Vice President - Chemicals Advisory

Vice President, Chemicals Advisory

About the Practice Area

Chemicals       

Frost & Sullivan’s Chemical’s Growth Advisory practice is a powerful congruence of growth strategy engagements, thought leadership, insights, and actionable strategic recommendations that enable our clients to successfully grow in the Indian Chemicals markets. Organizations across this value chain work with us to better understand where they are and where they need to be with our insights and recommendation into not only their competition but also opportunities across geographies, vertical end markets, and customer types. The Growth Advisory practice is the doorway for our clients to navigate the vagaries of business, foresee the future of their market and create sustainable growth strategies for the long term.

About the Role

As Vice President of Growth Advisory, you will be the driving force behind growing the practice, driving teams and ensuring high value client delivery. You’ll deepen relationships with our valued clients while expanding our reach by forging new connections with senior and board-level decision-makers. A cornerstone of your role will be to elevate the Practice Area’s intellectual capital—shaping thought leadership that sets industry benchmarks. As a true ambassador of Frost & Sullivan, you’ll represent the firm in the market with authority and insight. Beyond client impact, you’ll lead the Practice Area to success—overseeing performance, hitting growth targets, ensuring excellence in delivery, and empowering your team to thrive.

Responsibilities

1. Strategic Advisory & Client Growth

• Lead executive Growth Dialogues that identify and convert client growth opportunities into actionable strategies.
• Apply Frost & Sullivan’s Growth Pipeline Engine (GPE) to deliver measurable client value.
• Success outcomes: Client growth opportunities identified and progressed; strong client satisfaction; repeat engagements and measurable client outcomes.

1. Practice & Consulting Excellence

• Ensure consulting projects meet agreed quality, timeline, budget and client expectations.
• Strengthen research, analytical and consulting capabilities across teams.
• Success outcomes: Projects delivered on time and within budget; consistently high-quality deliverables; improved team productivity and capability

2.Executive Relationships & Client Retention

• Build trusted C-suite relationships and position Frost & Sullivan as a strategic growth advisor.
• Expand strategic accounts and develop long-term client partnerships.
• Success outcomes: Improved client retention; increased repeat business; growth in strategic account revenue and executive-level relationships.

3. Business Growth & Commercial Performance

• Own the Practice Area business plan, revenue growth and commercial performance.
• Develop new business opportunities and expand Growth Pipeline Advisory (GPAD) and Growth Pipeline-as-a-Service (GPaaS).
• Success outcomes: Achievement of revenue and profitability targets; growth in qualified pipeline and conversion rates; increased revenue from new and expanded offerings.

4. Industry Leadership & Innovation

• Strengthen Frost & Sullivan’s market position through thought leadership, industry engagement and differentiated advisory offerings.
• Translate emerging market trends into new services and commercial opportunities.
• Success outcomes: Increased market visibility; new offerings launched and commercialised; measurable contribution to pipeline generation and revenue.

5. Leadership & Talent Development

• Develop future leaders, address capability gaps and foster collaboration across Practice Areas.
• Success outcomes: Improved team capability and productivity; stronger succession readiness; increased retention of key talent and successful cross-practice collaboration.

Required Competencies

The ideal candidate will have a strong educational foundation in business, economics, domain/ industry knowledge, coupled with a passion for solving complex problems and creating actionable insights for clients.

This role requires someone who is curious, methodical, and able to think strategically—connecting dots between data, industry trends, and business impact. Strong client-handling skills, including communication, adaptability, and credibility in stakeholder interactions, are critical.

• A relevant university degree (MBA). A postgraduate degree (Master’s or PhD) is highly regarded and considered an advantage

• 15-18 years of analyst/consulting working experience within a Consulting and/or Advisory services business environment.

• The ability to research and write a coherent story in proper English about a topic is critical.
• A foundational understanding of the manufacturing industry, such as industry structure, operational practices, and competitive landscapes.
• The ability to network to create new relationships and to proactively manage on-going relationships to stay relevant to market intelligence needs of the clients.
• An analytical thought process, with outstanding written and verbal communication skills and business level fluency in English.
• The desire to learn public presentation skills in front of an audience and a video camera.
• Confident enough to present your work to a group of peers or a client and defend your analysis in a calm and professional manner.
• A team player who views team collaboration as an important path to professional development.

What will make you succeed at Frost & Sullivan?..

• Be curious, entrepreneurial and open to new ideas.
• Be committed to customer success.
• Take ownership and work independently.
• Communicate clearly and influence others.
• Think analytically and strategically.
• Stay informed about emerging trends and disruptive technologies.
• Be well-organised, detail-oriented and able to manage multiple priorities.
• Maintain high-quality standards and understand how their work contributes to business goals.

Benefits

• A friendly work environment with an ‘open door’ policy
• A strong career path with growth opportunities.
• Be part of a team that strives for excellence, and fosters an Olympic spirit
• Feed your intellectual curiosity by collaborating across all levels of the company across the globe
• Global Recognition - President’s Club & Chairman’s Club Awards
• Continuous learning and coaching
• Flexible work policy

About Frost & Sullivan

Frost & Sullivan, the Transformational Growth Journey Company, has spent more than 60 years partnering with clients to develop transformational growth strategies by focusing on innovation and growth opportunities driven by disruptive technologies, mega trends, emerging markets and new business models. Today, more than ever before, companies must innovate, not only to survive, but thrive in the future. Our Growth Pipeline Management (GPM) system supports clients by identifying and evaluating new growth opportunities and serves as the foundation for continuous growth. This is your opportunity to be part of a revolutionary global team that truly inspires positive global changes by innovating to zero.  Learn more about Frost & Sullivan at www.frost.com

Frost & Sullivan is committed to a work environment free of all forms of discrimination.  Frost & Sullivan recruits and hires without regard to race, color, religion, gender, marital status, age, disability, national origin, veteran status, or sexual orientation

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