Market Intelligence Analyst

Lenovo; Morrisville (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Lenovo in Morrisville, NC seeks a seasoned Analyst to shape market and competitive intelligence, build business cases, and drive transformation initiatives. You will map requirements, develop KPIs, and present findings to executives to influence decisions.

Strong Excel, Power BI/Tableau, and SQL skills, plus experience with financial modeling, benchmarking, and stakeholder facilitation, are required. This role emphasizes rigorous analysis and clear storytelling to enable value realization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in a relevant field.
• 3+ years of experience in business analysis, strategy, consulting, finance, operations, transformation, analytics, or process improvement.
• Experience with process mapping, requirements analysis, external benchmarking, financial modelling, scenario analysis, or benefits realization.
• Demonstrated ability to structure complex problems, analyze evidence, and develop clear recommendations.
• Projects involving research, analytics, and storytelling.

Responsibilities

• Structure ambiguous business challenges into clear questions, hypotheses, and analysis plans.
• Build internal and external fact bases using data, market intelligence, and benchmarks.
• Identify emerging technologies and market inflection points to inform scoping.
• Develop business cases, scenarios, and KPIs to support prioritization and investment decisions.
• Translate analysis into executive-ready stories, dashboards, and recommendations.
• Support post-implementation reviews and transfer of knowledge.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder facilitation

Storytelling with data

Financial modeling

Benchmarking

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, finance, economics, engineering, information systems, operations, or equivalent

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

SQL

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

* United States of America - North Carolina - Morrisville

Why Work at Lenovo

We are Lenovo. We do what we say. We own what we do. We WOW our customers.

Lenovo is a US$83 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #153 in the Fortune Global 500, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (server, storage, edge, high performance computing and software defined infrastructure), software, solutions, and services. Lenovo’s continued investment in world-changing innovation is building a more equitable, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange under Lenovo Group Limited (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY).

This transformation together with Lenovo’s world-changing innovation is building a more inclusive, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. To find out more visit www.lenovo.com , and read about the latest news via our StoryHub .

Description and Requirements

In this role, the analyst will work with other intelligence professionals and stakeholders to perform the following activities :

• Forming market and segment opportunity estimates
• Completing competitor or industry benchmarks
• Conducting process analysis and gathering business requirements
• Developing business cases and financial models to support transformation initiatives
• Facilitating stakeholder discussions and alignment across functions
• Preparing executive-level communications and recommendations
• Defining and tracking KPIs to measure progress and outcomes
• Supporting benefits realization and ensuring value is captured from transformation efforts.

The individual will use third-party sources as well as their own research to develop perspective supporting a specific business question or hypothesis. The analyst will present findings to executive and non-executive stakeholders and integrate activities into business management systems where appropriate.

Responsibilities

Problem framing & opportunity discovery

• Structure ambiguous business challenges into clear decision questions, hypotheses, analytical workplans, and decision criteria.
• Build internal and external fact bases using business data, stakeholder input, market intelligence, competitor benchmarks, and best-in-class practices.

Market, Industry & Competitive Intelligence to facilitate project scoping

• Identify emerging technologies, disruptive trends, investment patterns, and potential market inflection points.
• Assess customer investment priorities, infrastructure requirements, and purchasing behavior.
• Translate customer signals into actionable business recommendations.
• Help produce competitive assessments.

Analysis and decision support

• Map current-state processes, operating models, capabilities, and pain points to define evidence-based future-state requirements and design principles.
• Analyze operational, financial, customer, workforce, process, market, and portfolio data to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Evaluate solution options against strategic fit, user needs, feasibility, value, and implementation risk, and validate solution integrity during delivery.
• Develop business cases, scenarios, sensitivities, value bridges, KPIs, baselines, and quantified options to support prioritization and investment decisions.
• Translate complex analysis into concise executive storylines, dashboards, decision papers, options, recommendations, and clear requests internally.
• Translate approved recommendations into priorities, owners, milestones, governance inputs, and analytical requirements for execution teams.
• Facilitate interviews, workshops, and working sessions to test hypotheses, align stakeholders, clarify requirements, and build ownership.
• Track KPIs, benefits, risks, adoption, and performance; identify variance, value leakage, or emerging issues and recommend corrective action.
• Support post-implementation reviews, business-as-usual handoff, and capture of reusable methods, models, insights, and lessons learned.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, engineering, information systems, operations, or equivalent professional experience
• 3 + years of experience in business analysis, strategy, consulting, finance, operations, transformation, analytics, or process improvement
• Experience with process mapping, requirements analysis, external benchmarking, financial modelling, scenario analysis, or benefits realization
• Demonstrated ability to structure complex problems, analyze quantitative and qualitative evidence, and develop clear recommendations.
• Demonstrated projects involving research, analytics, and storytelling.
• Strong facilitation skills to work across a diverse set of stakeholders and problem types.

Preferred Requirements

• Advanced capability in Excel and PowerPoint, with experience using Power BI, Tableau, SQL, or comparable analytics and visualization tools.
• Familiarity with Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, change management, or continuous-improvement methods; relevant certification such as CBAP or Lean Six Sigma is beneficial.
• Practical digital and AI literacy, including responsible use of AI to accelerate research, analysis, modelling, synthesis, and insight generation while validating outputs.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any federal, state, or local protected class.