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Job Description

We are a leading chemical company, with the best teams developing intelligent solutions for our customers and for a sustainable future. Our success as a company relies on the engagement of our employees. We encourage our employees to develop their strengths, and we recognize their achievements. For you, this means a wide variety of job roles and exciting opportunities for learning and career development.

Role Summary

• To support BASF Venture Capital team on research on various Investment topics
• To create and regularly update communication documents for BASF Venture Capital – encompassing the findings from research and the BVC’s investment thesis on various topics

Detailed Responsibilities:

A. Research responsibilities:

• On each topic of interest to BASF Venture Capital, to research global technology trends, market trends, value-chain related constraints and opportunities, funding history and trends, the position of key industry players, and finally the current landscape of startups and their success.
  • This will require an ability to quickly obtain a high-level understanding of New technologies through secondary research – history of evolution, key technological barriers, key ecosystem enablers or barriers, the extent of technological progress in each geography etc. with the objective of being able to conclude whether the technology is a genuinely useful and viable improvement over the current status.
• To research market-wise drivers that will influence the importance of such a topic – focusing only on the markets that BVC has an interest in. 
  • This will also require an ability to quickly learn and appreciate global macro-economic and ecosystem drivers to assess market-wise impact of GDP, purchasing power, industrial growth, sector-wise performance, export-import dependencies, manufacturing capabilities, technological adoption, internet-led behaviours, changing consumer interests, thrust on sustainability, the impact of changes in regulation etc.
• To research the global startup landscape – history, financial performance, success and failures, industry adoption, funding.
  • This will require an ability to be comfortable with company financial information (revenues, revenue growth, gross margins, EBITDA, capitalization, cash burn, valuation multiples etc.
• To supplement secondary research with opinions from BVC global team, interviews with BASF experts and/or external experts
• To support the BVC India team on in-depth research on topics of interest for just the India market. This will involve (in addition to the above research requirements) personal visits to various startups and companies.

B. Communication responsibilities:

• To capture the findings of all the above research in different communication formats. To be responsible for updating this communication (and research) periodically and circulating it both internally and externally as required.

Qualifications:

• Education: Top IITs (any stream of Engineering) / Chartered Accountant
• Work-ex: Fresh Graduate (OR) 1-year experience in either a Big-Four consulting team or with any other VC / PE / IB as an Analyst

Key Skillsets:

1. High adaptability in learning – ability to learn and be comfortable with areas and topics outside of own domain of expertise. Must be willing to understand technology as well as financial and economic data
2. High research skills – ability to mine a vast array of data and logically evaluate it
3. High analytical skills – ability to discern patterns and insights from data and reach conclusions
4. Good communication skills – Good use of English language, use of figures, charts, and numbers to explain the case and use of communication tools such as PowerPoint.
5. Non-negotiable: should be a team player, be humble and respectful of colleagues and others, should be willing to take responsibility and accountability for the work assigned.