Senior Market Analyst

Location: Crawley, United Kingdom

Thales people architect solutions that enable two-thirds of planes to take off and land safely. We create in-flight entertainment systems that engross 50 million fliers every year and we develop the avionics that control the world’s largest commercial aircrafts. Our simulators train the next generation of pilots for fighter jets, transporters and search and rescue helicopters. And, together, each and every member of our aerospace team makes a difference.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Senior Market Analyst (LR08)

Location: Crawley  

As a Market Analyst at Thales, you will play a vital role in supporting business needs through comprehensive market analysis and competitive insights. You have an understandin across air, land, maritime, and digital sectors, with a strong focus on business development activities. You will be conducting analyses for value propositions, partnership evaluations, and pricing strategies, particularly for major prospects.

This role comes with exciting opportunities to engage with a promising pipeline, including various training programs and emerging markets. The analyst team fosters career growth through defined competencies and development programs, while promoting collaboration both within the UK and internationally. The team is recognized for its commitment to best practices in analysis and a supportive environment that encourages professional development.

Key responsibilities:

• Support to business winning activity, to include daily tracking of relevant contract notices and distribution to Sales team in a timely manner
• Analysis of data to provide synthesis of key market characteristics & competitor profiling:
• Market:  Construction of basic forecast models (e.g. aircraft platforms) to provide insight on market size, profile, geography and timescales.  Generating market analysis from these forecast models to provide input to PLMs in support of business case decision reviews.
• Competitor: capabilities, product offerings, pricing datapoint research; potential partner organisation identification.
• Supporting the UK Strategy & Marketing Plaza business intelligence system on a daily basis by screening & uploading news articles, reports & analyses etc ensuring that they do not contain any information above 'Thales Group Internal' or any classified or company sensitive material.
• Responsibilities may also include providing support to the main system administrator, covering:
• Providing usage reports, as required
• Co-ordinating training for users
• Supporting the strategic business planning process and MoD key account managers by providing supporting analysis to inform market trends & drivers, market sizing and competitive intensity
• Stays appraised of key competitor marketing messages and proactively shares these with Comms. and the Strategy & Marketing Sector leads to improve Thales' product positioning

About You:

• Knowledge of all Defence domains and digital markets
• Ability to capture customer needs from primary & secondary sources and to synthesise this to support decision making on Thales' product positioning
• Driven to build personal network within the business to facilitate sharing and codification of market intelligence
• Experience in working to deadlines, managing multiple tasks at once
• Able to build Excel data sets for subsequent manipulation and has a basic grasp of formulas, enabling interpretation of business case or forecast models
• Understanding of company financial data, financial ratios and general business case principles
• Able to locate and summarise company financial data
• Proficient in desk research-based techniques

Due to the nature of the work that we do at Thales, many of our roles are subject to security restrictions. This role requires you to be a UK National and achieve Security Clearance (SC) without any caveats. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance prior to commencing employment. If approved by the MOD, a dual national from a Non-ITAR country may be considered. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance. To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks

What We Can Offer

We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry.

We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Other Benefits:

• Thales offers a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes;
• Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00pm
• Hybrid working
• Pension Scheme
• 28 days annual leave (Plus Bank Holidays) 
• Life Cover
• Progression and Development Opportunities
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app

Flexibility

Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

If you are interested in this role, we would encourage you to have informal chat with the assigned recruiter.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

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In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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