Analyst- Category Specialization-Industrial Manufacturing Durables

• 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:
• 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 Mechanical, Electrical and/or Electronics spend categories – Industry and Supplier research is preferred.

Qualification: MBA (Operations/Supply Chain)and/or B.Tech/B.E (Mechanical/Electrical/Electronics) with minimum 60% from class X onwards.

Work Experience: 1 to 4 years of experience.