Technology Analyst – Market Research, Consultancy

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Technology Analyst researching emerging technologies for IDTechEx, a market research and consultancy firm. Producing forecasts, reports and client insights while supporting business development and global promotion.

Responsibilities:

  • Assist companies in understanding technically complex emerging technologies and associated commercial challenges and opportunities
  • Conduct detailed research through interviews, event attendance, patent analysis and tracking global trends
  • Assess commercial opportunities of emerging technologies
  • Write company profiles assessing technologies, readiness levels and market need
  • Compile research into articles and reports covering technology assessments, market insights, market opportunities and forecasts
  • Provide custom research for clients' consulting requests
  • Support business development by demonstrating technical and commercial knowledge to potential clients
  • Determine customer research needs
  • Promote IDTechEx and research through articles, webinars, video interviews, media responses, presentations and infographics
  • Represent IDTechEx at international events and organizational visits
  • Present research findings and strategic insights
  • Assist with training programs and topic-specific strategies
  • Help the business development team win new opportunities and champion the company
  • Travel internationally to learn about developments, meet customers and innovative companies, disseminate knowledge and promote IDTechEx

Requirements:

  • Strong record of academic achievement, including A/A* A-Level Mathematics
  • Master's degree ideally from a top UK or internationally ranked university
  • Some technical/commercial experience is preferable
  • Desire and drive to continuously learn about technology innovations, their real-world applications, market status and player activities
  • Excellent ability to seek out and present compelling new information and articulate an analysis verbally and in writing, with accompanying visuals
  • Comfortable calling and talking to many people in a business-to-business environment
  • Ability to effectively question interviewees to compile useful research
  • Excellent capability to distil significant levels of information from multiple sources into clear, relevant analysis and conclusions
  • Strong attention to detail and quantitative problem-solving skills
  • Experienced user of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint
  • Confident giving technical presentations in front of an audience
  • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and collaboratively
  • Ability to coach and motivate others when necessary
  • Must be able to commit to regular travel
  • Strong English language skills
  • Proficiency in Chinese, German, Japanese or Korean is advantageous but not necessary

Benefits:

  • Investment in your training including management, leadership, presentation skills, software proficiency
  • International travel to East Asia, Europe and US
  • Varied work: engage with clients, leading technology developers, write assessments, present and promote your work
  • Clear promotion path
  • Competitive pay with discretionary bonuses
  • Discretionary benefits including life insurance and private medical insurance
  • Pension scheme with employer contribution
  • Rapid personal and professional growth
  • Opportunities to develop towards project and people management