Key Responsibilities:
- Conduct comprehensive market, competitor, and customer intelligence analysis, including:
- Market trends, industry developments, and demand dynamics
- Regulatory, policy, and macroeconomic developments impacting the industry
- Competitor performance, strategies, and key market initiatives
- Customer needs, purchasing behavior, and key influencing stakeholders
- Develop regular market intelligence reports, strategic analyses, and executive-level presentations with data-driven insights to support business decision-making.
- Support senior management with high-quality analyses and presentations for internal reviews, strategic planning, and external engagements.
- Apply financial analysis to assess market attractiveness, competitor performance, investment opportunities and business implications, supporting fact-based strategic recommendations.
- Leverage AI tools, advanced analytics and digital technologies to enhance research efficiency, insight generation, and overall effectiveness of market intelligence activities
Qualifications and Requirements:
- Minimum 3 years of experience in market intelligence, strategic planning, business analysis, consulting, or related fields.
- Strong strategic thinking and commercial acumen, with the ability to translate complex data into clear market insights and actionable business recommendations.
- Solid financial analysis skills, with the ability to interpret financial statements, evaluate business cases, and assess the strategic implications of market and competitive development.
- Demonstrated curiosity and enthusiasm for AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to explore innovative approaches that improve productivity and analytical capabilities.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in both English and Chinese.
- Bachelor’s degree or above
- Prior experience in consulting firms or manufacturing industries is preferred.
At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.
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Skills Required
- Minimum 3 years of experience in market intelligence, strategic planning, business analysis, consulting, or related fields
- Strong strategic thinking and commercial acumen, ability to translate complex data into actionable recommendations
- Solid financial analysis skills, including interpreting financial statements and evaluating business cases
- Demonstrated curiosity and enthusiasm for AI tools and emerging technologies
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in both English and Chinese
- Bachelor's degree or above
- Prior experience in consulting firms or manufacturing industries
Kone Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Kone and has not been reviewed or approved by Kone.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive across many roles and markets, with field positions sometimes benefiting from overtime and strong union scales. Feedback suggests base compensation is often a relative positive even when other factors vary.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs, including 401(k) and in some regions pension or annuity structures, are consistently highlighted as strong. Feedback suggests these elements meaningfully enhance the overall package.
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Healthcare Strength — Core health coverage is viewed as comprehensive, commonly including medical, dental, and vision options. Feedback suggests a global well‑being framework and EAP resources further reinforce health-related support.
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What We Do
At KONE, our mission is to improve the flow of urban life. This means understanding urbanization and, together with our partners and customers, helping cities to become better and more sustainable places to live. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization to add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Through more effective People Flow®, we make people's journeys safe, convenient and reliable, in taller, smarter buildings. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, we operate in more than 60 countries around the world, employ over 60,000 people and serve 550,000 customers. In 2022, KONE had annual sales of EUR 10.9 billion. KONE class B shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. in Finland.
