(US) Senior Technical Market Research Analyst / Cold-Call Intelligence Specialist

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We are looking for an exceptionally strong analytical researcher to support a business development and cold-calling team working with manufacturing, industrial, engineering, and technical companies.

This is not a basic VA role. This is a role for someone who can read difficult technical material, understand the business problem behind it, and prepare research that helps our cold-calling team sound highly knowledgeable in the first 30 seconds of a customer conversation.

The goal is simple: when our caller speaks with a potential business customer, the customer should feel: “This person understands our industry, our technical problems, and why this supplier may matter to us.”

Work Schedule

You must be available to work:

Monday evening to Friday evening
11:00 PM to 3:00 AM Philippine time

This schedule is required because the role supports U.S.-time-zone business development. You must be able to maintain focus, energy, and high-quality thinking during this shift.

Main Responsibilities

You will research companies, industries, products, applications, and technical problems before our cold-calling team contacts potential customers.

Your work will include:

Reading technical articles, product descriptions, datasheets, company websites, industry pages, and market information.
Identifying what the target company likely cares about commercially and technically.
Preparing short but powerful cold-call research notes.
Creating smart opening statements and questions that make the customer feel we understand their business.
Finding possible pain points, supplier gaps, product opportunities, quality issues, cost issues, or process risks.
Translating technical information into business-development language.
Supporting lead research for manufacturing, industrial supply, engineering, importing/exporting, and B2B sales campaigns.
Helping the calling team approach each prospect with a customized, intelligent reason for contact.
Required Qualifications

This role is for a serious, highly analytical person.

You must have:

A Master’s degree or equivalent advanced academic background.
Exceptional analytical and logical thinking.
Strong English reading and writing ability.
Ability to read heavy technical material and summarize it clearly.
Ability to connect technical product features to customer pain points.
Strong business curiosity.
Strong discipline and ability to work during the required overnight schedule.
Reliable computer and internet connection.
Ability to work independently without constant supervision.
Ability to produce accurate, useful, and practical research quickly.
Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is someone who enjoys solving difficult business research problems.

You may be a good fit if you:

Like reading technical or industrial material.
Can understand complex topics even when they are outside your original field.
Can ask, “Why does this matter to the customer?”
Can turn difficult information into simple, powerful sales language.
Are comfortable researching manufacturing, industrial products, engineering applications, supply chains, and U.S. market opportunities.
Think logically and do not just copy/paste from websites.

Read the text below:

“High-vacuum fasteners are not just ‘better stainless screws.’ They are fasteners designed so they do not trap gas, shed particles, outgas oils/water/hydrocarbons, or create ‘virtual leaks’ inside a vacuum chamber.

In vacuum terminology, HV is commonly around 10?³ to 10?? mbar, and UHV around 10?? to 10?¹² mbar. At those pressures, surface cleanliness and tiny trapped gas volumes start to dominate performance, so ordinary fasteners can become a real process problem.

The core problem: virtual leaks.

A normal screw threaded into a blind tapped hole traps a small pocket of air under the screw and along the threads. That pocket may slowly bleed gas into the chamber during pump-down. To the vacuum system, it looks like a small leak, even though there is no hole to atmosphere. This is called a virtual leak.

Regular bolts inside a vacuum chamber can leave small air pockets under their threads, and those pockets can take a very long time to pump down because of low gas conductance. Vented screws use drilled holes to prevent gas pockets and speed pump-down. Vented screws provide a path for trapped air and surface contaminants such as water to be pumped away from blind-tapped holes, improving pump-down and reducing virtual leaks.”

Now answer:

Create one cold-call statement or question that would make a potential customer interested in finding a better fastener supplier for their vacuum application.

Your answer should:

Show that you understood the technical problem.
Connect the problem to the customer’s business or process pain.
Sound natural for a real phone conversation.
Be specific, not generic.
Avoid sounding like a textbook.
Make the customer curious enough to continue the conversation.
How to Apply

Please send:

Your resume.
Header of the application must contain word: HIGH IQ.
Your highest degree completed.
Your answer to the test question above.
One example of a difficult topic you researched and explained clearly.
Confirmation that you can work 11 PM to 3 AM Philippine time, Monday evening to Friday evening.
Your expected monthly salary.

Applications without the test answer will not be considered.

What We Offer
Long-term role for the right person.
Direct exposure to U.S. and international business development.
Work involving manufacturing, industrial markets, technical products, and advanced research.
Opportunity to become a key intelligence partner for a business development team.
Clear expectations and serious work for serious professionals.

We are looking for someone with unusual intelligence, discipline, and curiosity. If you enjoy deep research, technical logic, and turning complex ideas into powerful business conversations, we would like to hear from you.