IDC - Senior Market Analyst/Market Analyst - Research

JD- Research Analyst

IDC is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. IDC helps IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community make fact-based decisions on technology purchases and business strategy. More than 1,100 IDC analysts provide global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends in over 110 countries worldwide. For 50 years IDC has provided strategic insights to help our clients achieve their key business objectives. IDC's Insights businesses provide industry-focused advice for IT buyers in the Financial, Government, Health, Retail, Manufacturing and Energy verticals. IDC is a subsidiary of IDG, the world's leading technology media, research, and events company. You can learn more about IDC by visiting www.idc.com.

AVAILABLE ROLE :

- We are seeking for a highly motivated analytically and technology driven individual for the Senior Market Analyst/Market Analyst role for IDC's Software and Services research.

- The role is primarily focused on strengthening the software and services research including emerging technologies for India Market. The individual will be involved in building thought leadership reports for domain research and support senior analysts on customer engagement activities.

Key Responsibilities:

- Clear understanding of IT market and the ecosystem is essential.

- Interact with internal and external subject matter experts on research topics.

- Look at diverse data sets, analyze and make sense of market trends and envisage potential areas of research

- Candidate should be able to confidently lead vendor discussions in the IT market. The individual is expected to build strong value-based professional relationships with senior leaders of the industry (both vendors and end users) and to provide them with market understanding as well as advice around their strategies

- Participate in and contribute to local or regional consulting projects.

- Report writing via consolidation of primary research conducted via interviews.

- Work on ad-hoc activities (GMS activities, etc.) related to software and services market.

Key Requirements:

- Need to have related experience in IT markets

- Strong command on English language.

- Demonstrate strong writing skills as required for intelligence and thought leadership reports, and ability to analyze situations and build their own narrative.

- Excel, word and power point skills.

- Ability to identify leads and opportunities and help develop scope for projects.

- Strong desire to learn new things and open to ideas and feedback

- Takes initiative to understand and increase its awareness of a respective market.

- Good communication skill, responsible for client communication (located globally)

- Strong Analytical skill & excellent interpersonal & relationship building skills

- Proficiency at grasping new concepts quickly and utilizing it in a productive manner

- Proactive and focused to ensure high level performance delivery

- Preferably an MBA graduate with around 5-7 years of experience in market research or consulting