COMPANY
Janes enables militaries, governments, and defence companies to make critical decisions. Our expert-driven tradecraft, developed over 120 years, combined with human-machine teaming, delivers assured open-source intelligence across military capabilities and order of battle, equipment, events, countries, companies and markets.
Linking millions of assured data points, Janes data model creates a framework of interconnected open-source defence intelligence. This allows our customers to integrate all relevant data and connections into a single intelligence environment to deliver a more complete and accurate answer. Using Janes, our customers can use their scarce resource more effectively, to get to better decisions with higher confidence, more quickly.
JOB PURPOSE
Janes is recruiting a Research Analyst for Naval Platforms for the Bangalore office in India. The Senior Research Analyst will be involved in the domain of Aerospace & Defence and will be responsible for maintaining and updating our procurement and market forecast solutions.
HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE AT JANES
• Produce material for Janes in an analytically rigorous fashion, taking into account industry insight, as well as related geopolitical, military, and economic factors.
• Conduct market research (qualitative and quantitative), statistical analysis, and business intelligence to support our market forecast and defence procurement products.
• Monitor news insights and press releases for further opportunities in defence procurement and the impact of policies in future market outlook.
• Establish linkages and relationships between naval platform programmes in terms of configuration, pricing, and operational requirements.
• Identify and analyse contracts in the aerospace and defence domain and develop new market segments and functions.
• Identify gaps in existing databases and conduct rigorous monthly audits with respect to various parameters across the naval platform databases.
• Prepare monthly reports documenting specific database changes and maintain worklogs.
• Support a range of consulting, editorial and other analysis projects with true insights and demonstrate value to the naval platforms’ portfolio.
THE IDEAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE FOR THIS ROLE ARE
• A demonstrable interest in manned and unmanned naval platform markets, industry, technologies, and trends.
• 3-5 years of experience in the defence or defence-related sectors.
• 2+ years of experience in the domain of market research and open source intelligence with a view of tracking contracts, tenders, and price information.
• Experience of working within a data environment (databases, data transformation, data validation or similar).
• Computer competency that includes a thorough working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint applications. Experience in Power BI would be an added advantage.
• Proven record of undertaking project-orientated work to strict deadlines, lead projects, engage with industry and manage large volumes of content.
• Ability to quickly adapt and work with new information technology applications.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including editorial, consulting exposure and public speaking.
• Excellent attention to detail and a logical approach to problem solving as well as ability to identify critical aspects of naval platform markets, such as industrial capacity, technical characteristics and the competitive environment.
• Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in related disciplines such as economics, international relations & politics, natural sciences, engineering or data science. A Master’s degree would also be advantageous.
