Market Intelligence Specialist

Department

The  Market Intelligence Specialist is part of the Sales Planning & Market Intelligence (SP&MI) team which supports strategic & tactical commercial decision making within Robeco and evaluation of commercial performance using both internal commercial data and external market data. The Rotterdam based team consists of 7 persons including the Manager SP&MI who reports to the Robeco Executive Committee member responsible for Global Sales & Marketing. The team works closely together with Sales, Marketing, Product Management and the Strategic Business Development teams within Robeco.

Position & Requirements

Purpose of the role is to:

• Further develop and maintain a framework of internal and external data sources (data sets, research tools and research reports) increasingly using AI-enabled analytics to enable the SP&MI team to identify market trends and answer market intelligence requests related to e.g. industry trends, market sizing and flows, product innovation, distribution channels, pricing and competition.
• Work closely together with other team members to further develop the service model of market intelligence aligning available scarce resources (fte, budget) with an ever increasing intelligence demand and increasing amount of data sources (traditional market data and alternative data sources).
• Equip the Robeco Sales teams and Product Management with valuable market, customer, and competition data insights and signals (asked and unasked).

Key responsibilities:

• Further develop and maintain existing market intelligence publications used to provide Robeco with a constant heart beat of market information.
• Pro-actively scan for market trends & developments, growth and (cross) selling opportunities with relevance for Robeco’s commercial strategy.
• Leverage AI tools, data science techniques and advanced analytics to enhance generation of commercial insights. Build and maintain data models and dashboards integrating CRM, external data sources, and market intelligence feeds.
• Employ initiatives/projects independently and with other team members in further developing a scalable market intelligence framework combining human expertise with AI augmentation.
• Translate insights into clear, concise, sales and product management friendly messaging and producing executive-level summaries and presentations

Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in business administration, economics, finance, information management or an equivalent qualification
• At least 3-5 years relevant working experience within the asset management industry with relevant knowledge of wholesale and institutional business.
• Experience in working with large volumes of data and being able to apply data analytics and data science concepts to master the ever increasing volume of data (structured and unstructured).
• Data-driven user-centred design approach to analysis and data management, with demonstrated ability to deliver information that addresses and anticipates various stakeholder users’ needs
• Be a critical independent thinker, able to read into the data and “connecting the dots” using your strong data analytics skills
• Mastering all the standard IT-tools including advanced Excel skills in an office environment. Proactive, curious, and digitally savvy (embracing AI and new technologies). Knowledge of BI tooling (Qlik Sense), CRM tooling (MS Dynamics) tooling is a strong plus.
• Experience with market research tools like e.g. Broadridge, Morningstar, Mandatewire, eVestment etc. is a plus but no hard requirement. Willingness to master these tools is a hard requirement.
• Experience or strong affinity with automation, scripting, or AI-driven analytics (e.g., Python, SQL, or similar) to scale insight generation is a plus for the future.
• Fast learner and effective communicator of new / complex information. Ability to translate technical business acumen into easily understood messaging for a wide range of audiences

All applications will be treated with the utmost confidentiality. An assessment and integrity test may be used in the selection procedure.