Posted: 3/8/2010
Title: Director, Competitive Intelligence
Location: Princeton, NJ
Summary: The Director has global responsibility for the gathering and dissemination of competitive intelligence. Proactively plans, organizes and leads ETS competitive intelligence activities. Directs the work of the competitive intelligence staff. Works closely with the Chief Strategic Officer and senior management to identify competitive, intelligence needs. Determines the focus for intelligence gathering to support strategic directions and ongoing strategic and business planning. Serves as an internal consultant providing counsel on global business intelligence questions and issues. Communicates intelligence insights and implications across the organizations to senior management and key stakeholders. Influences strategic decision-making with high quality, actionable analyses and recommendations. Hire, manage and develop competitive intelligence staff. Direct and oversee the work of the competitive intelligence staff ensuring that all deliverables are comprehensive, insightful, actionable, address internal client needs and meet deadlines. Establish effective internal and external business intelligence networks on a global basis. Lead the development, implementation and consistent utilization of tools and processes to capture, analyze and communicate business intelligence, insights with actionable recommendations. Includes implementing a tracking system to monitor the progress made against recommended actions. Serve as the competitive intelligence corporate champion. Advocate for action and promote the appropriate allocation of resources to senior management given the competitive landscape. Work with the Chief Strategic Officer (CSO) to develop a corporate intelligence analysis assessment process to support long-range, strategic and operational planning. Work with key staff in strategic business units, marketing, channel, business development and other key stakeholders to determine their intelligence needs. Implement action plans to deliver actionable intelligence. Establish and lead the Market and Competitive Intelligence (MCIT), cross-functional, corporate team. Create, implement and monitor communication plan for MCIT. Identify and evaluate business opportunities in US and global markets. Develop and implement early warning processes and systems to provide early warning of competitive threats, emerging market place and industry trends and other issues that could impact specific business units and the company.
Source: CI Radar
Topics: Competitive Intelligence, Competitor Research, Market Intelligence, Competitive Intelligence Firms