Analyst - Category Specialization - Hardware & Telecom

Job Description

The Research analyst would be required to perform extensive research on telecom and IT hardware segments including providing consultative inputs to both procurement mangers and category heads

• Job Objective:
• The Research analyst would be required to perform extensive research on telecom and IT hardware segments including providing consultative inputs to both procurement mangers and category heads

• Job Requirements:
• Ability to effectively operate independently and in a team environment.
• In-depth knowledge on various strategic quadrants and the procurement analysis tools.
• Holistic view on the overall 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.

• Job Responsibilities:
• Identification of sources of information(secondary and primary sources )
• Extraction of information/content extraction through the sources of information.
• Thorough understanding of the category under research.(the way the category operates, supplier/solution landscape, contract mechanisms, key trends and sourcing impact)
• Identification of various drivers of the category under research - cost/demand/price drivers.
• Determination of the economic behavior 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)

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

• Work Experience:
• 2 to 5 years of experience in telecom or IT infrastructure domain while telecom experience .