Research Analyst, Manufacturing Tech

**Company Description**
Do you want to develop your career and make an impact in the fast-growth, fast-moving B2B technology space?

We’re a vibrant community of world-class practitioners - over 2000 colleagues strong - with offices in 19 locations around the world. We’re traded on Nasdaq and also part of Informa PLC, a global leader in business-to-business events, digital services, and academic research in the FTSE 100.

**About Informa TechTarget**

**Informa TechTarget (Nasdaq: TTGT) informs, influences and connects the world’s technology buyers and sellers, to accelerate growth from R&D to ROI.**

With an unparalleled reach of over 220 highly targeted technology-specific websites and more than 50 million permissioned first-party audience members, Informa TechTarget has a unique understanding of and insight into technology markets.

Underpinned by those audiences and their data, we offer expert-led, data-driven, and digitally enabled services that deliver significant impact and measurable outcomes to our clients. We provide our customers with:

- Trusted information that shapes the industry and informs investment
- Intelligence and advice that guides and influences strategy
- Advertising that grows reputation and establishes thought leadership
- Custom content that engages and prompts action
- Intent and demand generation that more precisely targets and converts

**Job Description** This role is based in our Menara Skymind office.**

We’re now looking for a **Research Analyst** to join our **Manufacturing Technology** team

Key responsibilities will be:

- Scoping - Using customer centric feedback to direct minor scope changes; keeping the research fresh by understanding customer needs/questions; enhancing the research each cycle and continually adding value to ensure we have clear USP; working with direct management to support research changes
- Writing - Providing qualitative analysis to support and justify data with a focus on change and development; use a text plan and outline structure to support concise output; discuss the impact of technology and key market trends
- Thought leadership - Produce written insights and press material to support research outputs
- Sales support - Partner with the sales team to generate new leads, progress existing leads, and support renewals; use scoping to continually evolve the research offering
- Event support - Partner with the events team to further Omdia’s position in the space, to build a platform for showcasing our research, and to develop new research propositions based on intelligence gathered at events
- Primary research - conducting interviews with key industry contacts across a spectrum of company types; attending trade shows; some F2F visits to support relationship development; creating a detailed log of interactions and feedback
- Secondary research - using a range of secondary sources to support primary research including - the internet, trade journals, in-house research, trade associations, public reports, financial releases, company press releases
- Building base data - Using primary and secondary research to build credible base data; ensuring sufficient coverage of market players; creating estimates; utilising history; ensuring consistency with related data/markets; logging all assumptions and working in a clear way
- Forecasting - Using primary and secondary research to generate market projections; using credible sources to support forecasts; logging all assumptions and working in a clear way; creating the story around market development/opportunities/risks

**Qualifications**
- Experience in market research, industrial automation or manufacturing technology domain.
- Excel - solid grasp of Excel for data building, data manipulation, and pivot table creation
- Experience working collaboratively towards a common goal
- Ability to think outside the box in approaching problems to find innovative solutions
- Prioritizing time for competing tasks
- Writing detailed reports in a structured and concise way to capture key research highlights
- Primary research interview and data gathering skills
- Multitasking - ability to prioritize competing tasks effectively
- Ability to piece together data from multiple sources and to connect the dots
- Use assumptions and logical thinking to create estimates and forecast
- Strong grasp of manufacturing macro-economic environment

**Additional Information**
We believe that great things happen when people connect face-to-face. That's why we work in-person with each other, or with customers and partners, three days a week or more. When you’re not spending time together in one of our offices or other workplaces - like at an Informa event - you get the flexibility and support to work from home or remotely.

Informa TechTarget complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act, and all applicable federal, state or local law.

**Our benefits include**:

- ** Great community**: a wel