About the Role

KARL STORZ is seeking a strategic, data-driven Senior Market Research Analyst to help shape commercial strategy through actionable market intelligence, competitive insights, and business analytics. In this highly visible role, you will partner across Marketing, Sales, Product Marketing, Operations, Finance, and Global Solutions teams to translate complex data into meaningful insights that drive growth, innovation, and competitive differentiation.

The ideal candidate combines strong analytical expertise with business acumen, curiosity, and the ability to clearly communicate findings to diverse stakeholders across the organization.

What You'll Do

Market Research & Business Analytics

• Conduct market research across multiple data sources to identify trends, opportunities, and risks impacting current and future business performance.
• Develop dashboards, reports, and visualizations using tools such as Tableau and Power BI to measure business performance and strategic initiative progress.
• Analyze key performance indicators and harmonize reporting processes to improve visibility and decision making.
• Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for commercial and marketing stakeholders.
• Develop recommendations that support growth opportunities, operational improvements, and business optimization.
• Partner with business leaders and cross-functional teams to ensure data-driven decisions align with organizational objectives.

Competitive Intelligence & Market Insights

• Lead market intelligence initiatives, including market sizing, segmentation analyses, growth forecasting, and trend monitoring.
• Analyze competitive activity, including products, pricing, positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategies.
• Create competitive profiles, battlecards, win/loss analyses, and other tools to support sales and marketing effectiveness.
• Monitor industry developments, customer needs, regulatory changes, and emerging technologies.
• Develop forecasting models and business cases that support evaluation of future solutions and strategic investments.
• Deliver insights that strengthen market positioning and competitive advantage.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate with marketing teams to promote organizational learning, best practices, and knowledge sharing.
• Support enterprise-level analytics projects that improve alignment, measurement, and business outcomes across teams.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, quality standards, and regulatory requirements.

What You Bring

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, Finance, Statistics, Accounting, Healthcare Administration, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in market research, business analytics, competitive intelligence, or related analytical roles within the healthcare industry.
• Experience utilizing market and customer insights to support business strategy and commercial decision making.
• Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret complex datasets.
• Experience building dashboards, reports, and data visualizations that drive action and accountability.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.

Required Technical Skills

• Strong understanding of financial analysis, business modeling, and forecasting methodologies.
• Experience with analytics and visualization tools such as Tableau and Power BI.
• Knowledge of marketing analytics, including campaign performance, lead-to-pipeline conversion, event ROI, and digital engagement metrics.
• Experience with customer segmentation and healthcare market analysis.
• Familiarity with product and portfolio analytics, utilization trends, and commercial performance measurement.
• Working knowledge of data and analytical tools such as SQL, Python, and/or R.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in business, Finance, Statistics, Healthcare, or a related field.
• Experience conducting research and market analysis within the ENT (Ear, Nose, and Throat) market.
• Advanced expertise in healthcare market intelligence, forecasting, and competitive analysis.

Travel

• Up to 20% travel throughout the United States.
• Travel may include customer engagements, training programs, conferences, hospitals, surgery centers, laboratories, and other healthcare facilities.
• Responsible for maintaining required hospital credentialing and adhering to all facility protocols and KARL STORZ standards.

What Makes You Successful

• Naturally curious and driven to uncover insights that inform business decisions.
• Skilled at translating complex analysis into clear, compelling recommendations.
• Self-motivated, organized, and able to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborative and influential, with strong cross-functional partnership skills.
• Guided by integrity, accountability, and a results-oriented mindset.

Eligible Employee Benefits

• Medical / Dental / Vision including a state-of-the-art wellness program and access to pet insurance, too!
• 3 weeks vacation accrual for full time roles,* paid holidays plus paid sick time too
• Up to 8 weeks of 100% paid company parental leave; includes maternal/ paternal leave, adoption, and fostering of a child.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan providing a match of 66.67% (4%) of the employee's first 6% contribution (up to IRS limits)
• Section 125 Flexible Spending Accounts
• HSA Savings Accounts with company contribution
• Life, STD & LTD Insurance
• We prepay your tuition up to $5,250 per year! - Tuition pre-imbursement
• Fitness reimbursement of up to $200 annually
• And much more!
  * Field sales, internships, and roles that are regularly scheduled to work less than 30 hours per week are not eligible for vacation, except where required by law.
  
  Non-employees, including temporary workers and consultants, are not eligible to participate in the KARL STORZ benefits program.
  
  KARL STORZ reserves the right to change or modify the employee's job description whether orally or in writing, at any time during the employment relationship. Additionally, KARL STORZ, through its supervisors, may require an employee to perform duties outside their normal description within the sole discretion of the supervisor. Employees must comply will all applicable KARL STORZ policies and procedures.

Credentialing requirements at KARL STORZ

KARL STORZ is committed to maintaining a safe work environment for our employees and customers. Most field-based roles at KARL STORZ require hospital credentialing/health screens as a condition of employment. Credentialing can include required vaccinations, health screens & other requirements as outlined by our customers. During the interview process, we encourage you to ask how credentialing/health screens may impact the role you are seeking and if you require any reasonable accommodations regarding these requirements.

Pay Transparency

The pay range and/or hourly pay rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job posting and may be modified in the future. When determining a specific team member's base salary and/or hourly pay rate, several factors will be considered including such things as location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, professional credentials, internal equity, and the amount budgeted for the role.

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