Market Insights Analyst
Job Title
Market Insights Analyst
Job Description
We're looking for Market Insights Analyst to join our Strategy and Market Insights team in Amsterdam.
Working for Signify means being creative and adaptive. Our culture of continuous learning and commitment to diversity and inclusion creates an environment that allows you to build your skills and career. Together, we’re transforming our industry.
As the world leader in lighting, we’re constantly ahead of the curve. Through our leadership in connected lighting and the Internet of Things, we’re breaking new grounds in data analytics, AI, and smart homes, offices, cities and more!
Signify is one of the few companies in the world to achieve carbon neutrality and our next sustainability goals are even bolder: doubling our positive impact on the environment and society by 2025.
Working as a Market Insights Analyst at Signify is dynamic. You will be part of the Strategy & Market Insights team within the broader Strategy & Sustainability function. The team consists of a broad range of backgrounds, including alumni from top-tier consulting firms, former equity analysts and research experts. We’re greater together through peer learning in our globally diverse team, with different backgrounds and nationalities.
Would you like to be part of an industry which is undergoing fundamental change driven by new technologies and digital transformation? Are you a highly talented analyst who can support our Leadership Team to make the right decisions? Would you like to work directly with the CEO and the executive team of the leader in lighting?
This is a unique opportunity to influence strategy, innovation and growth in a global company. We are looking for you if you can bring together the right balance of analytical insights, problem solving rigor, people skills, and pragmatism to turn your thinking into decisions and actions.
We’re on the lookout for forward-thinking innovators with a passion for sustainability. If you match this description, get in touch!
What you’ll do
Analyze lighting market developments using internal and external sources and advanced analytical tools
Translate your market analyses into market size forecasts using proprietary market size and forecasting models
Synthesize your findings and generate insightful analyses to drive senior leader decision making
Prepare presentations and reports for senior leadership, including our Leadership Team and Board of Management
Develop deep expertise in your segment’s product offerings and market dynamics to support your analyses
Develop and maintain relationships with Signify markets and business groups to capture relevant market insights
Stay abreast of relevant internal and external knowledge, and disseminate among stakeholders; introduce and implement new ideas for knowledge, tools, operations
You will work both independently as well as with a team on specific strategic projects – this can include managing a full project work stream independently.
Your qualifications
A master’s degree in business, science or engineering with an excellent academic track record
A minimum of 5 years’ experience in an analytical role (e.g., customer intelligence, equity research, investment banking, consultancy or other relevant employment)
Demonstrable experience in creating (model-based) forecasts
Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills; capable of driving insight to action
Excellent analytics and quantitative skills; Experience with one or more advanced analytical tools such as Excel, SAS, SPSS, R, or Python
Fluency in written and spoken English; ability to speak another language (e.g., Dutch, German, Hindi, Mandarin Chinese) is helpful
A willingness to travel (10-25%)
What you’ll get in return…
We’re offering multiple opportunities for career development, like mentoring, coaching and stretch assignments, with strong international exposure for dynamic profiles. Learning is fundamental to our culture. Through continuous learning, we are transforming the industry. You have the chance to learn every day, acquire new skills and perspectives through customized online programs, and on-the-job experiences.
See through the eyes of our employees!
Who we are
Signify is the world leader in lighting. We provide professional customers and consumers with quality, energy-efficient LED lighting. And our lights, when connected, bring data to devices, apps and people – redefining what light can do and how you use it. Today, our innovations, such as LiFi – internet connectivity through light – and UV-C, solar and horticultural lighting, contribute to a safer, smarter, more sustainable world.
We’re operating in 74 countries with 37,000 people worldwide.
