Senior Research Manager - AI

Overview

The AI Senior Research Manager, Asia/Pacific, is responsible for achieving the program's financial, business development, and research objectives against assigned targets.

The Senior Research Manager provides thought leadership to the market on important industry trends and coordinates Asia/Pacific research with work delivered in other regions. They serve as IDC Asia/Pacific Insights' primary research leader across AI, generative AI, and agentic AI strategies, data science, cloud, advanced analytics, machine learning, and data engineering.

You won’t be just a theorist. This role will give you the opportunity to use AI, data, and automation technologies to advance our research.

What You'll Do

Consulting & Research Management

• Leading the definition, creation, and production of IDC market intelligence products and solutions for the countries or domains under your responsibility.
• Ensuring IDC's market intelligence meets the needs of existing clients and identifying new opportunities for our capabilities.
• Maintaining research project planning, scheduling, and tracking.
• Acting as the external and internal representative of IDC research for your domain.
• Ensuring the organization produces quality research and analysis by rolling out new and insightful analytical programs, supplemented with thought leadership.
• Ensuring program profitability and running cost/benefit analysis on custom research projects.
• Thought leadership and creation of special reports.

 Custom Research

• Leading AI, data, and analytics consulting and custom research projects.
• Identifying opportunities, assisting in developing proposals, and helping close consulting sales.
• Vetting research methodologies and instruments.
• Creation and delivery of special reports.

Business Development and Client Management

• Developing senior executive relationships with clients and key players in the industry.
• Presenting results at a senior level, or at events, as required.
• Providing strong support for the sales team in qualifying and closing business.
• Working with the sales team to develop strategic selling initiatives and account plans.
• Developing and nurturing a strong client-service mentality in the research team.
• Acting as the client- and media-facing representative for the program in the region.
• Project management of fieldwork, subscription programs, and custom research.

Financial

• Achieving the financial targets established for the group under your responsibility.
• Monthly and annual P&L management and reporting for each research area, by product group and type.
• Annual research budget planning and strategic growth planning.
• New product planning and positioning.

What You Bring

• A flexible, adaptable mind that works at speed. You learn new subjects fast, deliver and respond quickly, and pick up new tools with ease. You're comfortable being trained in areas where you don't yet have experience. We value candidates who want to innovate how research and consulting methodologies can evolve and who are eager to reinvent how research gets done.
• Working knowledge across one or more of:  data science, analytics, generative and agentic AI.
• A track record in research, technology, or a related field, with the seniority to lead a program and represent it externally.
• Effective verbal and written communication when presenting and packaging research deliverables for clients and the public.
• Excellent English communication skills, written and verbal.

Why This Role Stands Out

At IDC, your work helps shape how the world understands technology and where it goes next. You collaborate with curious, high-caliber colleagues who value rigor, integrity, and shared success. As the premier global provider of trusted technology intelligence, IDC equips business and technology leaders with the evidence they need to make confident decisions. Our insights inform strategy, investment, and innovation across industries and regions.

Recognized by IIAR as Analyst Firm of the Year for five consecutive years, IDC sets the standard for credibility and impact. With more than 1,000 analysts worldwide and a truly global perspective, we combine deep expertise with practical relevance. Here, your ideas matter, your voice is heard, and your contributions provide the insights leaders rely on every day. It is meaningful work, backed by a culture that supports growth, collaboration, and long-term career development with a globally respected brand.

What We Offer

• An environment that stretches you: A fast-paced, highly competitive, and transformative environment where you can explore new areas beyond your specialty and stay engaged with work you enjoy.
• Room for entrepreneurs: People with an innovative, entrepreneurial spirit thrive here.
• Hybrid working: A hybrid model, with certain days in the office each week or month.
• Time off and holidays: On top of your statutory holiday allowance and public holidays, IDC grants annually reviewed company-wide closures on 19 August (Unplug Day) and 24 December – 1 January inclusive (Global Shutdown), plus a volunteering day.
• A globally respected platform: A role in a highly professional, globally respected market research and advisory firm, where initiative that drives results is rewarded.

Equal Opportunity Employer

IDC is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all qualified persons. Employment eligibility verification required. We participate in E-Verify.

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