Location : Bangalore

Job Summary :

The Team Lead - Market Intelligence will play a pivotal role in driving LKQ Europe's market intelligence agenda through a balanced combination of technical leadership (60%) and market intelligence expertise (40%).

This role will lead a team in GCC to deliver high-quality analytical solutions, proactive market insights, and scalable reporting frameworks that support strategic decision-making across key dimensions such as market trends, customer behavior, competitor landscape, and macroeconomic indicators.

Essential Job Duties :

Market Intelligence & Strategic Insights :

- Partner with LKQ Europe Market Intelligence / strategic stakeholders to understand business questions and translate them into structured analytical frameworks and execution plans.

- Generate strategic insights across market trends, customer behavior, competitor landscape, market potential, and macro-economic indicators to support decision-making.

- Synthesize insights from internal data, secondary research, and external market sources to provide clear business implications and recommendations.

- Guide hypothesis-based analysis and apply statistical techniques such as hypothesis testing, correlation analysis, regression analysis, trend analysis, variance analysis, and market potential estimation.

- Support and oversee survey analytics and structured feedback mechanisms, including questionnaire design, sampling approach, result interpretation, and voice-of-customer / NPS-type analyses where required.

- Convert complex findings into concise, business-friendly insights and executive-level narratives for senior stakeholders.

Technical & Analytical Leadership :

- Lead the design, development, and deployment of analytical solutions, dashboards, and automation workflows to support Market Intelligence priorities.

- Apply strong technical expertise in SQL, Excel, Python, BI tools, automation, and machine learning to solve business problems and improve productivity.

- Build and enhance scalable analytical assets including data models, KPI frameworks, reporting layers, and reusable insight-generation templates.

- Drive automation of recurring analyses, data preparation workflows, and reporting tasks to improve speed, accuracy, and scalability.

- Support development of predictive and advanced analytical use cases using machine learning techniques such as regression, classification, clustering, time-series analysis, anomaly detection, and NLP, where relevant to market intelligence use cases.

- Ensure analytical outputs are business-consumable by integrating insights into Power BI / Tableau / Qlik / Incorta reporting environments and executive-ready deliverables.

- Promote best practices in data quality, documentation, coding standards, model governance, explainability, and continuous improvement.

Partnership with LKQE Strategic Team & GCC Delivery Leadership :

- Act as the primary bridge between the LKQE strategic / Market Intelligence team and the GCC delivery team, ensuring priorities are clearly understood, structured, and translated into actionable workstreams.

- Relay business context, strategic direction, analytical requirements, and expected outcomes from Europe to the GCC team in a clear and scalable manner.

- Establish strong operating rhythms with stakeholders to review priorities, align deliverables, remove blockers, and continuously improve quality of execution.

- Ensure GCC output is aligned with the broader LKQ Europe strategy and delivered with the speed, rigor, and storytelling expected by senior stakeholders.

Team Leadership & People Management :

- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of analysts / data professionals supporting Market Intelligence workstreams.

- Set clear goals, define expectations, and build capability across technical skills, business understanding, stakeholder management, and data storytelling.

- Drive a high-performance and collaborative team culture focused on ownership, continuous learning, innovation, and delivery excellence.

- Allocate work effectively across team members based on business priorities, capability, and development needs.

- Coach team members on structured problem solving, insight generation, communication quality, and stakeholder engagement.

- Ensure strong review mechanisms, quality standards, and documentation practices across all deliverables.

Basic Qualifications :

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Statistics, Business Analytics, Data Science, Computer Science, or a related field. A postgraduate qualification with strong analytics exposure is an advantage.

Experience :

8 - 12 years of relevant experience across Market Intelligence, Business Analytics, Strategy, Data Analytics, or Data Science roles.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities :

- Strong expertise in SQL for complex querying, analysis, and data extraction.

- Strong hands-on capability in Excel for analysis, modeling, reporting, and structured business analysis.

- Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Qlik / Qlik Sense / QlikView / Incorta, or similar BI tools for dashboarding and business consumption.

- Programming proficiency in Python (and/or R) for automation, data transformation, analytics, and model development.

- Practical understanding of machine learning concepts and tools, with the ability to identify appropriate use cases in a business setting.

- Strong grounding in Market Intelligence topics, including market trends, customer insights, competitor analysis, macroeconomic context, secondary research, and strategic recommendation development.

- Strong quantitative and statistical thinking, including hypothesis-led analysis and data-backed problem solving.

- Ability to influence, communicate, and collaborate effectively with multinational and cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications :

- Exposure to Microsoft Fabric or other modern data platforms.

- Experience in end-to-end analytics / AI / ML lifecycle management, including deployment, monitoring, and business adoption.

- Experience in automation-led process improvement and proof-of-concept development.

- Familiarity with secondary research tools, survey tools (e.g., Survey Monkey / forms-based survey platforms), and external data enrichment approaches.

Personal Attributes :

- Strong people leader with the ability to coach, develop, and inspire teams.

- Structured thinker with strong business acumen and a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.

- Self-starter who can manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment with high ownership and accountability.

- Strong collaboration mindset with the ability to work across business, analytics, IT, and regional teams.

- Effective communicator who can simplify complexity and drive confidence with senior stakeholders.