Strategy Research Manager

Drive Growth as Our Next AECO 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.

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 life cycles 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 Alpha Sense.

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…