Research Analyst Military Platforms
Janes Introduction:
Janes empowers military, government, and defence leaders to act with confidence in an increasingly complex world. Our trusted defence, security, and geopolitical information delivered through seamless digital platforms and system integrations—turns overwhelming data into clear, actionable intelligence and insight. By filling critical information gaps, Janes helps customers analyse threats, accelerate decisions, and stay ahead of emerging challenges.
Job purpose:
Janes is recruiting a Research Analyst for Military Platforms for the Bangalore office in India. The 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 land 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 land 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 land platforms’ portfolio.
The ideal skills and experience for this role are:
- 2+ years of experience in the domain of market research and/or open source intelligence with a view of tracking contracts, tenders, and price information.
- Past experience in the domain of Aerospace and Defence.
- Demonstrable interest, or past experience, in manned and/or unmanned land platform markets, industry, technologies, and trends will be considered as an added advantage.
- Experience in 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.
- 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.
- Attention to detail and a logical approach to problem solving as well as ability to identify critical aspects of land 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, engineering or data science. A Master’s degree would also be advantageous.
Benefits:
- Annual health checkup
- National Pension scheme
- Meal Card (Sodexo)
- Healthy Half (0.5 day leave every 6 months for wellbeing)
- 22 days of annual leave
- Transportation allowance
- Day care / Creche Reimbursement
- Group Medical Claim
- Access to LinkedIn Learning
Life at Janes
We believe Janes is truly a great place to work. Our values and leadership code drive everything we do, and we understand that the right behaviours and culture will always result in the best outcomes for our customers, our colleagues, our shareholders, and our business. We provide a supportive, stretching, and dynamic environment with the ability for you to grow rapidly, both personally and professionally.
Janes is an inclusive and equal opportunities employer and encourages applications regardless of age, race, disability, religion / belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or gender.
Although this role is advertised as full time, Janes believed that flexibility at work can provide many significant benefits both to our colleagues and the business. We already work in a hybrid style across all offices and regions and can support different ways of working and offer different flexible working arrangements. So, if you are interested and have any requirements or needs in the way you would like to work, please apply, and speak to us about this. We will always consider part time or flexible applications
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