Help Shape Strategic Decisions Through Market Intelligence
Cummins is seeking a Market Intelligence Manager to lead the Market Intelligence Resource Center and deliver actionable market insights that help leaders make informed business decisions. This role combines market research, competitive intelligence, forecasting, stakeholder consulting, and knowledge management.
You will serve as a trusted advisor to business leaders across Cummins, translating complex market signals into practical recommendations while ensuring our market intelligence resources are accessible, relevant, and impactful.
In This Role, You Will
Deliver Strategic Market Intelligence
- Monitor industry trends, competitive activity, customer dynamics, and emerging market developments.
- Conduct market analyses that identify growth opportunities, risks, and strategic implications.
- Deliver data-driven insights and recommendations that support business and strategic planning decisions.
- Develop forecasts using historical data, market drivers, and industry trends.
- Conduct competitive assessments and respond to ad hoc intelligence requests.
Lead the Market Intelligence Resource Center
- Manage the Market Intelligence portal to ensure intelligence resources, research, tools, and deliverables are current, organized, searchable, and easy to access.
- Develop effective methods for sharing market intelligence across the organization to maximize visibility, adoption, and impact.
- Partner with stakeholders to increase awareness and utilization of available market insights resources.
- Identify opportunities to improve how market intelligence is captured, managed, and distributed.
Partner with Business Leaders
- Build strong relationships with leaders across business units and corporate functions.
- Act as a strategic thought partner by translating complex market information into meaningful business insights.
- Tailor intelligence deliverables to stakeholder needs and preferred communication styles.
- Support special projects and strategic initiatives requiring market analysis or external perspectives.
Manage External Intelligence Resources
- Develop and maintain relationships with industry experts, trade associations, research providers, and external intelligence networks.
- Manage market insights vendors, including contracts, scope definition, performance expectations, and ongoing relationship management.
- Evaluate new intelligence sources and tools to strengthen organizational market awareness.
Lead and Enable Excellence
- Support and mentor analysts and project teams as needed.
- Apply effective project management practices to balance competing priorities and deliver high-quality outputs.
- Champion a culture of insight generation, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning.
To Be Successful in This Role, You Will Have
- Strong business acumen and analytical thinking skills.
- Ability to synthesize complex information into clear business insights and recommendations.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong project management and prioritization capabilities.
- Ability to influence and collaborate across functions and organizational levels.
- Curiosity and a strong external orientation toward market, customer, and industry trends.
Required Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Economics, Strategy, Market Research, or a related field.
Experience
- 5–7 years of experience in strategy, business analysis, marketing, market research, consulting, or a related field.
- Experience developing insights and recommendations from multiple information sources.
- Experience working with business stakeholders to support decision-making.
The Market Insights Manager, DATA CENTERS will become a subject matter expert on global data center markets, delivering actionable insights that inform strategic decision-making. This role primarily supports the Power Generation (PowerGen) business and also collaborates across the Market Insights team to support priority projects in other markets.
The Manager synthesizes complex data and qualitative information into clear, compelling insights that shape growth strategies, identify market opportunities, and anticipate risks. By closely monitoring industry developments and competitor activity, the role provides forward-looking perspectives on how markets are evolving and where value is shifting. The role is responsible for developing forecasts and analyzing market dynamics, including emerging trends, evolving business models, regulatory shifts, and competitive landscapes.
This position partners closely with business leaders in PSBU, DBU, Tech Strategy and other businesses to translate market intelligence into strategic recommendations, supporting investment decisions, portfolio positioning, and long-term planning. The role requires a strong external orientation, continuously integrating insights from industry reports, customer signals, and ecosystem developments to maintain a comprehensive view of the market.
Preferred Qualifications:
Knowledge of and experience in energy and power markets
Prior consulting experience
The position can be located in Minnesota or Indiana.
About UsCummins is an equal opportunity employer. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, sex, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity, or other status protected by law.Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Economics, Strategy, Market Research, or a related field
- 5-7 years of experience in strategy, business analysis, marketing, market research, consulting, or a related field
- Experience developing insights and recommendations from multiple information sources
- Experience working with business stakeholders to support decision-making
- Knowledge of and experience in energy and power markets
- Prior consulting experience
Cummins Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cummins and has not been reviewed or approved by Cummins.
-
Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company contribution/match and both defined contribution and defined benefit pension plans are offered, alongside profit sharing and an employee stock purchase plan. This mix supports long-term savings and financial security.
-
Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan options (HSA, HSA Plus, PPO) with dental, vision, life and long-term disability coverage are provided, along with telehealth, mental-health support, and wellness tools. In-network protections and HSA/HSA Plus structures are described to help manage costs.
-
Parental & Family Support — Paid maternity and paternity leave, family medical leave, and adoption assistance are offered. Reduced or flexible hours and unpaid extended leave options further support caregiving needs.
Cummins Insights
What We Do
At Cummins, we empower everyone to grow their careers through meaningful work, building inclusive and equitable teams, coaching, development and opportunities to make a difference. Across our entire organization, you'll find engineers, developers, and technicians who are innovating, designing, testing, and building. You'll also find accountants, marketers, as well as manufacturing, quality and supply chain specialists who are working with technology that's just as innovative and advanced.
