Team Member-Strategy-Corporate Office

Deepak Group; Vadodara; On-site; INR 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Darwinbox Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in Vadodara seeks a Market Intelligence Analyst to identify demand, supply and price drivers for key raw materials, including tariffs, trade flows and substitutes.

You will track market dynamics and present findings to procurement teams to support sourcing decisions. You will build econometric models, forecast scenarios, and develop financial analyses for projects and new products.

Responsibilities

• Identify and track demand, supply and price drivers of key raw materials, incl. feedstock balances and tariffs.
• Build statistical/econometric models of raw material price drivers to forecast prices and demand-supply scenarios.
• Identify price patterns and trends and present findings to business and procurement teams, highlighting risks to topline/bottom line.
• Recommend procurement options across short-, mid-, and long-term horizons based on model outputs and market intelligence.
• Track end-market and customer-industry trends for key finished products to support demand planning and capacity utilization.
• Build and maintain scenario-based financial models (payback, IRR, NPV, sensitivity) for projects and new initiatives.
• Analyze market, cost and competitor data to recommend target prices for finished products and support pricing decisions.
• Support business case development for new products and projects, including viability assessment and expected returns.
• Track the financial impact of margin-improvement initiatives such as sourcing, by-product valorization and grade-mix changes.
• Build and maintain a competitor database for existing and new products in collaboration with marketing, BD and procurement teams.
• Conduct strategic and financial analysis of competitors to infer their strategic intent.
• Prepare competitor reports assessing likely business impact and proposing risk-mitigation actions.
• Establish and maintain structured databases and data-collection systems covering market, price, trade and competitor data from primary/secondary sources, designed for fast retrieval.
• Clean, validate and reconcile data from market reports, trade databases and internal systems; work with IT to resolve data-quality issues at source.
• Automate recurring analyses and build dashboards that give leadership a clear view of trends, patterns and forecasts.
• Prepare concise, decision-oriented reports for the Head – Strategy and leadership team

Job description

• Identifyand track the demand, supply and price drivers of key raw materials, includingfeedstock balances, capacity additions and closures, tariffs and duties inconsuming geographies, trade flows, and availability of substitutes.
• Buildand maintain statistical and econometric models of raw material price driversto forecast prices and demand-supply scenarios; back-test and refine modelsregularly.
• Identifyprice patterns and trends, and present findings to business and procurementteams, highlighting current and emerging risks to topline and bottom line.
• Recommendprocurement options across short-term (1–3 months), medium-term (3–6 months)and long-term (over 6 months) horizons, based on model outputs and marketintelligence.
• Trackend-market and customer-industry trends for key finished products to supportdemand planning and capacity-utilization decisions.
• Buildand maintain scenario-based financial models (payback, IRR, NPV, sensitivity)for projects, new products and initiatives.
• Analyzemarket, cost and competitor data to recommend target prices for finishedproducts and support pricing decisions.
• Supportbusiness case development for new products and projects, including viabilityassessment and expected returns.
• Trackthe financial impact of margin-improvement initiatives such as sourcing,by-product valorization and grade-mix changes.
• Buildand maintain a competitor database for existing and new products, incollaboration with marketing, business development and procurement teams.
• Conductstrategic and financial analysis of competitors (capacities, costs, financials,announcements, investments) to infer their strategic intent.
• Preparecompetitor reports that assess the likely impact on the business and proposerisk-mitigation actions.
• Establishand maintain structured databases and data-collection systems covering market,price, trade and competitor data from primary and secondary sources, designedfor fast retrieval.
• Clean,validate and reconcile data from market reports, trade databases and internalsystems; work with IT and business teams to resolve data-quality issues atsource.
• Automaterecurring analyses and build dashboards that give leadership a clear view oftrends, patterns and forecasts.
• Prepare concise, decision-oriented reports andpresentations for the Head – Strategy and leadership team