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.

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

Our organization is committed to sustainability, diversity, wellbeing, and ethical working practices. Visit informatechtarget.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

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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.

This role will be based at Menara Skymind. 

We are looking for a Senior Research Analyst to join our Manufacturing Technology team in Penang. 

• Scoping : use customer-centric feedback to direct minor scope changes, ensuring research remains fresh and relevant while understanding customer needs and questions to enhance research cycles and add value
• Writing and Thought leadership – providing qualitative analysis to support and justify data, focusing on change and development, and developing concise outputs using text plans and structured outlines while discussing the impact of technology and key market trends in written deliverables or market briefing sessions. 
• Sales support –  Partner with the sales team to generate new leads, progress existing leads, and support renewals, using scoping insights to evolve the research offering and align with client needs. 
• Event support – Collaborate with the events team to showcase research and strengthen Omdia’s position in the industry, gathering intelligence at events to develop new research propositions.
• Primary research – Conducting interviews with key industry contacts across various company types, attending trade shows, participating in face-to-face visits to build relationships and gather insights, and maintaining a detailed log of interactions and feedback.
• Secondary research –  Utilizing sources such as trade journals, in-house research, trade associations, public reports, financial releases, and company press releases to support primary research.
• Building base data –Build credible base data with sufficient market player coverage, creating estimates, ensuring consistency with related data and markets, and logging all assumptions clearly.
• Forecasting – Generating market projections using primary and secondary research supported by credible sources, logging assumptions, and creating narratives around market development, opportunities, and risks.

• Experience in an analyst position or related industrial automation position
• Ability to use the phone for outreach and developing relationships (internal and external)
• Excel – solid grasp of Excel for data building, data manipulation, and pivot table creation
• Experience working collaboratively towards a common goal
• Ability to think outside the box in approaching problems to find innovative solutions
• Prioritising time for competing tasks
• Writing detailed reports in a structured and concise way to capture key research highlights
• Highly developed primary research interview and data gathering skills
• Multitasking – ability to prioritise competing tasks effectively
• Collaborative approach to exploit internal resources
• Ability to piece together data from multiple sources and to connect the dots
• Use assumptions and logical thinking to create estimates and forecast

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, volunteer days
• 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