Janes enables militaries, governments, and defence companies to make critical decisions. Our expert-driven tradecraft, developed over 125 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 Open-Source Intelligence creates a framework of interconnected national security insights that allows our customers to better understand emerging threats, integrate all relevant data and connections into a single intelligence environment, and to deliver a more complete and accurate answer to their intelligence analysis. Using Janes, enables our customers to better use their scarce resource more effectively, to support better decisions with higher confidence, more quickly.
Job purpose
The Land Team is on the lookout for a Senior Analyst to join their small team and assume primary responsibility as the subject matter expert on armoured fighting vehicles and wider land platforms product area.
How you will contribute at Janes
- You will be responsible for provision of information specifically on armoured fighting vehicles but also wider land platforms content,
- You will undertake research, update, and create Janes reference records as directed and deliver to metrics provided by the business.
- You will provide subject matter expertise on land platforms to customer, the business and wider stakeholders that will include updating records, contributing to webinars, and writing news stories relevant to your subject.
- Develop and maintain relationships with manufacturers and users for research and information.
- Lead the development and implementation of improvements to the product set within your area of expertise and wider land and weapons content.
Requirements
- Considerable experience in armoured fighting vehicles either with a manufacturer or a number of years as a user across multiple platforms.
- Proven track record in explaining technical concepts to a lay audience combined with the ability to interact and gain respect from technical specialists.
- Able to develop and build relationships with other external subject matter experts.
- Be a confident communicator and effective speaker on their specialist subject – fluent written and spoken English are essential. Additionally, proven writing skills in technical subjects would be an advantage.
- Organisation and problem-solving skills including the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
- Working knowledge of relevant software applications including content management software would be an advantage.
- Additional languages skills in Russian or Chinese would be valued.
Benefits
- 27 days of annual leave
- Healthy half (0.5 day leave every 6 months for wellbeing)
- Leave- study/ volunteer/ reserve forces
- Pension plan (6% employer contribution)
- Private medical insurance – Vitality
- Maternity (100% of basic salary for the first 26 weeks followed by Statutory Maternity Pay)
- Paternity (100% of basic salary for 6 weeks)
- Life cover
- Access to GoodHabitz
- Access to an on-site gym
