GEP - Principal Analyst/Senior Sourcing Analyst/Sourcing Analyst

Job Description - Principal Analyst

Requirements :

- 4-6 years of work of hands-on research experience, with a demonstrated ability to consistently deliver quality output customized to client requirements.

- Understanding of Procurement and/or Supply Chain domain

MUST exhibit a strong understanding in one of the following :

- IT

- Energy

- Pharma

- Professional Services

- Good to have - Team management skills

- Good to have - Experience in Supply Market Intelligence

- Excellent written and oral interpersonal communication skills

Key Responsibilities :

- This is an instrumental position to be part of the growing market intelligence practice and will require you to work on projects that are important for our client's procurement organization

- Build and execute category strategy for your spend area (either IT/Energy/Pharma/Professional services). Have complete ownership of your spend area

- Key enabler in client acquisition process. Liaise with Sales and Engagement Managers to identify prospects and play critical role in their acquisition

- Work with client's procurement stakeholders to understand their key data/insight requirements and design MI frameworks to address those requirements.

- Proactively deliver whitepapers and other collateral to project GEP as one of the thought leaders in industry (IT/ Energy/ Pharma)

- Manage and groom team of analysts

- Design research assignments with clients, and manage and guide its delivery internally

- As Industry lead, you will design innovative research products (applicable to your industry) which can deliver significant value to procurement stakeholders

- The role will very likely involve overseas travel

Reporting structure :

- He/she would directly report to the Research Manager

Key Traits :

- Comfortable with ambiguity and change

- Analytical thinker - someone who can decode client's business challenges and structure/deliver research output to mitigate those issues

- Ability to multitask