Principal Market Analyst

Principal Marketing Analyst, Crawley; 9-month contract; Inside IR35We currently have a requirement for a Principal Marketing Analyst based in Crawley working for a Thales UK Limited This role will be responsible for providing analysis and insight of markets and competitors relating to the Integrated Airspace Protection (IAS) business winning activity and offer development.The business winning component of the role is significant and entails the provision of black hat, value prop, partnering / make-team-buy and price to win analyses relating to major prospects. .Key Responsibilities:Support to business winning activity, to include daily tracking of relevant contract notices and distribution to Sales team in a timely fashionAnalysis of data to provide synthesis of key market characteristics & competitor profiling:o Market: Construction of forecast models to provide insight on market size, profile, geography and timescales. Generating market analysis from these forecast models to provide input to PLMs in support of business case decision reviews.o Competitor: capabilities, product offerings, pricing datapoint research; potential partner organisation identification.Supporting the UK Strategy & Marketing Plaza business intelligence system on a daily basis by screening & uploading news articles, reports & analyses etc ensuring that they do not contain any information above company internal or any classified or company sensitive material.Responsibilities may also include providing support to the main system administrator, covering:o Providing usage reports, as requiredo Co-ordinating training for usersSupporting the strategic business planning process and MoD key account managers by providing supporting analysis to inform market trends & drivers, market sizing and competitive intensityStays appraised of key competitor marketing messages and proactively shares these with Comms and the Strategy & Marketing Sector leads to improve company product positioningSkills and Experience requiredEssentialResearch - able to identify the best way to research a new problem. Understands all the tools available to them, Willing to approach individuals to gather primary intelligenceForecasting - Able to use appropriate advanced mathematical modelling techniques and build assumptions where little data exists to generate long-term market projections and derive clear recommendations in which the business has confidence, despite market uncertaintyTrends, Patterns and Models - Able to identify trends and patterns within data they have modelled. Seeks to identify what is driving any trends and is able to explain the impactExperience – Experience of undertaking market and competitor analysis in the UK defence marketPresentation – Ability to synthesise outputs from analysis to insights and implications to the business and present findings in a clear and compelling way.DesirableExperience of Market Analysis in the Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance and/or Electronic Warfare domainStrategic Business Planning – Experience of undertaking Strategic Business PlanningMorson is acting as an employment business in relation to this vacancy.