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Market Intelligence Analyst
About Our Client
Our client is a well-established global manufacturer with a diversified portfolio spanning multiple industrial end markets. They are at an exciting stage of growth - investing deliberately in building out a strategy capability that did not exist before, and this role is one of the first hires that will define what that function looks like.
The Opportunity
Most market intelligence roles ask you to maintain what already exists. This one asks you to build it.
You will be the person who keeps leadership honest about what is happening in their markets - cutting through noise, challenging assumptions, and turning external signals into clear implications for the business. Whether it is tracking how a competitor is repositioning, sizing a new market opportunity, or reading between the lines of a 10-K to understand where a rival is placing its bets, your work will land directly on the desks of decision-makers.
This is a rare in-house role that combines the analytical depth of equity research with the strategic context of a corporate strategy team. If you are someone who gets genuinely curious about industries, enjoys figuring out what the numbers are actually saying, and wants your work to matter - this is worth a conversation.
What You Will Be Doing
- Market Research and Trend Analysis: Monitor emerging market dynamics across sectors relevant to the business - including high-growth areas like the EV supply chain and adjacent industrial markets. Identify shifts early and frame them in terms of business implication, not just market description.
- Synthesis and Storytelling: Take large volumes of unstructured information and turn them into tight, well-reasoned outputs. A crisp one-pager that answers "so what for us?" is the standard. Presentations, briefings, and executive summaries will be core deliverables.
- Strategic Project Support: Contribute research and analysis to broader strategy projects as they arise - market entry assessments, white space analysis, portfolio reviews, and more.
- Competitive Intelligence: Track competitor moves across capacity, investment, and strategy. Go beyond surface-level summaries - read their filings, understand their economics, and translate findings into what it means for the bussiness.
- Supply and Demand Modeling: Build and maintain basic models that map out industry supply, demand, and capacity - both internally and across the competitive landscape. This is not heavy financial modeling; it is structured thinking made quantitative.
What We Are Looking For
- Experience: Three to five years in a role that required you to make sense of complex, incomplete information - equity research, strategy consulting, corporate strategy, or in-house market intelligence are all strong backgrounds.
- Financial Literacy: You are comfortable reading a 10-K and understanding what it actually reveals about a company's strategy, cost structure, and competitive position. You do not need to be an accountant - but you need to know what the numbers are telling you.
- Analytical Horsepower: You can build a basic supply/demand model, stress-test a market sizing assumption, and know when a third-party report's numbers do not add up.
- A Strong "So What? Instinct: The ability to synthesize is more important than the ability to research. Anyone can compile information. The value here is in the interpretation - forming a view, backing it up, and communicating it clearly.
- Genuine Curiosity: You read things you were not asked to read. You follow threads. You find industries interesting even when they are not glamorous. That disposition matters as much as any technical skill.
Why This Role Stands Out
- You will be building something from scratch, not inheriting a process
- Your work feeds directly into leadership decisions - short feedback loops,real visibility
- The scope spans multiple markets and business lines, so no two months look the same
- It is an in-house role with the intellectual texture of a research or consulting position
- Strong platform for growth as the strategy team expands