Director of Strategic Analytics & Intelligence

Overview
Cambridge Aerospace is seeking a Director, Strategic Analytics & Intelligence to lead the intelligence and analytical capability supporting strategic decisions across the business. You will combine market analysis, competitive intelligence and forward-looking assessments of the global defence environment to identify emerging opportunities, anticipate threats and guide long-term strategy.

This role brings together strategic intelligence and quantitative analysis, translating complex market, geopolitical and technological information into actionable insights. You will develop forecasting models, executive reporting and decision-support tools, while building a specialist analytics team and coordinating with existing company intelligence functions.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic intelligence activities, assessing defence trends, geopolitical developments, emerging technologies and future warfare concepts
• Develop market and competitor intelligence covering defence spending, procurement programmes, customer priorities and competitive threats
• Oversee quantitative analysis including market sizing (TAM, SAM and SOM), country attractiveness, growth pipelines, win rates and portfolio performance
• Develop forecasting models, dashboards and analytical frameworks to support strategic, investment and resource allocation decisions
• Produce intelligence briefings, future threat assessments, strategic forecasts and executive decision-support reports
• Build and manage the analytics team, initially including a Senior Data Analyst, coordinating closely with existing intelligence functions

Requirements

• Significant experience in strategic intelligence, market analytics, corporate strategy or a comparable analytical leadership role
• Strong understanding of market intelligence, competitive analysis, forecasting and strategic research
• Proven ability to interpret complex quantitative and qualitative information and provide actionable recommendations
• Experience developing analytical models, dashboards and decision-support frameworks
• Excellent commercial and strategic judgement, with the ability to identify opportunities and assess emerging threats
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, including communicating complex findings to senior decision-makers

Preferred Qualifications/Experience

• Experience in defence, aerospace, national security or a related industry
• Understanding of global defence procurement, military capability development and emerging defence technologies
• Experience assessing geopolitical risk, defence spending trends and international markets
• Familiarity with Python, SQL, Power BI, Tableau or equivalent analytical tools
• Experience establishing or scaling an intelligence or analytics function
• Experience in fast-paced R&D or startup environments, with rapid prototype iteration times

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation and stock options
• Private medical and dental cover
• Cycle to work scheme
• Lunchtime catering on site

About Us
The mission of Cambridge Aerospace is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe. That risk comes from the air – low-cost drones and cruise missiles now manufactured in colossal volumes by our adversaries, ballistic missiles capable of ending the world as we know it, and a new generation of hypersonic weapons that evade every existing defence.

We're building low-cost interceptors that defeat these threats, and the surveillance systems to detect and target them – at a cost taxpayers can afford, at the pace the threat demands, and with sovereign supply chains that assure delivery.

We have immense backing from the world's best venture funds. We're one of the fastest-growing defence technology companies in history. And we're hiring the best talent to prosecute the mission.

If you are in the top 1%, willing to work harder than you ever have, build technology better than anyone else, and contribute to the defining challenge of our time, now is the time to join us.

Our Commitment to Inclusion
We're committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. If you're excited about this role but don't meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.