Marketing / Report Analyst

Robert Half Technology has been retained by an industry-leading technology driven firm to recruit a new team member focusing on analyzing and reporting industry competitive intelligence. This position will closely coordinate with operational, divisional or business groups to collect, store, query and report national, state and local competitive data and studies. This position will collect, query and report on intelligence in as automated a fashion as possible. This will require digging into databases, automating reports, running complex SQL or other queries on competitive analysis and intelligence that impacts the scope of our business. Person would be responsible for gathering competitive intelligence and making summary reports on a daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly basis while working to determine “best-in-class processes and reporting on process effectiveness on a weekly and monthly basis. Candidate will work with project managers to tie reporting into major project deliverables/tasks and tracking report usage and making improvements to meet internal client needs. Leverage competitive knowledge database and web intranet solution such as Microsoft SharePoint or Kana Knowledge Management, ICOMS and other database sources of information including Oracle RDBMS, Web and market studies and reports, etc.

Qualifications :
• An associate degree required, a Bachelor’s degree strongly preferred, or equivalent work experience • Two to three years experience in a competitive research, marketing, marketing research position required • Experience with personal computers, word processing, and spreadsheet programs are required including Microsoft Office • Some experience with Microsoft Project, Microsoft Access DB or SQL databases and web authoring or web management such as Microsoft SharePoint desirable • Very good analytical and good interpersonal skills are essential to this position • Must be able to relate to all levels of management and employees with ease and enthusiasm, particularly to other team members, other analysts and field operational supervisors / managers • May need to travel to local areas to survey and track competitive work in the field such as advertising on bill boards, construction of networks, marketing programs by competitors in the field, etc. • Familiarity with GPS for geo-coding of information desirable • Will be expected to survey and analyze competitor’s and government agency Web sites to provide a holistic competitive landscape review • Excellent oral/written communications skills are necessary • Must practice good judgment, discretion, and confidentiality and use resources to meet changing needs and goals • Individual must be highly analytical with attention to detail

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