Analyst, Competitive Intelligence
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP is a top-tier Canadian law firm focused on high-stakes matters. They are seeking an Analyst for Competitive Intelligence to gather, organize, and analyze data to support marketing and business development opportunities while contributing to strategic decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Extract, clean and organize data from CRM systems, experience databases and internal reports
- Build and maintain Excel-based trackers and basic dashboards to monitor client activity, deal flow and competitor trends
- Work with large datasets, ensuring accuracy, consistency and usability
- Support the development of repeatable reporting processes
- Track league tables, including Bloomberg and Mergermarket, and update internal datasets
- Monitor competitor activity including hires, mandates and public announcements
- Maintain structured datasets to support ongoing market analysis
- Support the preparation of competitor profiles and market summaries
- Contribute to identifying patterns and trends in data
- Assist in drafting summaries and reports based on data and research
- Support senior team members in translating data into clear takeaways
- Respond to data requests from marketing and business development teams
- Support go-to-market efforts with accurate, timely data
- Work regularly in Excel and CRM systems to support reporting and analysis
- Help maintain data quality and consistency across systems
- Support improvements to templates, trackers and reporting processes
- Work closely with marketing, business development and other internal teams
- Take direction from senior CI team members while building confidence and independence
- Contribute to a team environment focused on accuracy, clarity and responsiveness
Skills
- One to four (1–4) years of experience in data analysis, research, business intelligence or a related degree
- Strong Excel skills, including working with large datasets, formulas and data manipulation
- Experience working with CRM or structured datasets is an asset
- Comfort working with numbers and detail-oriented tasks
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities
- Clear written and verbal communication skills
- Experience in professional services is helpful but not required
- Bilingual French and English is an asset for Montréal
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