Roles and Responsibilities : - Understands the know-how of category management [ IT, Finance, HR, Business] - Understand trends in customers needs and concerns, across categories and regions, to influence customers priorities - Build strong relationship with customers and ensure customer satisfaction - Collect and analyze data through modern and traditional methods on consumers, competitors and the market place - Devise and design qualitative and quantitative custom market research projects - Perform qualitative and quantitative analyses to identify opportunities for product expansion - Apply statistical techniques to interpret data and produce substantiated recommendations. - Prepare reports of findings, illustrating data graphically and translating complex findings into written text and presenting results - Make recommendations for feasible methods for market penetration - Proactively share and present market research reports and data analysis throughout the organization - Research competitors and compile data for benchmarking - Develop strong partnerships with cross-functional teams - Advise management on new innovations in the area of market research, and create new ways to meet the needs of a changing marketplace - Has comprehensive knowledge on industry, competitor and customer models including, but not limited to, market share, growth projections and trends, and market forces. - Performs thorough, systematic analysis of key industry trends; the general social economic and political environment; legal and regulatory issues; customers; current and potential competitors. - Provides market and competitive insights through presentations and reports to the stakeholders and various internal management teams to allow effective strategic and tactical decision-making and implementation. - Supplies the market and competitive intelligence component of strategic planning, and proactively makes recommendations to management concerning key intelligence items that require further consideration. - Maintains up-to-date knowledge of data sources, evaluating their credibility and potential utility, and leverages them across the company where appropriate. - Develops and maintains relationships with key internal customers to identify emerging needs and business challenges. - Works with internal business customers to enhance their use of strategic analysis and market and competitor intelligence. Collaborates internally to ensure intelligence is shared with appropriate groups and individuals. - Maintains an in-depth knowledge of designated markets and trends through reading reports, market research, data manipulation and financial modeling and analysis. Desired Candidate Profile : - 10+ years experience in a Procurement organization and having worked as a Market Intelligence expert with relevant experience - 5+ years' experience developing category strategies and pricing models - Developing market intelligence to communicate across the organization - Experience with creating Procurement systems and tools - Proven ability to implement category strategies globally - Proven ability to deep dive and develop innovative ideas for process challenges - Broadly-skilled business professional with a high level of intelligence, business acumen and a strong penchant for innovation - Pragmatic builder, capable of being flexible with job tasks and able to balance a broad range of activities while driving ultimate completion of deliverables - Strong analytical skills and experience dealing with large amount of complex data - Experience in project management, involving cross function and global teams - Strong communication skills and ability to influence at various levels of the organization - Experience in applying financial analysis techniques to draw conclusions from financial data; understands and evaluates implications of alternatives; makes decisions on an appropriate course of action - Lead business reviews to discuss best practices and issues and to ultimately improve supplier performance and strengthen business partnerships

Hyderabad

DSM - Market Intelligence Expert - Procurement  

DSM - Market Intelligence Expert - Procurement   ,Job Description for DSM - Market Intelligence Expert - Procurement   in DSM India in  Hyderabad for (10-15) years of experience. Apply Now!

Job Description for DSM - Market Intelligence Expert - Procurement   in DSM India in  Hyderabad for (10-15) years of experience. Apply Now!