Junior Crisis Analyst
Samster, Konkel & Safran Law Offices
Technology Analyst – Tech Scouting, Market Research, Consultancy
IDTechEx
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £33,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Assess technology innovations and their commercial opportunity by conducting detailed research by a variety of methods, including interviews with innovators and adopters (by telephone and face-to-face), event attendance, patent analysis, tracking global trends and other methods.
- Based on your direct interactions with people from global organizations, write profiles of organizations throughout the value chain, assessing them versus competitors and the market need for their solution.
- Compile research into articles and reports, covering technology assessments; market insights; analysis of market opportunities and forecasts that you develop to quantify the opportunity.
- Provide custom research to clients for their specific consulting requests, which can include assessment of their technology and market opportunity, strategic advice on market entry and due diligence.
- Support colleagues in business development by demonstration of your topic knowledge to potential clients and determine their needs.
- Actively promote IDTechEx and your own research by writing enticing articles summarizing your research, delivering webinars, conducting video interviews, answering questions from media, delivering public presentations and helping to develop infographics.
- Represent IDTechEx at international events and by visiting organizations, from introducing the company and what we do to presenting your work.
- You will be expected to present your research findings and strategic insights.
- Assist other aspects of the business including training programs and developing topic-specific strategies.
- Be proactive in helping our business development team win new opportunities and being a champion for the company.
Requirements
- A strong record of academic achievement, including A/A* A-Level Mathematics and an Undergraduate/Master's degree in Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, Biology, Material Science or other relevant subjects, ideally from a top UK or internationally ranked university.
- A PhD is desirable but not essential.
- Some technical/commercial experience is preferable, demonstrating skills such as engaging with customers/potential customers, meeting objectives, demonstration of commercial acumen etc.
- A strong curiosity and drive to continuously learn about technology innovations and trends, their real-world applications, market status and player activities.
- Excellent ability to seek out and present compelling new information and articulate an analysis both verbally and in writing, with accompanying visuals (charts, infographics, etc.).
- Be comfortable with calling and talking to many people in a business to business environment.
- Effectively question interviewees to compile research useful in assessing a particular technology or industry.
- Excellent capability to distill significant levels of information from multiple sources into clear, relevant analysis and conclusions.
- Strong attention to detail and quantitative problem-solving skills.
- Experienced user of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Must be confident in giving technical presentations in front of an audience.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision as well as having a collaborative attitude to your work.
- You will be expected to be part of a team and coach and motivate others when necessary.
- You must be able to commit to regular travel.
- In addition to strong English language skills, it would be advantageous, but not necessary, to be proficient in another language, in particular Chinese, German, Japanese or Korean.
Benefits
- Investment in your training and professional development including management, leadership, presentation skills, software proficiency
- International travel to East Asia, Europe and/or US
- Varied work: engage with clients, leading technology developers, write assessments, present and promote your work
- Clear promotion path
- Competitive pay with discretionary bonuses
- Discretionary benefits including life insurance and private medical insurance
- Pension scheme with employer contribution
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
A/A* A-Level MathematicsUndergraduate degree in PhysicsUndergraduate degree in ChemistryUndergraduate degree in EngineeringUndergraduate degree in BiologyUndergraduate degree in Material SciencePhDQuantitative problem-solvingResearch analysisTechnical presentations
Soft skills
CuriosityDrive to learnCommunicationAttention to detailCollaborationCoachingMotivationCustomer engagementAnalytical thinkingProactive approach
