The Strategy & Market Intelligence Analyst supports strategic decision-making across business by combining structured problem solving, commercial judgment, market intelligence, and rigorous analysis.

The role will support priority initiatives across service lines, geographies, and strategic themes, including growth strategy, market entry, portfolio choices, partnerships, M&A screening, and strategic planning.

Responsibilities:

Strategic Problem Solving & Recommendation Development

• Structure complex and ambiguous business questions into clear, hypothesis-driven workplans.
• Identify the underlying drivers of business performance, market evolution, and competitive advantage.

Growth Strategy & Business Case Development

• Assess growth opportunities across service lines, customer segments, regions, and countries.
• Evaluate market attractiveness, strategic fit, competitive intensity, required capabilities, and potential economics.
• Build business cases, scenarios, and sensitivities to inform investment and resource-allocation decisions.
• Support market-entry, geographic expansion, service-line development, and portfolio-prioritization initiatives.
• Translate market and customer evidence into clear growth theses and practical action plans.

Market & Competitive Strategy

• Develop fact-based perspectives on market size, growth, customer demand, and competitive dynamics.
• Assess competitors’ service offerings, capabilities, geographic footprints, strategic moves, and partnerships.
• Identify emerging market patterns, disruption risks, capability gaps, and potential sources of differentiation.

Corporate Development & Strategic Projects

• Support M&A screening, partnership assessments, and selected strategic due diligence activities.
• Develop market landscapes, target screens, strategic rationales, and investment narratives.
• Contribute to assessments of new services, business models, capabilities, and geographic opportunities.

Executive Communication & Storytelling

• Produce clear, structured, and executive-ready PowerPoint materials.
• Distill large volumes of information into concise insights, choices, and recommendations.
• Develop insight-led storylines that connect evidence with business implications.

Stakeholder Interaction & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with the Strategy Manager and broader Strategy team as a thought partner and workstream owner.
• Engage stakeholders across Finance, Sales, Services, Operations, and other functions to gather evidence and test hypotheses.
• Coordinate cross-functional project activities and ensure outputs are accurate, timely, and decision-relevant.

Analytical Quality & Knowledge Development

• Ensure analyses are transparent, defensible, and appropriately documented.
• Triangulate internal and external evidence while recognizing data limitations, biases, and uncertainty.
• Use business intelligence, automation, and AI-enabled tools where they improve the quality, speed, or consistency of insight generation.

Educational Background:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Strategy, Economics, Business, Finance, Life Sciences, Engineering, Data Analytics, or a related field.

Work Experience:

• Approximately 2 to 5 years of experience in strategy consulting, corporate strategy, business development, transaction advisory, market intelligence, or another role supporting strategic decisions.
• Experience in a top-tier management consulting firm, or comparable experience in a high-performing internal strategy team, is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience structuring ambiguous problems, developing hypotheses, conducting analysis, and converting findings into recommendations.
• Experience creating executive-ready deliverables and presenting findings to senior stakeholders.
• Experience in healthcare, life sciences, logistics, or complex B2B environments is preferred but not essential.
• Evidence of strong analytical ability, strategic judgment, intellectual curiosity, and personal ownership is essential.
  

Skills and Knowledge:

Strategic & Commercial Thinking

• Strong hypothesis-driven problem-solving skills.
• Ability to connect market, customer, competitor, operational, and financial evidence into a coherent strategic perspective.
• Sound commercial judgment and the ability to distinguish interesting analysis from decision-relevant insight.

Communication, Influence & Executive Presence

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong PowerPoint storytelling and presentation capabilities.
• Ability to translate complexity into clear insights, implications, and recommendations.
• Confidence engaging senior stakeholders and defending a point of view.
• Ability to influence decisions through logic, evidence, and constructive collaboration.

Personal Attributes

• Self-starter who can work independently while seeking input at the appropriate moments.
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity, pace, shifting priorities, and multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Strong organizational skills, reliability, and commitment to delivery.

Essential Technical Skills

• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Ability to build clear, auditable quantitative models.
• Ability to develop concise, executive-ready presentations.
• Working familiarity with business intelligence or data visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau.

Desirable Technical Skills

• Experience with databases or data environments such as Microsoft SQL Server, Access, or comparable tools.
• Experience with analytical or scripting languages such as Python, VBA, or R.
• Experience with data-preparation tools such as Alteryx Designer or similar platforms.
• Experience applying AI-enabled tools and automation to accelerate research, analysis, and knowledge management.

Salary Range Gross per Month:

€2,135.94 - €3,051.37

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What Cencora offers

We offer a competitive annual bonus, life insurance from Day 1, a best-in-class health insurance package, and up to 6 fully paid benefit days a year. As a Cencora employee, you have the benefit of our referral bonus scheme, our boundless learning opportunities and our global Employee Assistance Program. We have a wonderful office location in Quadrum, equipped with everything you need for a small break at work and fresh snacks at all times. Become part of our purpose-driven, multicultural team now and help us create healthier futures

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