Senior Innovation Analyst

Lighthouse Technology Services is partnering with our client to fill their Senior Innovation Analyst role! This is a direct placement opportunity and will be onsite in Buffalo NY. No C2C or subcontracting arrangements will be considered.

Role Summary

Translate technical opportunities into decision-ready business assessments that drive product development priorities. Bridge technical specialists product teams and leadership by transforming raw product ideas into structured evaluations including market sizing customer value competitive positioning and business case fundamentals.

What Youll Be Doing:

Opportunity Assessment & Analysis

• Transform half-formed technical concepts into structured business assessments by collaborating with technical specialists product experts and engineering teams
• Produce rigorous opportunity assessments including market sizing customer value framing competitive positioning target customer identification business case fundamentals (TCO ROI payback) and risk analysis
• Deliver decision-ready recommendations that directly inform executive prioritization and investment decisions

Customer Validation

• Lead targeted customer engagement to validate assessment assumptions and ground opportunities in real demand
• Conduct on-site discovery with plant managers process engineers and operations leadership to test business-critical assumptions

Market Requirements Documentation

• Author Market Requirements Documents (MRDs) for prioritized opportunities defining market problems customer segments use cases competitive landscape and success metrics
• Provide structured handoffs to product and engineering teams for downstream development

Market Intelligence

• Maintain working knowledge of competitive offerings pricing dynamics and market trends across verticals (Mining & Industrial Oil & Gas Drilling Civil Construction) and adjacent industries
• Ground all assessments in current market reality

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Build strong cross-functional relationships with technical commercial and operations teams
• Guide engineers and product specialists in framing business questions and support commercial leaders with structured opportunity views for innovation investment decisions

What Youll Need to Have:

• Travel: Up to 15% to customer sites plants and industry events
• Bachelors degree required; MBA or other business-focused graduate degree strongly preferredideally paired with a technical undergraduate (engineering science or related discipline).
• 5 years in product management product planning business analysismanagement consulting (especially industrial practices) or related disciplines that developstructured business judgment.
• Strong understanding of industrial industries: (examples: civil construction mining oil & gas)
• Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous opportunities and develop them into clear decision-readybusiness assessments.
• Strong written communication particularly in structured analytical documents opportunityassessments business cases MRDs executive briefs or similar artifacts.
• Comfortable working alongside technical experts and translating between technical possibilityand business viability. Industrial manufacturing or B2B equipment context strongly preferred.
• Strong business judgment: comfortable with market sizing value-in-use logic TCO and ROIfundamentals competitive positioning and the trade-offs that arise in prioritization decisions.
• Self-directed and effective in ambiguity; able to structure problems independently and bringwell-framed recommendations forward rather than waiting for direction

Pay Range: $00/annually

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