Market Intelligence Analyst
Lenovo
- General Information
- Req # WD00107218
- Career Area: Strategy and Operations
- Country/Region: United States of America
- State: North Carolina
- City: Morrisville
- Date: Thursday, October 15, 2026
- Working Time: Full-time
- Additional Locations:
- * United States of America - North Carolina - Morrisville
- Why Work at Lenovo
- We are Lenovo. We do what we say. We own what we do. We WOW our customers.
Lenovo is a US$83 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #153 in the Fortune Global 500, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (server, storage, edge, high performance computing and software defined infrastructure), software, solutions, and services. Lenovo’s continued investment in world-changing innovation is building a more equitable, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange under Lenovo Group Limited (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY).
- This transformation together with Lenovo’s world-changing innovation is building a more inclusive, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. To find out more visit www.lenovo.com, and read about the latest news via our StoryHub.
- Description and Requirements
In this role, the analyst will work with other intelligence professionals and stakeholders to perform the following activities :
- Forming market and segment opportunity estimates
- Completing competitor or industry benchmarks
- Conducting process analysis and gathering business requirements
- Developing business cases and financial models to support transformation initiatives
- Facilitating stakeholder discussions and alignment across functions
- Preparing executive-level communications and recommendations
- Defining and tracking KPIs to measure progress and outcomes
- Supporting benefits realization and ensuring value is captured from transformation efforts.
The individual will use third-party sources as well as their own research to develop perspective supporting a specific business question or hypothesis. The analyst will present findings to executive and non-executive stakeholders and integrate activities into business management systems where appropriate.
Responsibilities
Problem framing & opportunity discovery
- Structure ambiguous business challenges into clear decision questions, hypotheses, analytical workplans, and decision criteria.
- Build internal and external fact bases using business data, stakeholder input, market intelligence, competitor benchmarks, and best-in-class practices.
Market, Industry & Competitive Intelligence to facilitate project scoping
- Identify emerging technologies, disruptive trends, investment patterns, and potential market inflection points.
- Assess customer investment priorities, infrastructure requirements, and purchasing behavior.
- Translate customer signals into actionable business recommendations.
- Help produce competitive assessments.
Analysis and decision support
- Map current-state processes, operating models, capabilities, and pain points to define evidence-based future-state requirements and design principles.
- Analyze operational, financial, customer, workforce, process, market, and portfolio data to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities.
- Evaluate solution options against strategic fit, user needs, feasibility, value, and implementation risk, and validate solution integrity during delivery.
- Develop business cases, scenarios, sensitivities, value bridges, KPIs, baselines, and quantified options to support prioritization and investment decisions.
- Translate complex analysis into concise executive storylines, dashboards, decision papers, options, recommendations, and clear requests internally.
Stakeholder engagement
- Translate approved recommendations into priorities, owners, milestones, governance inputs, and analytical requirements for execution teams.
- Facilitate interviews, workshops, and working sessions to test hypotheses, align stakeholders, clarify requirements, and build ownership.
- Track KPIs, benefits, risks, adoption, and performance; identify variance, value leakage, or emerging issues and recommend corrective action.
- Support post-implementation reviews, business-as-usual handoff, and capture of reusable methods, models, insights, and lessons learned.
Basic Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, engineering, information systems, operations, or equivalent professional experience
- 3 + years of experience in business analysis, strategy, consulting, finance, operations, transformation, analytics, or process improvement
- Experience with process mapping, requirements analysis, external benchmarking, financial modelling, scenario analysis, or benefits realization
- Demonstrated ability to structure complex problems, analyze quantitative and qualitative evidence, and develop clear recommendations.
- Demonstrated projects involving research, analytics, and storytelling.
- Strong facilitation skills to work across a diverse set of stakeholders and problem types.
Preferred Requirements
- Advanced capability in Excel and PowerPoint, with experience using Power BI, Tableau, SQL, or comparable analytics and visualization tools.
- Familiarity with Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, change management, or continuous-improvement methods; relevant certification such as CBAP or Lean Six Sigma is beneficial.
- Practical digital and AI literacy, including responsible use of AI to accelerate research, analysis, modelling, synthesis, and insight generation while validating outputs.
The ideal candidate is motivated by hypothesis-led problem solving, including performing research, developing models, creating and evaluating scenarios, authoring perspectives and presenting recommendations. Furt