Market Intelligence Analyst

Hitachi Digital LLC; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global technology company is seeking a Market Intelligence Analyst to join their Birmingham office. This role involves shaping global strategies by analyzing market trends and competitor behavior to drive business success. Candidates should have substantial experience in market research, excellent analytical abilities, and strong communication skills. A passion for data-driven decision-making is essential in contributing to the company's growth and market presence.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Industry-leading benefits and support

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of professional experience, including 5+ years in market research.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Conduct market sizing and trend analysis.
• Build detailed profiles of global and regional accounts.
• Analyse competitors’ performance and inform positioning.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Strategic mindset

Education

10 years of professional experience

Job description

We’re Hitachi Digital, a company at the forefront of digital transformation and the fastest growing division of Hitachi Group. We’re crucial to the company’s strategy and ambition to become a premier global player in the massive and fast-moving digital transformation market.

Our group companies, including GlobalLogic, Hitachi Digital Services, Hitachi Vantara and more, offer comprehensive services that span the entire digital lifecycle, from initial idea to full-scale operation and the infrastructure to run it on. Hitachi Digital represents One Hitachi, integrating domain knowledge and digital capabilities, and harnessing the power of the entire portfolio of services, technologies, and partnerships, to accelerate synergy creation and make real-world impact for our customers and society as a whole.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to unleash a digital future. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

The team

Are you passionate about turning data into strategic insight? This is a rare and exciting opportunity for a Market Intelligence Analyst to join Hitachi's Global Marketing & Sales (GM&S) team, a high-profile corporate initiative at the very center of the Hitachi Group.

As a Market Intelligence Analyst, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping our global strategy. You’ll dive deep into market trends, competitor landscapes, customer needs to uncover opportunities that drive real business impact, and bring the voice of the marketplace into Hitachi to enable an agile, customer-centric growth organization.

About GM&S

Hitachi is transforming to ensure sustainable growth and profitability in digital and green sectors by establishing a customer-centric business model. Part of this transformation is setting up global account management to better understand customer needs and increase Hitachi's market share.

This transformation is led by GM&S, whose vision is to become our customers’ preferred partner of choice for their most critical challenges by providing impactful, sustainable solutions, delivered by experts spanning the full breadth of Hitachi’s portfolio.

The role

• Take ownership of specific areas of market intelligence, whether it’s segment insights or account profiling, you’ll lead the charge.
• Conduct market sizing and trend analysis across key sectors like Mobility and Data Centers.
• Build detailed profiles of global and regional accounts, identifying their strategies, challenges, and where Hitachi can win.
• Analyse competitors’ performance, strategies, and product pipelines to inform our positioning.
• Support strategic initiatives such as go-to-market planning, M&A scoping, and economic/trade analysis.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to embed insights into business strategies and foster customer-first thinking.
• Present your findings in compelling ways through presentations, workshops, and working sessions with senior stakeholders.
• Manage relationships with external research vendors, ensuring high standards and ethical research practices.
• Contribute to the evolution of our AI-powered insights tool.

What you’ll bring

• At least 10 years of professional experience, including 5+ years in market research.
• A proven ability to thrive in complex, fast-changing environments.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills - you’re comfortable working with unstructured data and extracting

meaningful insights.

• A strategic mindset with a talent for identifying the “so what” behind the data.
• Excellent communication skills in English (Japanese is a plus).
• Experience in a strategy consultancy or market research agency is a bonus, but not essential.

About us

We’re a global, 1000-strong, diverse team of professional experts, promoting and delivering Social Innovation through our One Hitachi initiative (OT x IT x Product) and working on projects that have a real-world impact. We’re curious, passionate and empowered, blending our legacy of 110 years of innovation with our shaping our future. Here you’re not just another employee; you’re part of a tradition of excellence and a community working towards creating a digital future.

Championing diversity, equity, and inclusion

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are integral to our culture and identity. Diverse thinking, a commitment to allyship, and a culture of empowerment help us achieve powerful results. We want you to be you, with all the ideas, lived experience, and fresh perspective that brings. We support your uniqueness and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our team.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.

Georgia Venetsanakos

Empathy is important. When we love working with the people around us, we like coming into work and dealing with those people every day.

Lynda Brown

My experience has taught me to give people chances - it’s amazing to see how much they can flourish when you do.

Gregory Mason

I love to have discussions with employees and managers on what we can do to support the overall wellbeing of our teams.

Don’t wait to take charge of your career.

Prasanthi Sathyaprakash

Working as a group has always given me energy and kept me motivated, we can deliver amazing results as a collective.

Mehdi H. Choudhury

Hitachi’s commitment to sustainability and proactiveness to support clients as a social responsibility makes me excited about the future.

Kinga Wos-Ryske

Hitachi offers great work-life balance, and flexible working arrangements - from remote to hybrid. If you are interested in comprehensive and competitive perks and benefits, you will find it all here.

Georgia Venetsanakos

Empathy is important. When we love working with the people around us, we like coming into work and dealing with those people every day.

Lynda Brown

My experience has taught me to give people chances - it’s amazing to see how much they can flourish when you do.

Gregory Mason

I love to have discussions with employees and managers on what we can do to support the overall wellbeing of our teams.

Don’t wait to take charge of your career.

Prasanthi Sathyaprakash

Working as a group has always given me energy and kept me motivated, we can deliver amazing results as a collective.

Mehdi H. Choudhury

Hitachi’s commitment to sustainability and proactiveness to support clients as a social responsibility makes me excited about the future.

Kinga Wos-Ryske

Hitachi offers great work-life balance, and flexible working arrangements - from remote to hybrid. If you are interested in comprehensive and competitive perks and benefits, you will find it all here.

Georgia Venetsanakos

Empathy is important. When we love working with the people around us, we like coming into work and dealing with those people every day.