We are on a mission to make science open so everyone can live healthy lives on a healthy planet

Who we are

Frontiers is the 3rd most-cited and 6th largest research publisher and we publish groundbreaking discoveries by the world's top experts.

Scientists empower society and our mission is to accelerate scientific discovery by making science open. We place the researcher at the center of everything we do and enable the research community to develop the solutions we need to live healthy lives on a healthy planet.

Join the publishing revolution.

The Role

Frontiers' Institutional Partnerships team works with research institutions/libraries, consortia, and funders to improve the ways researchers are supported when publishing open access.

We are looking for a Market Intelligence Analyst to join the team to report into the Institutional Partnerships Development Manager. You will play a crucial role in expanding the Institutional Partnerships Program by providing strategic market research and competitor analysis and developing market intelligence reports and resources with a focus on collaborations between publishers and research institutions, consortia, and funders.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and perform a range of quantitative analyses of market and business data to derive meaningful conclusions and insights leading to actionable recommendations.
• Conduct market and competitive intelligence, determining relevance and context, and delivering reports.
• Support the development of target lists for outreach to institutions, consortia, and funders.
• Provide country, funder and institute-specific bespoke datasets and insights.
• Conduct market research, research of institutional customer needs, gap analyses, and feasibility studies to analyse the viability of alternative or continued institutional business growth opportunities, including different business models.
• Work collaboratively with Institutional Partnerships Development Specialists, a Reporting Analyst, and analysts in the Business Intelligence department on a project basis.
• Query and analyse data from multiple internal and external data sources and create insightful summaries and visualisations.
• Communicate complex analysis clearly and concisely to a range of audiences including Institutional Partnerships sales and management colleagues.
• Support the development of institutional market intelligence dashboards for of-the-shelf use by colleagues and potential integration in other system.
• Support the assessment of and creation of guidelines for third-party resources such as Dimensions, Scopus, Web of Science, OpenAPC, and ESAC Registry.

Requirements

• Solid experience in market and competitive intelligence, OR understanding of the scholarly publishing industry and its market trends and drivers.
• Experience of developing, managing, and running data gathering and analytical projects.
• Excellent communication skills, with ability to write reports, present results, and provide actionable insights.
• Experience of successfully delivering projects to deadlines.
• Expert user of Excel.
• Python, Tableau, and SQL skills (desirable) or basic Python and SQL skills with a willingness to advance.
• Experience with other BI tools and platforms to retrieve, manipulate, visualize, and analyse data.
• Able to work successfully as part of a team, working collaboratively to deliver results, and providing feedback and quality assurance as needed.

Benefits

With more than 50 nationalities represented in our global team, you will work regularly with teammates in other countries, and with our community of researchers, editors, and authors from around the globe.

Our mission to create solutions for healthy lives also extends to the working environment we provide for our employees.

This includes:

100% remote working

Employees now have the flexibility to choose where they want to work, with remote working available on a part- or full-time basis (not applicable to some Workplace/IT jobs due to nature of role requiring presence onsite, in the office).

Learning and development

All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning (and Pluralsight for our technology team), an annual personal learning budget, and dedicated L&D time.

Wellbeing

We offer free online yoga classes, an employee assistance plan, access to the Headspace app, and four wellbeing days on top of your annual leave allowance.

Volunteering opportunities

Employees can dedicate three days each year to volunteer for a personal cause or through our volunteering partner platform, Alaya.

Frontiers actively embraces diversity and is a safe and welcoming workplace. Recruitment is free from discrimination - including based on race, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or sexual orientation. With over 600 employees from more than 50 different nations, our diversity creates vibrant teams and constantly challenges us to appreciate multiple perspectives.