Senior Manager Analyst Relations

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What you'll be doing...

As a member of Verizon's Analyst Relations team, you will elevate our presence in the market by communicating with the industry analyst community. You'll ensure we're represented in major industry reports and reviews while putting our message out in the market and sharing the ways we're making businesses run faster, better, and smarter.

• Ability to understand and articulate the organization's technology offering and place in the ecosystem.

• Ability to deliver business cases and points of validation.

• Contribute to end-to-end execution of AR strategy.

• Identify and foster relationships with key analysts.

• Identify and support market-critical reports in relevant technologies.

• Develop and deploy best practices for AR program engagement.

• Connect with business stakeholders to understand evolving needs and trends.

• Illuminate opportunities for competitive advantage using analyst insights.

• Proactively reinforce vision and strategy in the market.

• Think strategically and identify creative solutions.

• Drive presence in industry-impacting reports like Magic Quadrants.

• Develop and orchestrate message delivery for analysts.

• Partner with strategy, marketing, and communications leads to align messaging.

• Ability to distill complex topics into actionable feedback.

People listen to you-you are credible and people believe what you say. You are a persuasive communicator on paper and aloud. You can take a message and translate it for each audience so that it lands just right. You are a strategic thinker who can craft a vision and keep it in mind while attending to all the details along the way. You can synthesize lots of ideas into one compelling message. You can support sales teams as they seek innovative ways to support customers.

This is the role our industry analyst team performs for Verizon Business and if you identify with these attributes, we would welcome you to the team.

You are curious about what people need and want. You enjoy digging through data for insight into opportunities for how we can help our consumers work, play and connect in new and better ways.

You'll need to have:

• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

• Six or more years of relevant work experience with industry analysts.

• Experience within a leading technology or telecommunications company.

• Experience supporting Executives or C-Suite leaders.

• Experience crafting plans and moving places in MQs, WAVEs, MarketScapes, or other major analyst landscape reports.

• Willingness to travel up to approximately 25% of the time.

Even Better If You Have one or more of the following:

• A Master's degree.

• Proficiency with Architect Database.

• Ability to work independently under tight deadlines.

• Industry Analyst Relations Professional certification.

• Experience with Networking Solutions.

• Specific Product Marketing or related marketing/communications functional experience.

• Presented to senior executives and external audiences.

• Collaborated and influenced both internal and external teams.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every "even better" qualification listed above.

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