Shubham Powar

Senior Consultant at Transparency Market Research Pvt. Ltd. (2025-07 – Present)

Directed end-to-end lifecycle management for 50+ strategic research studies, client briefing through stakeholder delivery, shaping GTM, pricing, and product decisions for Fortune 500 clients from Americas, EMEA, and APAC.
Designed 50+ primary research questionnaires and executed 200+ KOL interview programs, applying sampling methodology, and quota management to ensure representational validity and actionable insight depth.
Served as primary client contact from research brief to final presentation, translating complex findings into investment and positioning analyses using SWOT, PESTLE, Porter's Five Forces, and Value Chain frameworks.
Spearheaded presales operations, authoring 500+ research proposals and sample reports aligned to client briefs, boosting project win rates by 25% through precise deliverable framing and competitive positioning.
Led cross-functional AI automation initiative integrating Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity into the research pipeline, reducing average project turnaround by 40% while maintaining data quality standards.
Conducted ecosystem mapping across 8+ sectors, synthesizing multi-source competitive intelligence into investment-grade opportunity assessments for corporate strategy and PE/VC clients.
Managed, mentored, and capacity-planned a 7-member analyst team, establishing deliverable ownership, peer review, and performance feedback cycles, increasing team output by 30% without headcount expansion.

Senior Research Analyst at Infiniti Research Limited (2022-11 – 2025-07)

Managed full project lifecycle for 100+ insight reports, from client kick-off and research scoping through data collection, analysis, and stakeholder presentation.
Orchestrated mixed-method research programs, CATI surveys, expert IDIs, and competitive benchmarking across 500+ firms leveraging Factiva, D&B Hoovers, and GlobalData to support M&A screening, procurement, and market entry decisions.
Managed vendor relationships and primary research fieldwork operations, CATI execution, respondent coordination, and data quality validation, delivering analysis-ready datasets on time and within client budgets.
Designed and implemented QA protocols, structured deliverable checklists and peer review workflows, reducing revision rates by 30% and establishing a repeatable quality control framework adopted team-wide.

Market Research Analyst at Infinium Global Research, LLP (2021-06 – 2022-11)

Executed mixed-method primary research programs, including CATI surveys and expert IDIs, managing respondent coordination, fieldwork logistics, and data quality oversight to deliver on-time, analysis-ready datasets.
Collaborated with sales and operations stakeholders to translate client research briefs into structured research roadmaps, aligning scope, methodology, and timelines to business objectives and optimizing market entry spend.
Synthesized secondary research intelligence across 4 industry verticals, including competitive landscape, market sizing, and regulatory analysis, producing structured reports that supported client strategy and procurement decisions.

Market Research Associate at Infinium Global Research, LLP (2019-05 – 2021-06)

Conducted in-depth secondary market analysis across 4 industries, synthesizing competitive intelligence, regulatory landscape, market sizing, and consumer insights data into structured, client-ready research deliverables.
Supported senior researchers in survey design, primary data collection for 100+ client engagements, building foundational competencies in research methodology, stakeholder reporting, and data quality validation.

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