Senior Research Analyst

Overview

IDC is seeking a Senior Analyst, Tech Buyer Data to join our TechMatch program. In this hands-on role, you will research software markets, create and refresh high volumes of commercial information on software providers, and ensure data quality for our AI-driven sourcing platform. You will be a key contributor to a team that is reshaping how enterprises evaluate and select technology, cutting through the complexity of vendor landscapes and accelerating software procurement with trusted, data-driven insights.

Why IDC ?

IDC’s mission is to provide clarity, confidence, and actionable insight in an increasingly complex technology landscape. We help IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community make fact-based decisions by transforming deep market expertise and data into trusted guidance. As part of the TechMatch team, you will work with a global group of analysts, engineers, and product managers to build, continuously improve and scale the data sources that power actionable, AI-driven software sourcing intelligence.

About IDC: International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global market intelligence, data, and events provider for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. With more than 1,300 analysts worldwide, IDC offers global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends in over 110 countries. IDC’s analysis and insight help IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community make fact-based technology decisions and achieve their key business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Research software markets, identifying key vendors, products, pricing, and commercial terms.
• Data standardization - classification of unstructured text input into structured columns e.g. Product, Module, SKU
• Create and refresh large volumes of commercial information for software providers, ensuring comprehensive coverage of products, modules, SKUs, and pricing structures.
• Use AI tools to prepopulate, clean, and enrich datasets on IT vendors.
• Perform thorough quality assurance on platform and external data, identifying and remediating errors or inconsistencies.
• Support the development of analytics features for vendor evaluation and comparison.
• Collaborate with engineers and product managers to refine data models and reporting capabilities.
• Data analysis including Quality checks, extracting key findings, suggested Quality Remediation

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years' experience as a Data Analyst, Market Analyst, Business Analyst or Data Scientist
• Strong understanding of IT and Software ecosystems and value chains
• Advanced Excel (e.g. pivot, flat file, vlookup, offset, match)
• Communication skills – Explaining issues and findings effectively
• Analytical skills – i.e. find and classify the important bits of data
• Attention to detail – doesn’t get tired to find issues
• Coachability and willingness to learn new systems and skills
• Open feedback mindset (disagree and commit, candor)
• Creative data problem-solving including ability to create synthetic data with low-levels of data input
• Ability to gain trust, negotiate and work with technical teams and business stakeholders

Qualifications (additional)

• Experience with LLM Chat interface search and Web data analysis (e.g. Perplexity, ChatGPT Deep Research)
• Advanced Power Point creation skills
• Previous experience in companies providing evaluation, benchmarking, vendor comparison solutions in software/cloud/IT space

IDC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are considered for positions and are evaluated without regard to mental or physical disability, handicap, race, color, religion, gender, gender identity and expression, ancestry, national origin, age, genetic.