Role Description
Provide evidence-based insights into companies, industries, and external developments to support strategic decisions. Combine structured research, source validation, and analysis to identify opportunities, assess risks, and explain their implications for the organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Define research questions, scope, information requirements, and delivery timelines.
- Gather information from company filings, industry publications, databases, interviews, and other approved sources.
- Assess source credibility, reconcile conflicting information, and document references.
- Analyze business models, financial performance, competitive positioning, and industry structures.
- Evaluate market size, growth drivers, customer trends, and emerging technologies.
- Monitor competitors and relevant economic, policy, and geopolitical developments.
- Develop scenarios and identify indicators that could signal strategic change.
- Prepare reports, company profiles, briefings, and presentations.
- Distinguish verified facts, estimates, assumptions, and analytical judgments.
- Communicate uncertainty, information gaps, and research limitations clearly.
- Maintain research repositories, datasets, and monitoring frameworks.
- Use lawful research methods and protect confidential information.
Role-Specific Responsibilities
- Corporate Research Analyst: Conduct company and market research to support corporate planning, investment evaluation, business development, and other internal decisions.
- Strategic Intelligence Analyst: Connect developments across competitors, markets, technology, and the wider operating environment. Produce forward-looking assessments, early warnings, and strategic implications.
- Industry Research Associate: Own defined sector research workstreams, analyze industry economics and value chains, and contribute to reports and forecasts with appropriate review.
Qualifications
- Relevant experience in corporate research, competitive intelligence, industry analysis, consulting, financial analysis, or a related field.
- Strong research, analytical, and critical-thinking skills.
- Understanding of business models, financial statements, and market dynamics.
- Proficiency in spreadsheets, presentation tools, and relevant research platforms.
- Ability to synthesize complex information into clear findings and recommendations.
- Strong writing, source documentation, and fact-checking skills.
- Effective stakeholder communication and organizational skills.
- Ability to manage competing deadlines and work with incomplete information.
- Sound judgment, professional integrity, and discretion.
- A degree in business, economics, finance, political science, international relations, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- For associate roles, experience independently delivering defined research and analytical assignments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Relevant industry expertise or knowledge of assigned markets.
- Familiarity with market sizing, scenario analysis, forecasting, or structured intelligence methods.
- Experience with financial databases, public records, or expert interviews.
- Knowledge of SQL, Python, business intelligence tools, or research automation.
- Additional language skills relevant to monitored markets.
- Experience presenting findings to senior decision-makers.
Scope by Role
- Corporate Research Analyst: Provides company and market insights for defined business decisions.
- Strategic Intelligence Analyst: Assesses interconnected developments and their implications for future strategy and risk.
- Industry Research Associate: Delivers in-depth sector analysis and supports evidence-based industry outlooks.