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 five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, 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.

Market and Competition Analyst – Training and Simulation 

Location: Crawley

Thales UK have an exciting vacancy for a Market Analyst to support our sector strategic marketing directors by providing analysis, specific reports & deliverables that inform and contribute to their market sector activities, focussed on the military training and simulation market

The UK analyst team offers great opportunities for career progression, with clear competencies and development programmes to build your experience and toolset of analysis techniques.  The team is spread geographically across the UK, but we work both individually and collaboratively in the services we provide to the business and you will have the opportunity to work with other colleagues internationally in support of export activity as well.  There is great variety in the work we do and the team is recognised in the Group as being at the leading edge of best practice in a number of areas, which is enabled by our operating model of mutual support and challenge.

This role will be responsible for providing analysis and insight of markets and competitors relating to the business winning activity and offer development.  The role is transversal in nature, reflecting the market footprint and requires a broad understanding across the domains of air, land and maritime as well as digital offers.

The business winning component of the role is significant and entails the provision of black hat, value prop, partnering / make-team-buy and price to win analyses relating to major prospects.  There is a significant upcoming pipeline of opportunities for this role to service, the position will be based at the Thales Crawley site. While a significant proportion of the role may be carried out from home, some attendance on site will be needed.

What the role has to offer:

• Great variety of work – every day is different

• Highly supportive team with the opportunity to learn from others

• Opportunities for career progression

• Flexibility to work from home 1-2 days per week

• 37 Hours/Week

Key Responsibilities:

• Support to business winning activity, to include daily tracking of relevant contract notices and distribution to Sales team in a timely fashion

• 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 Product Line Managers 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

Skills & Experience:

• 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

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.

Company Story

The future is full of excitement and change; each new change and technology will create situations no one has had to deal with before or even anticipated and it will happen at an even faster pace than today.

Our 3 priorities throughout the crisis remain constant:

• To continue to protect all our employees’ health and financial wellbeing.
• To safeguard the business and continue to deliver for our customers as best we can.
• And, to ensure that Thales is best placed to recover quickly.

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

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.

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