Job Description

The Strategy & Market Intelligence Analyst supports strategic decision-making across business by combining structured problem solving, commercial judgment, market intelligence, and rigorous analysis.

The role will support priority initiatives across service lines, geographies, and strategic themes, including growth strategy, market entry, portfolio choices, partnerships, M&A screening, and strategic planning.

Responsibilities:

Strategic Problem Solving & Recommendation Development

• Structure complex and ambiguous business questions into clear, hypothesis-driven workplans.
• Identify the underlying drivers of business performance, market evolution, and competitive advantage.

Growth Strategy & Business Case Development

• Assess growth opportunities across service lines, customer segments, regions, and countries.
• Evaluate market attractiveness, strategic fit, competitive intensity, required capabilities, and potential economics.
• Build business cases, scenarios, and sensitivities to inform investment and resource-allocation decisions.
• Support market-entry, geographic expansion, service-line development, and portfolio-prioritization initiatives.
• Translate market and customer evidence into clear growth theses and practical action plans.

Market & Competitive Strategy

• Develop fact-based perspectives on market size, growth, customer demand, and competitive dynamics.
• Assess competitors’ service offerings, capabilities, geographic footprints, strategic moves, and partnerships.
• Identify emerging market patterns, disruption risks, capability gaps, and potential sources of differentiation.

Corporate Development & Strategic Projects

• Support M&A screening, partnership assessments, and selected strategic due diligence activities.
• Develop market landscapes, target screens, strategic rationales, and investment narratives.
• Contribute to assessments of new services, business models, capabilities, and geographic opportunities.

Executive Communication & Storytelling

• Produce clear, structured, and executive-ready PowerPoint materials.
• Distill large volumes of information into concise insights, choices, and recommendations.
• Develop insight-led storylines that connect evidence with business implications.

Stakeholder Interaction & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with the Strategy Manager and broader Strategy team as a thought partner and workstream owner.
• Engage stakeholders across Finance, Sales, Services, Operations, and other functions to gather evidence and test hypotheses.
• Coordinate cross-functional project activities and ensure outputs are accurate, timely, and decision-relevant.

Analytical Quality & Knowledge Development

• Ensure analyses are transparent, defensible, and appropriately documented.
• Triangulate internal and external evidence while recognizing data limitations, biases, and uncertainty.
• Use business intelligence, automation, and AI-enabled tools where they improve the quality, speed, or consistency of insight generation.

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Educational Background:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Strategy, Economics, Business, Finance, Life Sciences, Engineering, Data Analytics, or a related field.

Work Experience:

• Approximately 3 to 5 years of experience in strategy consulting, corporate strategy, business development, transaction advisory, market intelligence, or another role supporting strategic decisions.
• Experience in a top-tier management consulting firm, or comparable experience in a high-performing internal strategy team, is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience structuring ambiguous problems, developing hypotheses, conducting analysis, and converting findings into recommendations.
• Experience creating executive-ready deliverables and presenting findings to senior stakeholders.
• Experience in healthcare, life sciences, logistics, or complex B2B environments is preferred but not essential.
• Evidence of strong analytical ability, strategic judgment, intellectual curiosity, and personal ownership is essential.

What Cencora offers

​Benefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.

Full time

Affiliated Companies

Affiliated Companies: World Courier Management Ltd.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email [email protected]. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned