Member/Senior Competitive Intel Specialist, Remote

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas.

About the role

Sandia National Laboratories is seeking a Business & Competitive Intelligence Professional to support licensing, technology transfer, partnership development, and strategic business decisions across Sandia's mission and research portfolio. This role will provide actionable intelligence and analysis to help evaluate current and prospective licensees, partners, sponsors, and market opportunities; inform contracting and partnership decisions; and support the deployment of Sandia intellectual property and capabilities into external applications.

The selected applicant can be a remote worker located in any U.S. State or District of Columbia. Regular or periodic travel to your assigned work location may be required.

Responsibilities

• Develop analyses and present research results on markets, customers, sponsors, licensees, partners, competitors, technology sectors, and comparative trends.
• Support Sandia's licensing and partnership activities by identifying, researching, and evaluating external organizations that may be candidates for licensing, collaboration, commercialization, or strategic engagement.
• Prepare business, market, and partner analyses to support contracting-office decisions, partnership evaluations, and technology transfer activities.
• Provide research and analytical products that help inform agreement strategy, opportunity prioritization, partner suitability, commercialization potential, and risk mitigation considerations.
• Work with leadership and stakeholders to identify gaps, define potential opportunities, and anticipate changes in markets, technology sectors, sponsor priorities, and partnership landscapes.
• Develop and provide accurate and timely intelligence on R&D environments, including key trends and strategic drivers; future directions; funding profiles; competitor and peer-laboratory activities; technology adoption trends; and external organizations' R&D, investment, and partnering strategies.
• Support external opportunity identification and evaluation for technologies, capabilities, and intellectual property assets with potential for licensing, commercialization, or partnership development.
• Conduct comparative analyses, market research, and business intelligence assessments to support business development, technology transfer, and partner engagement.
• Produce concise written reports, briefings, dashboards, and visualizations that communicate analytical findings to internal audiences.
• Maintain awareness of relevant industry sectors, emerging technologies, investment activity, federal R&D priorities, and commercialization pathways relevant to Sandia's mission space.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Research, Economics, National Security, Public Policy, Engineering, Science, or a relevant discipline plus two or more years of relevant experience; or Master's degree in Business or a relevant discipline; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the demonstrated ability to work with organizational leadership, and deliver recommendations that lead to action.
• Experience applying business intelligence, competitive intelligence, market research, due diligence, or strategic analysis methods to support decision-making.
• Experience with qualitative (e.g. interviewing) and quantitative (e.g. statistical packages) research methods.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional stakeholders, including technical teams, business development professionals, licensing staff, contracting personnel, legal or compliance partners, and leadership.
• Department of Energy (DOE) Q security clearance to start, or equivalent active security clearance with another U.S. government agency (e.g., DOD).

Qualifications We Desire

• Master's degree in Business, Economics, International Affairs, National Security, Global Security, Public Policy, Engineering, Science, or a related discipline.
• Relevant certifications, e.g. Strategic & Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) Certification.
• Experience supporting technology transfer, intellectual property licensing, commercialization, partnership development, contracting, federal laboratory partnerships, or R&D business development.
• Experience conducting diligence on companies, universities, nonprofits, government entities, investors, or other external organizations.
• Experience with market research for deployment, licensing, or commercialization of intellectual property assets.
• Familiarity with federal R&D environments, national laboratories, technology transfer mechanisms, public-private partnerships, or mission-oriented research organizations.
• Policy, budget, sponsor, or federal funding analysis experience.
• Ability to communicate technical, market, and business findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple analytical requests, prioritize competing deadlines, and produce timely, decision-ready work products.

Benefits

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide.
• Extraordinary co-workers.
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world.
• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities.
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home).
• Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance.

*Benefits vary by job classification.

Pay

Salary range is estimated at $74,700 - $144,400. Actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

About Our Team

The Business and Competitive Intelligence (BCI) and Data Analysis, Visualization and Communication (DAV-C) teams support the development of future business, programs, and science and technology investments by evaluating opportunities related to current and future partners and sponsors, assessing markets and research environments, anticipating changes, providing reliable and actionable analyses, and making strategic inputs to assist leadership. The department also provides data analysis and visualization to support leadership decision making, streamline business processes, enhance technology usability, and facilitate internal and external collaborations.

Position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q security clearance to start, or equivalent active security clearance with another U.S. government agency (e.g., DOD). Applicants for employment need to be able to maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.