Principal Analyst, Data Center

Informa

Principal Analyst leading Data Center Thermal Management research at Omdia. Leveraging deep technical expertise in power and cooling technologies for client advisory services.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇳 ChinaLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Deliver insightful research
Alongside the Data Center team, contribute to and create high quality research in the form of reports, trackers, forecasts, and presentations.
Develop and test hypotheses that challenge existing beliefs within a market to provide unique insight.
Use all the tools and knowledge at your disposal to produce analysis that goes beyond the descriptive to give Omdia the edge over its competition.
Market high-level industry expertise
Use your expertise and experience to define and expand an area of research.
Market that expertise at a senior level within our clients and prospects.
Provide a timely response to market events and offer up-to-date opinions founded on broad-based experience.
Build and maintain client relationships
Over time, and as your career progresses at Omdia and Informa TechTarget, maintain and extend your network of client relationships.
Become a trusted advisor to these clients.
Ensure effective client management
Build and manage ongoing relationships with clients.
Represent Omdia and Informa TechTarget, demonstrating your expertise in UPS and thermal management, as well as taking a broad view of the data center and technology ecosystem and its delivery of business outcomes.
Support sales, marketing, product management, and PR teams.
Participate in client-facing meetings with the sales team and add credibility to Omdia and Informa TechTarget relationships.
Expand strategic planning involvement
Offer insight to our planning meetings.
Work closely with the Chief Analyst, Practice Leader, and Research Directors to drive the direction and strategy of the team.
Through the understanding of client needs based on senior-level relationships, develop a customer-based point of view for new products and advisory services.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of professional experience
Experience in the data center ecosystem either as an industry analyst or in the wider ecosystem
Solid technical understanding and insight of cooling technologies and power infrastructure in data centers, and the ability to quickly form credible, distinctive, compelling, and original opinions on how aspects of these will evolve, and why.
Quantitative research, with the ability to build, maintain, and enhance market forecasts and trackers, and present complex concepts and trends from data in a compelling manner.
Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex ideas.
Strong verbal communication and presentation skills, including a personable manner and the confidence to present to, engage with, and influence executives at the highest levels of the industry.
The ability to build and enhance a profile with industry contacts and opinion formers.
The ability to quickly and coherently identify and communicate critical issues impacting the commercial performance of Omdia’s vendor clients across the data center ecosystem.
Experience of working with sales and marketing teams to identify and successfully capitalize on business development opportunities.
A proven track record of managing a workload to ensure deadlines are met and client expectations are exceeded.
Ability to travel domestically and internationally.
Cultural awareness, as the role involves working with global clients and within a global virtual team environment.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Freedom & flexibility: colleagues rate us highly for the flexibility and trust they receive and most of us balance time in the office with time working remotely
Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active diversity and inclusion networks
Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer, with charity match funding available too
Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When it’s time for the next step, we encourage and support internal job moves
Time out: annual leave, birthday leave and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
A flexible range of personal benefits to choose from, plus company funded private medical cover
A ShareMatch scheme that allows you to become an Informa shareholder with free matching shares
Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, a healthy living subsidy, access to health apps and more
Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programmes
As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world

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Hard Skills & Tools

quantitative researchmarket forecastsdata analysiscooling technologiespower infrastructurereport writingpresentation skillshypothesis developmentdata trackingclient management

Soft Skills

written communicationverbal communicationpresentation skillsrelationship buildingstrategic planningclient advisorynetworkingtime managementcultural awarenessinfluencing skills