Market Intelligence Analyst

Lenovo • Morrisville, NC

12h

About The Position

Lenovo is hiring a Market Intelligence Analyst within its strategy organization. The market and competitive intelligence team produces assets that support higher-quality decision making across the organization. The analyst will conduct research, benchmarking, and analysis to support transformation and continuous improvement across multiple parts of Lenovo, using third-party sources and original research to develop perspectives on business questions and hypotheses. The analyst will present findings to executive and non-executive stakeholders and integrate activities into business management systems where appropriate.

The role involves framing ambiguous business challenges as decision questions, hypotheses, analytical plans, and decision criteria; building internal and external fact bases; assessing markets, industries, competitors, customer priorities, and emerging technologies; and translating findings into business recommendations. The analyst will evaluate processes, operating models, capabilities, and data; develop business cases, scenarios, financial models, KPIs, and quantified options; and communicate complex analysis through executive storylines, dashboards, decision papers, and recommendations.

The analyst will also facilitate stakeholder interviews and workshops, translate approved recommendations into execution priorities and governance inputs, track performance and benefits, identify risks and variances, and support post-implementation reviews and handoffs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, engineering, information systems, or operations, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 3 years of experience in business analysis, strategy, consulting, finance, operations, transformation, analytics, or process improvement.
• Experience with process mapping, requirements analysis, external benchmarking, financial modelling, scenario analysis, or benefits realization.
• Ability to structure complex problems, analyze quantitative and qualitative evidence, and develop clear recommendations.
• Demonstrated projects involving research, analytics, and storytelling.
• Strong facilitation skills for working across diverse stakeholders and problem types.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced capability in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience using Power BI, Tableau, SQL, or comparable analytics and visualization tools.
• Familiarity with Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, change management, or continuous-improvement methods.
• Relevant certification such as CBAP or Lean Six Sigma.
• Practical digital and AI literacy, including responsible use of AI for research, analysis, modelling, synthesis, and insight generation while validating outputs.
• Curiosity about the IT industry and the ability to apply industry learnings to projects.
• High learning agility and comfort working on business problems with uncertain outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Structure ambiguous business challenges into decision questions, hypotheses, analytical workplans, and decision criteria.
• Build internal and external fact bases using business data, stakeholder input, market intelligence, competitor benchmarks, and best-in-class practices.
• Identify emerging technologies, disruptive trends, investment patterns, and potential market inflection points.
• Assess customer investment priorities, infrastructure requirements, and purchasing behavior, and translate customer signals into actionable recommendations.
• Produce competitive assessments and complete competitor or industry benchmarks.
• Map current-state processes, operating models, capabilities, and pain points to define future-state requirements and design principles.
• Analyze operational, financial, customer, workforce, process, market, and portfolio data to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Evaluate solution options for strategic fit, user needs, feasibility, value, and implementation risk, and validate solution integrity during delivery.
• Develop business cases, scenarios, sensitivities, value bridges, KPIs, baselines, and quantified options to support prioritization and investment decisions.
• Translate complex analysis into executive storylines, dashboards, decision papers, options, recommendations, and clear internal requests.
• Facilitate interviews, workshops, and working sessions to test hypotheses, align stakeholders, clarify requirements, and build ownership.
• Translate approved recommendations into priorities, owners, milestones, governance inputs, and analytical requirements for execution teams.
• Track KPIs, benefits, risks, adoption, and performance; identify variance, value leakage, or emerging issues and recommend corrective action.
• Support post-implementation reviews, business-as-usual handoff, and the capture of reusable methods, models, insights, and lessons learned.
• Conduct research, form market and segment opportunity estimates, perform process analysis, gather business requirements, and develop financial models for transformation initiatives.
• Support benefits realization and ensure value is captured from transformation efforts.
• Prepare executive-level communications and recommendations and facilitate alignment across functions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level