Strategy Research Manager

Ready to look beyond the horizon and steer a multi-billion-dollar portfolio? As our AECO Strategy Research Manager, you will synthesize complex market dynamics into actionable roadmaps that directly shape our product priorities and global merger and acquisition initiatives. Join us to turn advanced market intelligence into the ultimate compass for industry-wide transformation.

About Us: Trimble is empowering stakeholders through planning, design, construction and the entire asset lifecycle. The company’s innovative and connected ecosystem of solutions improves coordination and collaboration between teams, phases and processes. Automating work and transforming workflows, Trimble is enabling teams to deliver with confidence at every turn. For more information, visit: construction.trimble.com.

What Makes This Role Great: In this role, you will serve as the foundational intelligence engine for our long-term growth, directly influencing high-level product lifecycle management and global corporate investments. You will have a unique platform to counsel executive leadership, pressure-test strategic hypotheses, and define the macro trends that will impact the global enterprise technology landscape over the next 3 to 5 years.

Key Exciting Responsibilities

• Strategic Hypothesis Evaluation: Leverage qualitative and mixed-method insights to identify and pressure-test market-driven opportunities, helping leadership distinguish between compelling ideas and viable strategic opportunities.

• Executive Advisory Programs: Working with AECO Operating teams, develop structured customer panels and executive listening programs that provide leadership with direct exposure to industry stakeholders to build organizational empathy and enable faster, more informed decision-making.

• M&A Target Identification & Commercial Guidance: Collaborate with the AECO Finance and Corporate Development teams to evaluate the external landscape for inorganic growth opportunities.

• Product Roadmap Direction: Partner directly with VP-level Product teams to translate market gaps, competitive vulnerabilities, and emerging customer needs into actionable, multi-year product roadmap requirements.

• Bringing Strategic Customer Segments to Life: Uncover customer motivations, decision-making processes, and unmet needs to complement quantitative segmentation and show executives why customers behave the way they do.

• Macro Market & Trend Forecasting: Monitor, analyze, and predict long-term global enterprise technology trends, including shifting economics, AI consumption models, and data regulations.

• Advanced Vertical Segmentation & Persona Architecture: Understand AECO Addressable Market, sub-segment the enterprise landscape into high-yield verticals, and map the behavioral friction points and economic incentives of B2B buyers.

Essential Skills & Experience

• 8 or more years of experience in strategic market research, corporate strategy, or product marketing within a tech company or consulting practice.

• Proven track record of influencing executive-level decisions regarding product lifecycles and corporate investment strategies.

• Deep expertise designing primary and secondary research methodologies, including advisory boards, surveys, and financial filing analysis.

• Mastery of corporate research tools, such as Gartner, Forrester, Bloomberg, CapIQ, or AlphaSense.

Bonus Points For:

• Prior experience scouting targets for corporate development and M&A activities within the construction or technology sectors.

• Exceptional ability to translate complex data into compelling narrative architectures for executive audiences.

Logistics: Location: Westminster, Colorado, In-Office 4 days per week

Travel Requirement: 15%

Why You'll Love Working With Us At Trimble, we're not just a company that "does good"—we are a team dedicated to making a tangible, positive Real-World Impact.

We build innovative solutions designed to solve the world's most critical challenges. From construction sites to transportation hubs, our work tangibly improves how people live, build, move, and grow.

• You'll work on projects that truly matter: Our purpose-driven culture means you'll be helping to build and deliver solutions that make work faster, safer, and more sustainable for millions of people worldwide. Our impact is tangible, from connected machines that save fuel to data-driven insights that reduce waste.

• Collaborate with like-minded people: Our strong internal culture is a "hidden gem." You will work with a collaborative, supportive team that shares your purpose and fosters a genuine sense of belonging. We're a company of "visionary pragmatists" who think boldly and build things that work.

• Be an owner: Trimble thrives on individuals who take initiative and embrace ownership. You'll find an entrepreneurial spirit where success is often "self-authored," empowering proactive "doers."

Market Research Manager, Corporate Strategy, Product Marketing, AECO, Market Intelligence, M&A Strategy, Technology Trends, Competitive Analysis, Strategic Planning, Business Development

Compensation:  Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

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Benefits:  Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. If this position is identified above as commission- or bonus-eligible, the terms of the commission plan or discretionary bonus plan for which you are eligible will be provided following the employee start date.

How to Apply: Please submit an online application for this position by clicking on the ‘Apply Now’ button located in this posting.

Application Deadline: Trimble accepts applications on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

At Trimble, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Guided by our core values—Belong, Innovate, and Grow—we embrace and celebrate differences, knowing they make us stronger and more innovative. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, welcoming individuals of all backgrounds and advancing opportunities while embracing race, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other protected and diverse characteristic. We are committed to offering our candidates and employees with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs the ability to seek reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law and/or where it would not constitute undue hardship for Trimble. For more, please see Trimble's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics at https://investor.trimble.com, under “Corporate Governance.”

Our mission to transform the way the world works starts with transforming how we work together. By actively listening, asking questions, and taking intentional actions, we cultivate a culture that provides equitable opportunities for everyone to contribute and grow.

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