Senior Research Analyst, Semiconductors

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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.

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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Omdia, part of Inform TechTarget, advises some of the world’s largest companies, technology vendors, and other clients on market strategies, trends, and best practice from across the TMT (telecoms, media, and technology) industry. We deliver these services around the fastest moving technologies through either our subscription or consulting divisions.

Omdia’s Research and Advisory (R&A) team provides a range of syndicated research services which includes market tracking and analysis, market trend forecasting, though leadership white papers, case studies, and market share analysis. We also provide targeted custom marketing services which help our clients position themselves for growth, through the design and delivery of messaging strategies, public speaking, and the provision of audience extension and message amplification capabilities from across the Informa TechTarget brands.

The role

As a member of Omdia’s semiconductor research team within R&A, the research analyst is responsible for developing and aggregating data and analysis that is used in reports read by the leadership of many of the leading companies in the world.

The analyst will assume responsibility for one of our research services, consisting of a database and the associated market analysis. Research is issued at regular intervals for subscribers to the appropriate service. The proposed area of concentration is digital processors (MPUs, GPUs) and their key applications, although this may change based on future company requirements.

Over time, the analyst will develop a broad knowledge of the assigned semiconductor market, including key segments, key technology trends, and a broad socio-economic understanding of how the changing world landscape may impact the market. The analyst will become Omdia’s market expert in this area, interacting with customers and sharing market knowledge both inside and outside the company. 

Key responsibilities

• Building base data – Create databases for relevant semiconductor products through background research, relationships with leading market players, and estimations when company data is not available.  The analyst will maintain databases and log assumptions in a clear manner.
• Develop Forecast – Use your industry knowledge and databases to generate market forecasts.  Be able to present and explain your forecasts and background reasoning to clients and other team members when needed.
• Scoping – Keep up to date on changes in the industry and technology to refine your databases as necessary. Work with manager and other teams to produce analysis on several different areas of the assigned semiconductor market and ensure a consistent research methodology
• Specialist support – Provide one to one expertise for customers on both technology and market trends
• Writing – Provide qualitative analysis supporting data and forecasts. Build reports that discuss and explain the impact of technology and key market trends
• Thought leadership – Produce written insights and supporting press material to highlight and promote research output in area of responsibility. Travel to relevant trade events to develop supplier relationships and present key findings from the market research.
• Sales support – Work with the sales team to develop leads, maintain relationships with existing leads, and support renewals. Look for opportunities to evolve the research offering as your expertise increases
• Profile building – Represent the Omdia brand at functions and events, growing both your own, and Omdia’s, reputation within the industry by interacting with the senior leadership of some of the largest companies and fastest growing start-ups.
• Inquiries and consulting support – Support client inquiries as needed, providing deeper insights into forecasts, reports, and other Omdia research. Work with management and the Omdia consulting team to define proposals, perform primary/secondary research to build proposed deliverables, and supply the deliverable in the customer specified format.

• Curiosity to understand the assigned semiconductor market, stay up to date on changes in technology and the forces that drive the market 
• Comfortable reaching out to industry sources and developing relationships
• Leads collaborative effort towards a common goal; knows who and where to seek support
• Ability to think outside the box in approaching problems to find innovative solutions
• Expertise in MS Excel for data building, data manipulation, data organization, and pivot table creation
• Track record of prioritizing time for competing tasks
• Ability to write clear, structured, concise, and insightful reports
• Comfortable interacting with clients to conduct interviews, present research, and develop commercial relationships
• Multitasking – ability to prioritize and delegate competing tasks effectively
• Use assumptions and logical thinking to create estimates, scenarios, and forecasts
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a STEM subject preferred
• 3 – 5 years’ experience in the semiconductor or engineering-related industry preferred

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, color, 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
• 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, 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

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