Market Intelligence Manager

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end research process: target identification, company screening, ownership verification, sourcing contact information and market intelligence
• Collaborate with the investment and business development teams to understand acquisition criteria, industries, geographies, owner-structures, and size
• Build and manage a team of analysts; establish research methodologies, QA frameworks and reporting cadence
• Create benchmarks and KPIs for the research function to effectively and accurately track progress and report performance
• Build and maintain a proprietary pipeline of target companies. Collect and validate ownership/contact info and enrich profiles with contextual notes (market signals, sale-trigger indicators, competitive positioning)
• Maintain vendor/third-party partnerships (e.g., databases, licensing) and research tools as required
• Generate actionable deliverables: prioritized target lists, decision-maker maps, owner profiles and summaries to stakeholders

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, market research, or related field
• 3+ years of experience in market intelligence, competitive research, business development research, corporate development sourcing, or investment research
• Demonstrated ability to build target pipelines, gather owner information, perform primary/secondary research and deliver actionable insights
• Strong business acumen: ability to understand a company’s business model, metrics, owner incentives, and market dynamics
• Excellent analytical, data-synthesis and presentation skills. Ability to distill complex data into clear insights for stakeholders
• Demonstrated leadership and project management expertise. Experience managing a small team or leading cross-functional collaboration preferred
• Strong proficiency with research databases, CRM/target-tracking tools, MS Excel, LinkedIn / contact-research tool