Strategic Intelligence Analyst

Cooley LLP; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent benefits

PTO 21 days

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

Cooley LLP seeks a Competitive Intelligence Analyst to join the Data Delivery team in San Diego, CA. The role focuses on in-depth research, data retrieval, and actionable intelligence to support growth, client retention, and strategic decisions.

Responsibilities include creating reports, visualizing market trends, monitoring news and litigation, and contributing to CI processes and innovations across practice groups. Senior candidates may be considered based on experience.

Qualifications

• 4+ years' direct applicable experience in competitive intelligence or related research
• Experience using external intelligence tools and resources to inform business decisions
• Experience presenting analyses to leadership and cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

• Conduct in-depth, tailored research and analysis of companies, industries, technologies, markets and competitors; communicate insightful and actionable intelligence to support strategic decision making to drive business development, profitability, growth, client retention and other business opportunities
• Retrieve accurate and relevant data using a wide array of data sources, and utilize sophisticated reporting tools including visualization tools to present and highlight trends and patterns
• Create and report weekly/monthly financing deal data specific to different industries and/or geographies as part of our suite of proactive business development work products
• Monitor vast amount of news and litigation filings to provide practice group leaders with actionable intelligence
• Keep abreast of news and events related to firm clients/industries/verticals/competitors; proactively distil and distribute intelligence when appropriate
• Contribute to the development of advanced current awareness services relating to clients, targets, industries, competitors and other topics for business development and market visibility opportunities
• Develop market data visualization utilizing visualization tools
• Take part in the development of the mission and vision for the CI team, formulating processes and developing best practices
• Participate in the promotion, development and maturing of the CI function to all relevant practice groups, leadership and selected support departments including Marketing and Business Development
• Take part in Innovation projects implementing products and services where CI is a component or CI skills are relevant
• Take part in Innovation projects implementing products and services where business/matter data is component or data skills are relevant
• Create and prepare presentation materials and make effective presentations when required
• Evaluate and select CI systems and tools and keep up to date in developments and best practices in the CI field
• Represent Innovation in the local office, at firm wide events
• Participate in special projects, as needed
• All other duties as assigned or required

Skills

Competitive intelligence

Market analysis

Data presentation

Advanced Excel

Legal services knowledge

Cross-functional collaboration

Written communication

Education

Bachelor or Master of Library/Information Science Degree

JD

Tools

PitchBook

CapitalIQ

Deal Point Data

LSEG Workspace

Mergermarket

Westlaw Litigation Analytics

Bloomberg Law

CRMs

BI dashboards

Job description

Cooley LLP seeks a Competitive Intelligence Analyst to join the Data Delivery team in San Diego, CA. The role focuses on in-depth research, data retrieval, and actionable intelligence to support growth, client retention, and strategic decisions.

Responsibilities include creating reports, visualizing market trends, monitoring news and litigation, and contributing to CI processes and innovations across practice groups. Senior candidates may be considered based on experience.