Analyst - Category Specialization - Hardware & Telecom

Job Description

• Job Responsibilities:
• The primary responsibility is to perform extensive research on the supply-demand-price of the select commodities on a global basis and build forecast models based on the collected information.
• Extraction of information/content extraction through the sources of information (through Primary and secondary research) Identification of various drivers of the commodity under research - cost/demand/price drivers.
• Determination of the economic behaviour of the supply/demand/price of the commodity.
• Identification of experts for the commodity and key extraction of information.
• Competitive analysis of major suppliers of the commodity.
• Industry analysis.
• Use of various strategic frameworks to determine competitive positioning.
• Forecasts - Industry trends and more.
• Impact determination – macroeconomics/logistics/supply chain/disruptions/legislation/taxes on the supply and price of the commodity.
• Providing inputs towards price forecasts – (quantitative information/factors to support the price forecast of the commodity

• Job Requirements:
• Experience in Telecom or IT Infrastructure categories in the role of procurement, presales, business analysis, functional consulting, IT delivery/deployment or research is preferred
• Sales experience can also be considered subject to knowledge of domain in helping to provide consultative inputs to research requests raised by clients from procurement managers to category heads
• IT Infrastructure can include Data centres, Cloud computing, Networking, End user computing etc.
• Telecom includes fixed line, mobility and wireless technologies
• Ability to effectively operate independently and in a team environment.
• Thorough understanding of the commodity under research. (The production process and other generic technical details of the commodity).
• Holistic view on the respective Industry spend categories.
• Insights on how stakeholders view the sourcing of the categories.
• Key focus/expectations of Industry stakeholders through the market intelligence report.
• Basic understanding on the value chain of the respective domain and how each category are related to drive the top line growth.
• Key end users of respective domain/Industry  and its categories and the emerging trends that marketers should be aware of Level of innovation brought in through the MI reports delivered in past.
• Experience in Telecom or IT Infrastructure in the role of procurement, presales, business analysis, functional consulting or research.

Qualification: MBA (Systems/Marketing/Operations/Logistics/Supply Chain/ Agri/ Finance) with minimum 60% from class X onwards.

Work Experience: Atleast 3 years of experience in IT or telecom roles – consulting, pre-sales, market research, sourcing, deployment, Business analysis