Job Description

Strategy Analyst – CEO's Office

Location:	Nariman Point, Mumbai
Reporting to:	CEO/Director

About Sahney Kirkwood

Sahney Insulation Group is a leading manufacturer of specialty insulation materials engineered for rotating equipment, inverters & drives, switchgear, and transformers. With manufacturing operations in Nashik and its corporate headquarters in Mumbai, the Group is expected to achieve a turnover of approximately ₹500 Crore this financial year.

The Company serves both domestic and international markets, with approximately 60% of revenues generated in India and 40% from global customers. As the business enters its next phase of expansion, Sahney Kirkwood is investing in new markets, new products, manufacturing capabilities, and strategic growth initiatives.

To support this journey, we are looking for an exceptional Strategy Analyst who will work directly with the Founder/Director and later the CEO on strategic initiatives that will define the Company's growth over the next five years.

Position Overview

This is not a conventional analyst role.

You will function as an extension of the leadership team, helping evaluate markets, competitors, technologies, investment opportunities, and long-term growth initiatives. The role combines strategic thinking, commercial analysis, engineering understanding, and financial modelling.

The ideal candidate enjoys solving complex business problems, working with data, interacting with technical teams, and converting insights into actionable business recommendations.

This position offers significant exposure to senior leadership and provides an excellent platform for accelerated professional growth.

Key Responsibilities

Corporate Strategy

• Support the formulation and execution of the Group's five-year strategic growth roadmap.
• Identify attractive industries, customer segments, adjacent markets, and new business opportunities.
• Conduct strategic assessments for diversification, product expansion, partnerships, acquisitions, and capacity expansion.
• Develop strategic recommendations backed by quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Prepare presentations and discussion papers for leadership and Board reviews.

Competitive Intelligence

You will become the organization's central resource for understanding the competitive landscape.

• Competitive Intelligence: Being able to identify competitors in the market, identify their capacity constraints, pinning down market white spaces.
• Benchmark competitors across technology, manufacturing footprint, pricing, patents, product portfolios, investments, and commercial strategy.
• Monitor industry developments and emerging technologies that could influence the Company's strategic direction.
• Evaluate opportunities created by changing market dynamics.

Market Research & Growth Analysis

• Conduct detailed market assessments across India and international markets.
• Identify high-growth industry segments and adjacent markets.
• Evaluate customer requirements, technology shifts, and demand drivers.
• Analyse macroeconomic trends, regulatory developments, and industry outlooks affecting long-term growth.
• Support market-entry strategies through structured research and commercial analysis.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

This role requires working across multiple business functions.

• Cross-Functional Communication: Be Bridge between on the floor engineers, marketing teams, corporate communications, and senior leadership (reporting is to the Founder/Director to start with and will then move on to the CEO).
• Translate technical discussions into commercial insights.
• Work closely with manufacturing, engineering, finance, marketing, and business development teams.
• Facilitate collaboration between technical experts and business leaders.

Technical & Analytical Excellence

Success in this role requires an ability to rapidly understand industrial technologies.

• Curiosity: To learn this market and adjacent high-growth markets.
• Technical and Analytical Capabilities:
  • Capacity to quickly grasp engineering concepts, material sciences.
  • Understand manufacturing processes, insulation technologies, industrial applications, and customer requirements.
  • Interpret technical developments and evaluate their commercial implications.

Data Analytics & Strategic Insights

You will be expected to work with large amounts of information from multiple sources.

• Advanced Data Synthesis: Ability to convert complex market data, competitor patents, and industrial capacity metrics into clear actionable commercial growth strategies.
• Build executive-ready dashboards and presentations.
• Conduct scenario planning and sensitivity analysis.
• Develop decision-support frameworks for leadership.

Financial Modelling

Financial analysis forms a core component of this role.

• Financial Modelling: Ability to create and build robust Cash Flow models, pricing elasticity frameworks and capital expenditure forecasts for potential expansions.
• Prepare investment analyses including IRR, NPV, payback, and scenario analysis.
• Evaluate strategic projects from both commercial and financial perspectives.

Candidate Profile

Education

MBA/CFA with BE/B Tech from a reputed institution.

Experience

• 1–4 years of experience.
• Experience in Management Consulting, Corporate Strategy, Business Analysis, or Manufacturing Strategy preferred.
• Candidates from leading consulting firms or industrial strategy teams will have an advantage.

Skills Required

• Exceptional analytical and structured problem-solving ability.
• Strong business acumen.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Financial modelling capability.
• Ability to analyse technical information and commercialise insights.
• High intellectual curiosity.
• Ability to independently drive projects with minimal supervision.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.

What Success Looks Like

Within the first 12–18 months, the successful candidate will have:

• Built a deep understanding of the specialty insulation industry.
• Developed actionable competitive intelligence frameworks.
• Supported strategic decisions on new markets and investments.
• Delivered robust financial models for business expansion.
• Established themselves as a trusted advisor to the Founder and CEO.
• Contributed meaningfully to the Company's long-term growth strategy.

Why Join Sahney Kirkwood?

This role provides a unique opportunity to work directly with the Founder and senior leadership of a fast-growing global manufacturing company. You will gain hands-on exposure to corporate strategy, industrial technology, financial modelling, market intelligence, and executive decision-making while playing a meaningful role in shaping the Company's next phase of growth.

If you are intellectually curious, commercially minded, and passionate about solving strategic business challenges, this role offers an outstanding platform to accelerate your career.