Strategic Market Intelligence Leader

Canon Production Printing; Venlo; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

38 days annual leave

8% holiday allowance

Hybrid working

Job summary

Canon Production Printing in Venlo, the Netherlands, is seeking a Senior Market Intelligence Analyst to join the Market Intelligence team within the Product Planning & Market Intelligence department. You will analyze market developments, customer behaviour, competitors, and macroeconomic factors affecting the digital commercial printing market.

You will lead analyses, develop market outlooks and strategic scenarios, and translate insights into recommendations for senior management.

Qualifications

• Completed academic degree or equivalent academic-level working and thinking ability.
• At least 8 to 10 years of relevant experience in an international, high-tech production or development organisation with multiple stakeholders.
• Proven experience influencing and advising stakeholders at top management level, including SVP level.
• Excellent advisory, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent command of business English; proficiency in Dutch and German is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Leading market, customer, and competitor analyses to identify strategic growth opportunities and business risks at an early stage.
• Developing market outlooks, strategic scenarios, forecasts, and opportunity assessments to support portfolio and investment decisions.
• Translating market developments into strategic recommendations for the Mid Term Plan (MTP) and Long Term Plan (LTP) cycles, portfolio management, innovation prioritization, and business cases.
• Preparing executive-level analyses and the annual Market Chapter, transforming complex data and market signals into clear conclusions, implications, and strategic options.
• Challenging assumptions and influencing decision-making by bringing an independent, market-driven perspective to discussions about value propositions, roadmaps, and go-to-market strategies.
• Coordinating data and insight projects and maintaining relationships with research institutes, industry associations, analysts, and opinion leaders.
• Continuously improving methods, frameworks, data sources, and tools for market research, forecasting, and AI-enabled insight generation, both for yourself and for the team.

Education

Completed academic degree or equivalent

Job description

Canon Production Printing in Venlo, the Netherlands, is seeking a Senior Market Intelligence Analyst to join the Market Intelligence team within the Product Planning & Market Intelligence department. You will analyze market developments, customer behaviour, competitors, and macroeconomic factors affecting the digital commercial printing market.

You will lead analyses, develop market outlooks and strategic scenarios, and translate insights into recommendations for senior management.