Analyst, Data Center Services & Infrastructure – Middle East & Africa (MEA), 451 Research

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The Role: Analyst Data Center Services & Infrastructure Middle East & Africa (MEA) 451 Research

*This role is exclusively for Saudi nationals. Please note that we do not offer sponsorship or relocation for this position.

The Team:451 Research a business unit of S&P Global Energy Horizons is a leading independent technology research and advisory firm delivering data-driven insight on AI Data Centers & Infrastructure Enterprise IT Cloud Services Quantum and other emerging technologies. Our analysts deliver crucial timely insights into market and competitive dynamics within emerging technology sectors and connect technology adoption signals with energy markets infrastructure planning and sustainability trends to support strategic decision-making across the digital economy.

The Data Center & Infrastructure Research team has been deeply involved with the data center market for over a decade. We produce both qualitative and quantitative analysis of the industry providing insight into the companies active in the industry; their customers; trends impacting the industry and how the industry differs from city to city.

The Impact: We serve a wide variety of customers including data center operators investors and lenders cloud and managed service providers and enterprises that are datacenter customers. Our clients depend on us to cover trends and issues around data centers by country as well as topics that impact the industry more broadly such as energy management and sustainability how workloads for AI and IoT impact datacenters the cloud in all its forms and government regulation. Customers use our research when making investment and other key decisions.

Responsibilities and Impact:

• Own market research from signal to story: Track analyze and publish research on Middle East datacenter services and infrastructuretranslating complex developments into clear decision-ready insights for global clients.
• Build and protect data integrity: Maintain and enhance a proprietary datacenter database ensuring accuracy consistency and timely updates across markets cities operators and capacity indicators.
• Deliver country- and city-level intelligence: Provide qualitative and quantitative analysis on trends constraints and opportunitiescovering topics like supply pipelines demand drivers pricing signals and ecosystem maturity.
• Follow the forces reshaping the sector: Monitor and explain the impact of energy management sustainability AI/IoT workloads cloud services adoption and government regulation on datacenter strategy and investment.
• Engage the market directly: Conduct outreach and interviews with operators investors cloud service providers vendors and enterprise buyers to validate findings and uncover whats happening between the lines.
• Power client engagements: Support consulting projects by gathering evidence pressure-testing assumptions and producing crisp deliverables that help clients make confident decisions.
• Bring insights to life: Contribute to webinars briefings and conferenceshelping shape external messaging and building your presence as an emerging regional datacenter expert.
• Collaborate across a global research engine: Partner with colleagues across research data and commercial teams to align coverage priorities and continuously improve how we serve clients.
• Stay ahead of MEA market dynamics: Maintain fluency in market and industry developments to anticipate customer needs and proactively surface new opportunities.

What Were Looking For:

Basic Required Qualifications:

• Experience working with datasets databases or analytical tools (e.g. Excel SQL BI tools like Power BI/Tableau or similar) to support research reporting or forecasting.
• Strong written communication skills with the ability to clearly present complex data-backed insights to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Fluent English and Arabic (required); additional language capability is strongly valued for market coverage and relationship building.
• 3 years of experience in data-driven roles such as market research data analysis consulting or market intelligence with a track record of working with structured and unstructured datasets to generate actionable insights.
• Relevant work experience in a related field (datacenter exposure is a plus)
• Undergraduate or graduate degree either a writing/communications degree or liberal arts degree with an interest in technology or a technical degree (math science engineering MIS IT) with a minor in writing.
• Ability/willingness to travel.

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• Commercially minded.
• Presentation and data visualization skills.
• Basic understanding of global power markets as it pertains to data center energy demand.

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