Market Analyst

Who We Are

Applied Materials is a global leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. We design, build and service cutting-edge equipment that helps our customers manufacture display and semiconductor chips – the brains of devices we use every day. As the foundation of the global electronics industry, Applied enables the exciting technologies that literally connect our world – like AI and IoT. If you want to push the boundaries of materials science and engineering to create next generation technology, join us to deliver material innovation that changes the world. 

What We Offer

Salary:

$106,000.00 - $146,000.00

Location:

Santa Clara,CA

You’ll benefit from a supportive work culture that encourages you to learn, develop, and grow your career as you take on challenges and drive innovative solutions for our customers. We empower our team to push the boundaries of what is possible—while learning every day in a supportive leading global company. Visit our Careers website to learn more. 

At Applied Materials, we care about the health and wellbeing of our employees. We’re committed to providing programs and support that encourage personal and professional growth and care for you at work, at home, or wherever you may go. Learn more about our benefits. 

Job Profile Summary
 

Applied Materials is the world leader in materials engineering solutions, enabling the production of virtually every new chip and advanced display globally. Our cutting-edge expertise in modifying materials at the atomic level and at scale empowers customers to create revolutionary products—from smartphones and supercomputers to virtual reality headsets and autonomous vehicles. At Applied Materials, we believe in turning bold ideas into reality. Our innovations Make Possible a Better Future.

Within our company, the same "Make Possible" philosophy drives everything we do. We are passionate about our people and teams who continuously push the boundaries of today’s benchmarks, achieving great things while empowering others along the way. We're proud to foster a Culture of Inclusion, where everyone feels they belong, are empowered to bring their whole self to work, and are inspired to grow.

In this exciting and challenging role, you'll have the opportunity to engage with a wide range of domains within a strategic marketing analytics team. You’ll take ownership of maintaining and improving existing solutions, while also developing new ones using analytical tools. This is an intermediate level position designed for you to showcase your analytical expertise and grow your career, whether deeper in the technical realm or expand into the business and management domain.

Key Responsibilities

• Data and Communication: Go-to person for updating financial and market models that blend complex disparate qualitative and quantitative sources, aligns assumptions with key stakeholders, and presents results clearly and concisely.
• Financial & Marketing Models: Build and maintain financial and marketing models in Excel to support data-driving decision-making and forecasting.
• Go-to expert on market data: Studies quantitative data, applied business domain knowledge, formulates and tests hypotheses, discovers business implications from the data, understands dataset and how it connect to various business and market verticals/horizontals.
• Communicating Insights: Apply your understanding of the data and the business into meaningful insights and concise summaries, ensuring the audience understands the story behind the numbers.

Functional Knowledge

• Intermediate to expert in ETL processes or concepts and familiarity with Excel is foundational to success here.
• Familiarity with data visualization and design principles that emphasizes audience experience and accessibility.
• Solid grasp of basic statistical analysis, attention to detail, pattern recognition, with ability to zoom in & out of a data landscape.

Business Expertise / Orientation

• Impacts high level strategic decisions across multiple departments and domains, so an understanding of- or rapid ability to learn- how data supports and how decisions are made in financial, marketing strategies, and product management is essential.
• Can zoom in and out from transaction-level-detail to architectural design of data pipelines and business processes.
• Passion for simplifying sophistication, eliminating unnecessary complexity while streamlining and demystifying necessary complexity.

Leadership

• Takes full ownership of projects, set timelines, and guides stakeholders in the right direction based on data, insights, and milestones.
• Champion for data-driven decision-making and using technology (think: data science/ML) to improve the productivity of your customers.

Impact

• Immediate visibility and impact across the organization and business.  Your data products, models, and data-driven insights directly influence strategic initiatives.

Interpersonal Skills

• Able to explain complex ideas in simple terms, exchanges straightforward information, asks questions and checks for understanding.
• Collaborate with a variety of personalities, so being a team player with an open attitude and a solution-oriented mindset is a must.

Minimum Requirements:

• Strength with Excel and marketing anlaysis.
• Basic statistics knowledge, critical thinking,
• Track record of building data models and data products that are not only functional but delightful to use.  Communicates with clarity and influence.

Ideal Requirements:

• 3+ years of work that demonstrates analytical prowess, business or social impact acumen, with an ability to communicate with impact.
• Advanced experience and command with Excel, data wrangling/ETL, and automating data pipelines.
• Experience working with and connecting datasets from various sources and concepts from multiple domains.
• Experience building (coding, vibe coding, or using ETL packages) production-worthy programs or apps that leverage complex and disparate data sets.

Additional Information

Time Type:

Full time

Employee Type:

Assignee / Regular

Travel:

No

Relocation Eligible:

No

The salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location, hire grade, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and with consideration of internal equity of our current team members. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable.

For all sales roles, the posted salary range is the Target Total Cash (TTC) range for the role, which is the sum of base salary and target bonus amount at 100% goal achievement.

Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

In addition, Applied endeavors to make our careers site accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact us via e-mail at Accommodations_Program@amat.com, or by calling our HR Direct Help Line at 877-612-7547, option 1, and following the prompts to speak to an HR Advisor. This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.