Competitive Intelligence Analyst Job Description
Competitive intelligence analyst
provides analysis on healthcare market trends / industry landscape and develop actionable analyses and recommendations based on research.
Competitive Intelligence Analyst Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Contributes to the Strategy & Business Development (S&BD) organization by providing market intelligence expertise, market assessments, price forecasts, economic valuations, dashboards and related analytics
Ongoing tracking and analysis of key PaaS competitors (including public cloud, private cloud and on-premises), and emerging competitive threats and trends
Managing vendors, internal marketing stakeholders and CMI Business Partners where appropriate to ensure products are continuously fit for business purpose
Interact with the lab & product managers for sales tools content development, testing
With direction, demonstrate an ability to implement competitive insight and analysis projects in support of assigned business unit / region
With direction, supports Business Unit / Regional Insight Team in
Identify behavioral patterns and strategies by systematically synthesizing internal and external sources of information such as CRM data, RFP debriefings, Customer Satisfaction Survey, competitor communication, and market research, and develop recommendations and actionable insights from these findings for each Region, Strategic Program, or Line of Business
Managing and delivering Life Science specific regular competitive intelligence foundational programs including competitor profiles, newsletters, ad-hoc business alerts, competitor earnings releases and coverage of relevant trade show and investor events (including attendance of relevant events)
Building expertise on key competitors and landscape through individual learning and regular interaction with Business Partners
Generate selling against sales tools vs
Competitive Intelligence Analyst Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Competitive Intelligence Analyst
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CISSP, CIP, ACI, CAP, SCIP
Education for Competitive Intelligence Analyst
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the competitive intelligence analyst job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Business, Marketing, Economics, Engineering, Business/Administration, MBA, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Communication
Skills for Competitive Intelligence Analyst
Desired skills for competitive intelligence analyst include:
Business
Excel and PowerPoint
Industry
Its products and processes
Analysis and industry trends
Cloud
Data warehousing
Development
Excel
Financial datasets and investor reports for analysis
Desired experience for competitive intelligence analyst includes:
University or Bachelors degree in Marketing
Conduct competitive trainings and presentations to regions sales force, resellers and in some cases customers
Provide quarterly competitive updates to management and broader organization
Be responsible for printers tear down with lab support
Define competitors future vintage chart
Conduct regular competitive lab visits
Competitive Intelligence Analyst Examples
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Competitive Intelligence Analyst Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a competitive intelligence analyst. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for competitive intelligence analyst
- Conduct in-depth competitive intelligence research and analysis using a variety of industry tools (FPDS, USASpending, GovWin IQ, BGov, DACIS)
- Assist the Corporate Development team in the preparation and proof reading of important documents, and all the other activities related to the role of Market and Competitive Intelligence Analyst
- Supervise and assist Corporate Development Intern
- Develops and analyzes business performance reports and provides notations of performance deviations and anomalies
- Managing information on competitors in our database (SharePoint and Dynamics CRM)
- Developing Standard Work for content update cadence
- Testing new data management system
- Collaborates with internal and external experts to develop robust Competitor summaries and perspectives on Competitors strategies
- With supervision, synthesize data to form recommendations and actionable insights
- Take ownership of all competitive intelligence activities for the Company
Qualifications for competitive intelligence analyst
- Highly developed communications skills—ability to write and speak effectively to audiences with varied technical depth and diverse professional roles
- Solid analytical skills with the ability to produce actionable insights from information gathered
- Ability to work independently but also build and maintain strong working relationships with Product and Field organizations
- Respond to questions and ad-hoc requests from stakeholders and end users - focused analyses, issues with the data
- Proficiency in English required (oral & written)
- 2-4 years strategy or finance experience in a variety of positions both internally and externally
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Competitive Intelligence Analyst Job Description
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of competitive intelligence analyst. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for competitive intelligence analyst
- Deep and ongoing competitive research and analysis of competitors’ PaaS strategy, with focus on delivery of accurate, timely, unbiased and contextual analysis as a subject matter expert (SME)
- Identify, utilize, influence or build the required sources of information, competitive deal reviews, internal communities, workshops, interviews, CRM reports
- Works within a team and individually to plan and execute on strategic and competitive intelligence activities and in support of university strategic objectives
- Works to perform the ethical gathering of information, and to analyze information in order to develop strategic and actionable intelligence to informs decision making
- Communicates findings articulately in a variety of document types and formats (e.g., text, graphics, charts, lists, tables, ) as appropriate to the client stakeholder’s needs and preferences
- Seek and incorporate feedback in all documents prepared prior to release
- Regularly contributes to the updating and curation of a library of intelligence documents
- Keeps current on research funding news
- Managing and leveraging internal database subscriptions to make sure relevant information is included in the foundation products
- Drive the roadmap for the team
Qualifications for competitive intelligence analyst
- Bright, self-starting, innovative thinker who is passionate about consumers and consumer products
- Able to collaborate within teams, global experience/exposure a plus
- Responsibility seeker
- Fast and accurate analyst, comfortable with data and can use it to tell a story, and the big picture
- Communicates effectively (verbal and written) with internal and external stakeholders across all levels
- Experience in CPG and/or supporting CPG organizations in management consulting/finance role
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Competitive Intelligence Analyst Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a competitive intelligence analyst. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for competitive intelligence analyst
- Monitor and provide timely analysis of competitive movements in the market to enable key members of the organization to make sound business decisions
- Coordinate the work of several analysts
- Influence in and outside the team and drive new projects
- Mine large data sets and turn them into understandable and actionable insights
- Master our internal analytic datasets and reporting tools and create reports or dashboards to monitor the competition
- Feed reporting tools with external datasets to enrich the human and data intelligence
- Define and execute a stream of analysis and tests to highlight competitive threat and inform decision making
- Maintain the CI / PTW SharePoint site other CI-specific repositories of information
- Provide CI training to all stakeholders across the company, to include those relative to CI tools, templates, workshops, processes
- Provide market intelligence information by means of interpreting the analysis data above
Qualifications for competitive intelligence analyst
- Intellectual curiosity - awareness of emerging trends and competitive activity in the sustainability space
- Comfort in ambiguity - adaptability in less-structured environments (able to "jump in" and contribute even when facts are not yet 100% clear)
- Must have the ability to work in a matrix environment where a high degree of collaboration is needed
- With direction, ability to understand, and translate customer insight/marketing research data tools and techniques into actionable insights to drive decision-making is required
- Some knowledge of and experience with competitive / marketplace research tools and analytics is required
- Knowledge of primary market research, secondary market research, or strategic forecasting is preferred
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of competitive intelligence analyst. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for competitive intelligence analyst
- Use product and industry knowledge to provide support in the product development process
- Work independently and across business teams to provide support on strategy projects, competitive and industry specific analysis
- Proactively derive insights for each business utilizing all available data sources (including internal stakeholders, business management teams and external resources, competitor financials, annual reports reviews)
- Provide well detailed market research to other organizations in the business
- Create reports / deliverables with insights that inform business decision making to be shared with executive management
- Implement plans and processes, where needed, to ensure smooth transfer and dissemination of knowledge across business teams
- Accurate monitoring and analysis of the latest trends and developments of the stock market and competitive landscape (including, but not limited to, daily market updates, competitive intelligence news-run, weekly management meeting debrief on competitive intelligence )
- The ideal candidate will be comfortable performing quantitative and qualitative research and analyses and will demonstrate proficiency in using data and information to develop insights and conclusions
- Utilizing a strong technical ability, sharp communication skills, and a broad understanding of the life sciences or related medical field, the incumbent will be able to effectively report findings both graphically and textually
- Success in this position will be driven by a natural curiosity, enthusiasm and flexibility
Qualifications for competitive intelligence analyst
- Must be able to work on multiple projects with conflicting deadlines
- Due to the nature of information reviewed in the role, candidate must demonstrate a high level of discretion and confidentiality
- Ability to organize and present information to internal business partnersMarket Research
- Bachelor's Degree in Economics, Business or related experience in a research field
- Passion to learn new, unfamiliar subjects or systems quickly without direct guidance
- Experience with application PaaS, integration PaaS, bpm PaaS technologies and others
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of competitive intelligence analyst. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for competitive intelligence analyst
- Provide market perspective to Strategy team, M&A, and New Business Development teams
- Conduct primary/secondary research and continuous monitoring related to markets, customers, intellectual property trends, competitive landscape, business environment, and analyst views
- Partner with the global business stakeholders to identify and understand key trends (short- to longer-term) and tie them to strategies and marketing initiatives
- Synthesize information across different functions and regions to ensure a deeper understanding of the business environment
- Contract and steer work scope with outside vendors, including consultants and business service providers, for market research
- Strong analytical capability to crunch large sets of customer data, usage behavior and other internal data needs
- Assist in developing recommendations based on internal and external research, while demonstrating insight and a strong ability to use data as the foundation
- Develops and maintains a clear competitive intelligence strategy across the IIG division
- Research and analyze market trends, including vendors, product technologies and services
- Work with cross-functional, cross-organizational teams to develop competitive positioning
Qualifications for competitive intelligence analyst
- Ability to analyze PaaS services to a fairly deep technical level such that analysis is useful for pre-sales/sales consultants (not just generalists)
- Prior experience in storage backup (either traditional or cloud) product analysis will receive strongest consideration
- Previous storage backup appliance product sales, industry analyst, product/field oriented CI, product management, or product marketing background strongly preferred
- Knowledge of software targeted for backup (middleware, database, applications), also a plus
- Deep insight into real-world customer issues, either through previous experience implementing or planning real-world enterprise customer storage backup solutions (from either the vendor or customer side), as an industry analyst, or by presenting storage solutions at customer briefings, a strong plus
- Excellent IT literacy Word, PowerPoint, Excel