Insight Researcher

**Date**:31 Jan 2024

**Location**: Theale, GB

**Company**:Honda Motor Europe Ltd

At Honda we embrace inclusion in our various policies, so whilst our contracts state that the hours are as required to fulfil the role with a minimum of 35 hours per week, we offer flexibility for when you work. The regular office hours are 08:00 - 16:00 Monday to Thursday with a half hour lunch break & 08:00 - 13:00 on a Friday. However, we offer flexibility of when you work with our daily flex-time start of between 07:00 and 11:00 providing that there is no business requirement.

Whilst there is no contractual right to work from home, the flexibility we offer is that you can request to work from home for a maximum of 50% of the working days in any one month, again providing there is no business requirement to attend the office.

**Role**:
Stakeholder management is a key requirement, ensuring high quality and agreed timelines are met, including the requirement to work with both the Honda teams and wider external network. Strong communication skills are essential for building working relationships and to develop a comprehensive network both within and outside of the company.

**Main Responsibilities**:

- Conduct in-depth research on emerging trends and technologies, with a specific emphasis on future digital domains, to understand future societal implications.
- Detailed documentation and reporting on topic deep dives, assessing evolving landscapes, anticipating future market directions, and identifying risks and opportunities (across PESTEL).
- Monitoring and tracking of targeted ecosystems, identification of new funding opportunities (UK focus), VC trends, and identification of engagement opportunities for the wider business.
- Actively engage in workshops, networking events, and seminars to support the development and access to the wider UK ecosystem.
- Travel within the UK (and EU) to attend conferences, suppliers, workshops, and seminars.

**Qualifications, skills and experience**:
**Required**
- University degree-level in related field e.g. Business, Economics, Technology, or a equiv. discipline
- Robust research capability and methodologies to distil key insights from complex multi-domain data sources.
- Experience in industry and mid-term forecasting analysis focusing on industry developments, regulatory changes, and emerging trends.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to document simple narratives to explain complex issues/systems and be able to adapt communication style to suit different audiences.
- Proactive and self-motivated with the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Extensive knowledge of MS office suite (Excel, PowerPoint & Word).

**Desirable**
- Strong interest in the interplay between technology and society and a desire to further develop their knowledge.
- Proficiency in data analytics & visualisation tools. Familiarity with Mobility, Energy and/or Data industry.

Honda is committed to the principle of equal opportunity in the workplace for all employees, temporary workers, contractors, applicants and visitors. Honda also encourages respect for the individual differences and talents of others while making full use of one's own abilities, based on Honda's philosophy of respect for the individual.

At Honda, we value and celebrate diversity and are committed to being a fair, non-discriminatory company that promotes and welcomes the uniqueness and differences of people around the world. We recognise that a diverse workforce allows for different ideas and perspectives, and we encourage everyone to share them. We strive to foster a culture of belonging that is consistent with Honda's core values and lived out in the way we work and respect each other. For us at Honda, diversifying our workforce means increasing its overall strength by providing people with equal opportunities - regardless of personal characteristics or previous careers.

This commitment flows directly from the Honda philosophy and the belief that we are all working towards a common goal. Honda recruits, hires, trains and promotes the most qualified/experienced individuals at all levels without regard to race, origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability or any other protected characteristic.

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