(Urgent) Market Insights Analyst-Procurement

At Nouryon, our global team of Changemakers takes positive action every day, to reach higher goals collectively and individually. We create innovative and sustainable solutions for our customers to answer society’s needs – today and in the future.

Purpose of the Job

The Market Insight Analyst will establish and develop the processes required to perform a strategic proprietary point-of-view (SPOV) for each of the key raw materials used to produce Nouryon’s products. The resulting SPOV will become a critical input in the development of both short and long-term commodity procurement strategies. The analyst will establish comprehensive cost models and industry analysis for each of our Nouryon’s key raw materials. Such models and data analysis will be leveraged to maximize the profitability of each raw material commodity portfolio within the context of the overall business.

About the job (Job Responsibilities)

• Performing market analysis and developing a proprietary SPOV for Nouryon’s most critical raw materials which can be used to develop and drive best in class sourcing strategies.
• Develop cost models for raw materials / feedstock which can be used to quickly assess impact of major market moves or changes.
• Commands robust data analysis skills to support price forecasting and predictability
• Commodity supply / demand forecasts based on tracking current production and consumption and announced and presumed changes in production or consumption capacity.
• Construction of supply curves and quantification of the cost to produce for the market’s incremental supplier, and cost for each new increment of supply capacity.
• A clear understanding of the price-setting mechanism currently working in the marketplace and the key drivers that could change this.
• An understanding of the secondary and / or related drivers for each commodity (i.e. by-product economics, co-product economics, etc.) and what effect changes in these drivers would have on Nouryon’s supply position.
• Create, maintain, and coordinate market intelligence and index data used by the procurement team.
• Publish weekly / monthly market trends report to the global / regional category management team.

We believe you bring (Education & Experience)

Please apply via our online recruitment system. We will not accept applications via e-mail. Once it's with us we will review to see if we have a match between your skills and the role! For more information about our hiring process, visit : nouryon.com / careers / how-we-hire /

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