What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Analyst Marketing Research position at Lennox International?
Company Profile
Lennox (NYSE: LII) Driven by 130 years of legacy, HVAC and refrigeration success, Lennox provides our residential and commercial customers with industry-leading climate-control solutions. At Lennox, we win as a team, aiming for excellence and delivering innovative, sustainable products and services. Our culture guides us and creates a workplace where all employees feel heard and welcomed. Lennox is a global community that values each team member’s contributions and offers a supportive environment for career development. Come, stay, and grow with us.
Job Description
Core Responsibilities
- Monitor, analyze, and interpret market, customer, and competitive dynamics to support strategic planning and decision-making.
- Deliver ongoing competitive intelligence on HVACR peers, including product portfolios, pricing strategies, value propositions, business models, and go-to-market approaches.
- Provide business inputs to help determine data flow from surveys, secondary sources through to visualization dashboards.
- Develop executive-ready outputs, including dashboards, briefings, and strategic summaries tailored to leadership audiences.
- Translate disparate data sources such as market research, financials, technical specifications, and third-party intelligence (quantitative and qualitative) to convert them into integrated, actionable insights.
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to align intelligence outputs with business priorities and strategic questions.
- Design, interpret, or synthesize research (primary and secondary) to evaluate customer needs, market trends, and emerging threats or opportunities.
- Apply structured strategic frameworks (e.g., SWOT, PESTLE, Porter’s Five Forces) to assess market dynamics, competitive positioning, risks, and growth opportunities.
- Maintain structured market and competitor intelligence repositories to support consistent, repeatable insight generation.
- Stay current on industry trends, regulatory developments, technology shifts, and best practices in market and competitive intelligence.
- Leverage AI to optimize work and derive insights
Qualifications
- 5 to 7 years proven experience in market intelligence, competitive intelligence, strategy, or advisory roles, either in-house or within a consulting environment; MBA preferred.
- Strong ability to synthesize large, complex datasets into clear, executive-ready insights and narratives.
- Proficiency with analytics and visualization platforms such as Power BI, Qlik Sense, Tableau, or equivalent tools.
- Solid financial acumen, including interpretation of P&L statements, balance sheets, and business performance drivers.
- Ability to understand and contextualize technical product specifications and translate them into business and competitive implications.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience delivering insights to senior stakeholders.
- Familiarity with competitive databases, and internal knowledge systems.
- Strong analytical judgment, structured and critical thinking, and problem-solving capability.
- Understanding of AI tools and processes to aid research and analysis