Market Intelligence Manager

Hitachi Vantara Corporation; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Market Intelligence Manager to drive insights based on market trends and competitor analysis. This role, based in the UK with remote options, requires over 10 years of experience in market research and strong analytical skills. The position includes collaboration with various teams to foster customer-first strategies, and it offers industry-leading benefits and a commitment to diversity.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Industry-leading benefits

Support for holistic health and wellbeing

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of professional experience, including 5+ years in market research.
• Ability to thrive in complex, fast-changing environments.
• Experience in strategy consultancy or market research agency is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of market intelligence areas.
• Conduct market sizing and trend analysis.
• Analyze competitors' performance and strategies.

Skills

Numerical and analytical skills

Excellent communication skills in English

Strategic mindset

Job description

Overview

Location: United Kingdom, Remote

Function: HEU Partnership

Requisition ID: 1034407

Global Marketing & Sales | Market Intelligence Manager

Are you passionate about turning data into strategic insight? This is a rare and exciting opportunity for a Market Intelligence Manager to join Hitachi's Global Marketing & Sales (GM&S) team, a high-profile corporate initiative at the very center of the Hitachi Group.

As a Market Intelligence Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping our global strategy. You'll dive deep into market trends, competitor landscapes, customer needs to uncover opportunities that drive real business impact, and bring the voice of the marketplace into Hitachi to enable an agile, customer-centric growth organization.

About GM&S

Hitachi is transforming to ensure sustainable growth and profitability in digital and green sectors by establishing a customer-centric business model. Part of this transformation is setting up global account management to better understand customer needs and increase Hitachi's market share.

This transformation is led by GM&S, whose vision is to become our customers' preferred partner of choice for their most critical challenges by providing impactful, sustainable solutions, delivered by experts spanning the full breadth of Hitachi's portfolio.

What you'll do

• Take ownership of specific areas of market intelligence, whether it's sector insights or account profiling, you'll lead the charge.
• Conduct market sizing and trend analysis across key sectors; for example Mobility and Data Centers.
• Build detailed profiles of global and regional accounts, identifying their strategies, challenges, and where Hitachi can win.
• Analyze competitors' performance, strategies, and product pipelines to inform our positioning.
• Support global strategic initiatives such as go-to-market planning, M&A scoping, and economic/trade analysis.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams from other Hitachi business units to embed insights into business strategies and foster customer-first thinking.
• Present your findings in compelling ways through presentations, workshops, and working sessions with senior stakeholders.
• Manage relationships with external research vendors, ensuring high standards and ethical research practices.
• Contribute to the evolution of our AI-powered insights tool.

What you'll bring

• At least 10 years of professional experience, including 5+ years in market research.
• A proven ability to thrive in complex, fast-changing environments.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills - you're comfortable working with unstructured data and extracting meaningful insights.
• A strategic mindset with a talent for identifying the "so what" behind the data.
• Excellent communication skills in English (Japanese is a plus).
• Experience in a strategy consultancy or market research agency is a bonus, but not essential.

About us

We're a global, 1000-strong, diverse team of professional experts, promoting and delivering Social Innovation through our One Hitachi initiative (OT x IT x Product) and working on projects that have a real-world impact. We're curious, passionate and empowered, blending our legacy of 110 years of innovation with our shaping our future. Here you're not just another employee; you're part of a tradition of excellence and a community working towards creating a digital future.

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Championing diversity, equity, and inclusion

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are integral to our culture and identity. Diverse thinking, a commitment to allyship, and a culture of empowerment help us achieve powerful results. We want you to be you, with all the ideas, lived experience, and fresh perspective that brings. We support your uniqueness and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our team.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.