Director, Market Planning and Competitive Intelligence

Location: Hybrid, 3 days in office and 2 days remote, from Lincolnshire, Illinois or Holtsville, New York; up to 25% domestic and international travel.

Salary: $156,960–$235,440 annual base pay. Target performance-based annual cash incentive: 20% of base pay.

Company

hirify.global develops smart solutions that help organizations, employees, customers, and partners work more effectively.

What you will do

• Provide market intelligence, competitive analysis, industry research, customer segmentation, and product development insights for sales and marketing.
• Develop market evolution hypotheses, identify emerging competitive threats, and assess strategic adjacencies.
• Create, maintain, and analyze market data using trending, data visualization, statistical methods, and customer insight techniques.
• Build and maintain industry demand forecast models using competitive benchmarking and internal intelligence.
• Engage industry analysts, scope custom research projects, prepare RFPs, and oversee internal research initiatives and suppliers.
• Lead competitive intelligence programs and mentor teams and junior staff while advising executives and cross-functional stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Finance, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred.
• At least 15 years of experience in market intelligence, strategy consulting, financial planning, quantitative data analysis, or a similar field.
• Strong leadership, communication, presentation, collaboration, project management, and executive relationship-building skills.
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking abilities, including the ability to turn large datasets into trends, conclusions, and recommendations.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience with statistical modeling and visualization tools such as R, Python, Power BI, Tableau, SPSS, or SAS is preferred.

Nice to have

• Experience in B2B technology, communications, market research, investment banking, or econometrics.
• Knowledge of Salesforce, database warehousing applications, Monte Carlo simulation, bootstrapping, or discrete choice models.
• Advanced degree in a relevant field.

Culture & Benefits

• Healthcare, wellness programs, inclusion networks, learning and development opportunities, and paid time off.
• Community service days, parental leave, employee assistance, and traditional insurance programs, depending on country of employment.
• Hybrid work, adaptable hours, Summer Flex Fridays, Focus Fridays, and an annual companywide well-being day.
• Additional eligibility for annual cash incentive programs and, for some roles, long-term incentive equity awards.