Strategic Product Opportunity Analyst

Derrick Corporation; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Derrick Corporation, a family-owned company with a global presence, seeks an engineer-analyst to decide what Derrick builds rather than design it. You’ll turn raw product ideas into structured assessments on value, customer benefit, and feasibility for strategic opportunities.

This analytic role supports the leader of the strategic innovation function, grounding decisions in market sizing, competitive positioning, and business cases. Travel up to 15% to sites and events is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a technical discipline
• 2–6 years of professional experience in engineering/technical roles
• Interest in moving toward the business side of product decisions
• Comfort with ambiguity, and with having your thinking challenged
• Entrepreneurial instinct and proactive problem-solving
• Directness with evidence-based reasoning

Responsibilities

• Own the intake process for new product opportunities.
• Work opportunities through Derrick's staged assessment framework and answer if it is valuable to the customer, to Derrick, and feasible.
• Translate between technical possibility and business viability via collaboration with technical, commercial, and leadership teams.
• Go on-site with customers to test assumptions with plant managers and engineers.
• Develop real business judgment: size opportunities and understand competitive and pricing dynamics.
• Write opportunity assessments, market requirements documents, and executive-ready summaries.
• Travel up to 15% to customer sites, plants, and industry events.

Skills

Structured problem-solving

Technical credibility

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or technical discipline

Job description

Derrick Corporation, a family-owned company with a global presence, seeks an engineer-analyst to decide what Derrick builds rather than design it. You’ll turn raw product ideas into structured assessments on value, customer benefit, and feasibility for strategic opportunities.

This analytic role supports the leader of the strategic innovation function, grounding decisions in market sizing, competitive positioning, and business cases. Travel up to 15% to sites and events is expected.