Senior Principal Analyst

Do you want to develop your career and make an impact in the fast-growth, fast-moving B2B technology space?

At Informa TechTarget, you’ll collaborate and grow alongside some of the industry’s most respected experts. You’ll work with leading brands and be exposed to world-shaping innovations. You’ll apply your energy and intellect to helping clients be faster to market and faster to revenue.

We’re a vibrant community of world-class practitioners – over 2000 colleagues strong – with offices in 19 locations around the world. We’re traded on Nasdaq and also part of Informa PLC, a global leader in business-to-business events, digital services, and academic research in the FTSE 100 who are #3 in Glassdoor's Best Places to Work 2025 UK list. 

About Informa TechTarget

Informa TechTarget (Nasdaq: TTGT) informs, influences and connects the world’s technology buyers and sellers, to accelerate growth from R&D to ROI.

With an unparalleled reach of over 220 highly targeted technology-specific websites and more than 50 million permissioned first-party audience members, Informa TechTarget has a unique understanding of and insight into technology markets.

Underpinned by those audiences and their data, we offer expert-led, data-driven, and digitally enabled services that deliver significant impact and measurable outcomes to our clients. We provide our customers with:

• Trusted information that shapes the industry and informs investment
• Intelligence and advice that guides and influences strategy
• Advertising that grows reputation and establishes thought leadership
• Custom content that engages and prompts action
• Intent and demand generation that more precisely targets and converts

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Job Description

Informa is seeking a Principal Analyst to join its Cloud and Data Center Research Practice. The successful candidate will focus on the global market for cloud services and data center information technology (computing, networking and storage). The candidate needs to be well versed in the technology ecosystem and vendor landscape globally and in China. A deep understanding of the China ecosystem is preferrable. Deliverables include market trackers and reports, custom research projects, survey research, white papers, webinars, and industry speaking engagements. The analyst will work with a team of colleagues located across multiple locations in Europe, Asia and North America.

We’re looking for an analyst with significant industry experience who has produced third-party research assets. Practical engineering experience is considered a big plus. A perspective on data center development and design strategies is another plus. Pre-existing knowledge of the technology industry is essential.

The candidate will need to be able quickly develop strong relationships with technology manufacturers and data center operators. The analyst will have the opportunity to travel internationally and to build a brand for themselves on the technology conference circuit and in the media. A pre-existing industry network across IT OEMs and semiconductor companies is advantageous.

Description:

• Develop from-scratch high-quality and accurate market size, share, and forecast reports, providing short-term and long-term market analysis, fundamental market drivers, top players and market segment analysis, and product development trends
• Produce thought leading research notes on hot topics, including technology shifts, regional and vertical activity, key product announcements, M&As, and more
• Develop and analyse survey data, providing in-depth quantitative and qualitative analysis on trends, drivers, barriers, preferences, and strategies
• Using primary and secondary research to build credible base data and market projections; using credible sources to support forecasts; logging all assumptions and working in a clear way; creating the story around market development /opportunities/risks; develop forecast scenarios
• Forge and maintain relationships with all players in the ecosystem, including software vendors, cloud service providers, equipment manufacturers, end-users, and investment analysts
• Speak at conferences and present key data findings to customers
• Forge and maintain relationships with the trade and business press
• Participate in social media to engage with customers and partners
• Regularly drive business development with clients and prospects and support account managers to grow data center physical infrastructure research revenue

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical or mechanical engineering preferred; additional training or graduate degree is a plus.
• Experience as an industry analyst, product management, or corporate strategy experience related to colocation and cloud service providers.
• Experience in segmenting, sizing, and forecasting technology markets a plus
• Relationships with equipment makers, cloud service providers, and other ecosystem players a plus
• Affinity for working on a dynamic and global team

Required Skills:

• Strong analytic, logic, and quantitative skills required.
• Must be able to produce analysis from a blank sheet, including sourcing their data through primary and secondary research.
• Advanced ability to find and piece together data from multiple sources and to connect the dots; thinks big picture about solution not just the product
• Use assumptions and logical thinking to create estimates, scenarios and forecasts
• Polished and engaging written and oral communication skills, including public speaking
• Multitasking – ability to prioritize and delegate competing tasks effectively
• Strong Microsoft Excel expertise

TechTarget, Inc., doing business as Informa TechTarget, including its subsidiaries is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. We strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, colour, sex (including pregnancy), age, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment. Informa TechTarget complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act, and all applicable federal, state or local law.

Our benefits include:

• Freedom & flexibility: colleagues rate us highly for the flexibility and trust they receive and most of us balance time in the office with time working remotely
• Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active diversity and inclusion networks
• Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer, with charity match funding available too
• Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When it’s time for the next step, we encourage and support internal job moves
• Time out: annual leave, birthday leave and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
• A flexible range of personal benefits to choose from, plus company funded private medical cover
• A ShareMatch scheme that allows you to become an Informa shareholder with free matching shares
• Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, a healthy living subsidy, access to health apps and more
• Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programmes
• As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world

We’re not solely focused on a checklist of skills. We champion energy and ambition and look for colleagues who will roll their sleeves up, join in and help make things happen. If it sounds like a match and you have most – although not all – of the skills and experience listed, we welcome your application.

At Informa, you'll find inclusive experiences and environments where all perspectives and backgrounds are welcomed. As part of this approach and our diversity and inclusion commitments, we are also formally an Equal Opportunities Employer. This means we base decisions on relevant qualifications and merit and do not discriminate on the basis of key characteristics and statuses, including all of those protected by law. Ask us or see our website for full information.

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