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Principal Market Analyst

Morson EdgeSussex🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 12 Aug 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This Principal Market Analyst role offers a fantastic opportunity to drive critical business winning strategies through insightful market and competitor analysis, with hybrid flexibility and a chance to significantly impact a leading company's growth. You'll thrive here if you excel at data-driven research and strategic thinking, making this a rewarding position for ambitious professionals.

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Schedule
Temporary/Casual
Level
Leader

Job Description

Principal Marketing Analyst, Crawley; 9-month contract; Inside IR35

We currently have a requirement for a Principal Marketing Analyst based in Crawley working for a Thales UK Limited This role will be responsible for providing analysis and insight of markets and competitors relating to the Integrated Airspace Protection (IAS) business winning activity and offer development.
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
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:
o Market: Construction of forecast models 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.
o 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 company internal or any classified or company sensitive material.
Responsibilities may also include providing support to the main system administrator, covering:
o Providing usage reports, as required
o 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 company product positioning

Skills and Experience required

Essential
Research - able to identify the best way to research a new problem. Understands all the tools available to them, Willing to approach individuals to gather primary intelligence

Forecasting - Able to use appropriate advanced mathematical modelling techniques and build assumptions where little data exists to generate long-term market projections and derive clear recommendations in which the business has confidence, despite market uncertainty

Trends, Patterns and Models - Able to identify trends and patterns within data they have modelled. Seeks to identify what is driving any trends and is able to explain the impact

Experience Experience of undertaking market and competitor analysis in the UK defence market
Presentation Ability to synthesise outputs from analysis to insights and implications to the business and present findings in a clear and compelling way.

Desirable
Experience of Market Analysis in the Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance and/or Electronic Warfare domain
Strategic Business Planning Experience of undertaking Strategic Business Planning

Morson is acting as an employment business in relation to this vacancy.

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