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Analytics & Consulting.
Partner-track and capability leadership for firms whose product is judgment.
01 / Overview
The practice.
Analytics and consulting is the sector where the product is judgment, and the leadership briefs are about building platforms — not running them.
We serve global strategy and management consulting firms, the Big Four, analytics and data-science firms, and the in-house consulting and analytics arms of large enterprises. Most of our work here is partner-track or capability-leader search, where the bar is set by what the candidate can build, not what they have delivered.
02 / Market landscape
What the market is doing.
The forces shaping leadership demand in Analytics right now.
Data and AI consulting are the fastest-growing service lines
Pure-play data, AI and analytics firms are scaling rapidly, and the leadership pipeline has not kept pace.
In-house consulting is a serious destination
Strategy offices, CEO offices and in-house consulting groups now compete with traditional firms for senior talent — and increasingly win.
Partner-track hiring is the most competitive it has ever been
Across India and the GCC, partner-track moves are happening faster, with bigger guaranteed packages and higher counter-offer risk than at any time in the last two decades.
03 / Talent landscape
"The best consulting and analytics leaders are deeply referenced, slow to move, and motivated by platform-building as much as compensation. Our process is built for that long-cycle conversation."
04 / Roles we place
The mandates.
Representative roles across 5 role families.
Partner-track
- · Partner
- · Principal
- · Senior Director
- · Managing Director
Practice & capability
- · Head of Practice
- · Head of Capability
- · Head of Industry Vertical
- · Head of Sector
Data & AI
- · Chief Data Officer
- · Chief Analytics Officer
- · Head of AI / ML
- · Head of Data Science
- · Head of Data Engineering
Strategy & corporate development
- · Head of Strategy
- · Head of Corporate Development
- · Head of M&A
- · Head of CEO Office
In-house consulting
- · Head of In-house Consulting
- · Head of Transformation Office
- · Strategy Director
05 / Our approach
How we hire for Analytics.
Practice economics, not just delivery
We reference partner-track candidates on book of business, talent built and platform shaped — not only on engagement quality.
Cross-firm calibration
We know how seniority translates across MBB, Big Four, boutiques and in-house — and we don't let titles mislead.
AI-native operating leaders
For data and AI roles we test for genuine model and platform exposure, not buzzword-level fluency.
Platform-builder bias
We prioritise candidates who have built and scaled teams over those who have only delivered well.
06 / Methodology
Our 5-step process.
The way we run a sector search end to end.
- 01
Platform brief
We define the role around the practice or capability the candidate will build — not the title.
- 02
Cross-firm mapping
Targeted mapping across MBB, Big Four, boutiques, in-house consulting groups and pure-play data and AI firms.
- 03
Senior-to-senior outreach
Discreet, peer-led outreach to partner-track and capability-leader candidates.
- 04
Capability and platform assessment
Structured leadership interviewing with explicit focus on what the candidate has built.
- 05
Closure & integration
Compensation structuring (cash, deferred, equity, partnership), and integration planning into partnership cultures.
07 / Capabilities
What we deliver.
- Partner and principal search
- Practice and capability leadership
- Data and AI leadership
- In-house consulting roles
- Corporate strategy and M&A
- Analytics and data-science teams
- Industry-vertical leadership
- Board and advisory search
08 / Cross-border
India · UAE · Singapore · Canada.
Many of our partner-track placements move between India, the GCC, Singapore and the US. Indian-origin partners are being aggressively recruited into GCC consulting practices, and we run integrated cross-border briefs almost every quarter.
09 / Case snapshots
Recent work.
Anonymised to protect client and candidate confidentiality.
Senior Partner — Financial Services for a global consulting major
Confidential lateral partner move; closed in 16 weeks with a multi-year guaranteed package and full client transition.
Chief Data Officer for a Fortune 500 GCC
Built from a 70-candidate map across India, Singapore and the US.
Head of CEO Office for a listed Indian conglomerate
Confidential search; closed in 12 weeks with a leader from a global strategy firm.
10 / Outcomes
Track record.
90+Partner and senior placements
35+Data and AI leadership hires
7Consulting firm types served
90%Two-year retention
11 / FAQ
Questions, answered.
- Do you handle lateral partner moves?
- Yes — including confidential, multi-stakeholder lateral moves with complex compensation structures.
- Can you build a data and AI capability from scratch?
- Yes. We have built leadership benches for greenfield data and AI capabilities across GCCs, Indian enterprises and consulting firms.
- Do you cover in-house consulting and CEO office roles?
- Yes — and we are explicit about not substituting external consulting experience for the very different demands of in-house roles.
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