Pricing Intelligence & Market Research Intern

Function

Our Company

We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks ­– can focus on achieving the incredible with data.

If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.

Job description

The Team

The Strategic Pricing and Competitive Intelligence teams supports strategic pricing decisions by delivering competitive insights, market research, and AI enabled tools that help Sales and Commercial teams price smarter and faster.

One key initiative is building and automating the delivery of market data, competitive pricing, and value positioning to support real-time commercial decision making.

The Role

We are looking for a highly motivated intern to support our pricing intelligence and automation initiatives.

This role sits at the intersection of market research, competitive pricing analysis, data gathering and compilation, and AI-driven insights, and will provide hands-on exposure to real commercial pricing challenges in a global technology organization. You will support research, data gathering and preparation, insight synthesis, and AI content readiness used in pricing tools, dashboards, and pilot projects.

Half of your time will be focused on building pricing tools using/leveraging AI to generate apps (options include building automation for deal analysis, price forecasting, competitive price review, TCO, and sustainability cost benefit calculators, etc. The other half of your time will be focused on finding, compiling, and sharing real-time competitive pricing and market updates.

Market & Competitive Research

• Support market and competitive research across storage and technology segments
• Help to design and develop formats and structures for the delivery of qualitative and quantitative insights
• Compile competitor pricing and positioning into structured formats

Pricing Intelligence Support

• Help maintain and improve competitive pricing libraries used by pricing, sales, and sales support teams

Automation & AI Enablement

• Support data preparation and content structuring for the AI‑powered competitive pricing capabilities
• Help translate market and pricing insights into AI‑ready knowledge (FAQs, prompts, guided questions, summaries)
• Assist in testing AI responses for accuracy, clarity, and business relevance

Data & Insight Organization

• Clean, organize, and document datasets used in pricing tools and dashboards

What You’ll Bring

• Currently in the final two years of pursuing a degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Data Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
• Strong analytical and research skills with a keen attention to detail
• Comfortable working with Excel and structured data
• Ability to synthesize complex information into clear insights
• Strong written communication skills in English

What You’ll Gain

• Hands‑on experience in data gathering, pricing analysis, competitive intelligence, and AI‑driven tools
• Exposure to real‑world competitive pricing scenarios and commercial strategy
• Opportunity to contribute directly to global AI pricing automation used by Sales and Pricing teams
• Mentorship from experienced Pricing, Commercial, and Strategy professionals

Internship Details

• Type: Internship (Full‑time or Part‑time, depending on availability)
• Duration: Flexible (e.g., 10 – 12 weeks)
• Location: Hybrid or Remote (depending on candidate location)

About us

We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.