective evidence may indicate without making investment recommendations.
- Use AI tools and effective prompts to accelerate synthesis and drafting while independently validating the underlying evidence, adding context and strengthening the final analysis.
- Personally conduct or moderate selected high-value expert conversations where senior sector experience can materially improve the depth, originality or integration of the insights generated.
- Set standards for expert fit, question design, inter