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Get Access To All JobsAt RHI Magnesita, winning in complex industrial markets depends on deep insight — not just data. As a Market Intelligence Analyst, you play a critical role in shaping how our Sales organization understands customers, competitors, and market dynamics.
This role sits at the intersection of strategy, sales, analytics, and AI. You’ll partner directly with the Head of Steel Sales North America and commercial leadership to transform market data, customer feedback, and sales intelligence into actionable insights that drive pricing decisions, portfolio optimization, and long-term growth.
You’ll gain hands-on exposure to customers, collaborate closely with sales teams, and help build the next generation of AI-enabled market intelligence. If you’re curious, analytical, personable, and excited by the idea of turning insight into impact, this role delivers.
What You’ll Do
- Serve as a strategic intelligence partner to sales leadership, delivering insights that inform commercial and strategic decisions
- Research and analyze steel and industrial market trends, combining internal sales data with external market intelligence
- Partner closely with the sales team to collect field intelligence, structure inputs, and convert insights into clear market narratives
- Build and maintain executive-ready dashboards, reports, and briefings using Excel, Power BI, CRM systems, and other analytics tools
- Conduct deep dives into specific markets or segments (e.g., MPG) to support targeted growth strategies
- Travel to customer sites to develop firsthand understanding of customer operations, needs, and decision drivers
- Leverage and help develop AI-enabled analytics tools to automate intelligence gathering, accelerate analysis, and uncover trends
- Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and relevance across multiple internal and external sources
What You’ll Need to Be Successful
To thrive in this role, you’ll combine strong analytical capability with commercial curiosity and a relationship-driven mindset.
- 3–4 years of experience in market intelligence, business analysis, strategy, or commercial analytics
- Advanced proficiency in Excel; experience with Power BI, CRM tools (Microsoft CRM a plus), or similar platforms
- Comfort working with large data sets and synthesizing inputs from multiple sources
- Ability to translate complex analysis into clear, business-focused insights for non-technical stakeholders
- Strong communication skills and confidence partnering with sales teams and senior leaders
- Interest in AI, advanced analytics, and modern intelligence tools
- Experience in steel, refractories, manufacturing, or B2B industrial markets is a plus
How You’ll Grow
This role offers meaningful exposure and accelerated learning. In your first 30 days, you’ll focus on onboarding, systems, and customer exposure to build a strong foundation. Early travel and close collaboration with sales will fast-track your understanding of markets and decision drivers.
Over time, you’ll expand ownership of market intelligence initiatives, deepen your strategic influence, and help shape how RHI Magnesita uses data and AI to compete and win. The visibility, relationships, and experience gained create strong pathways for long-term growth within the organization.
Work Environment
This role is remote-friendly, with a strong preference for candidates based in or near Pittsburgh. Travel is an important part of the role, especially early on, with up to approximately 75% travel in the first few months to accelerate learning and customer immersion. Travel typically transitions to once per month thereafter. All travel and customer-facing activities are conducted in accordance with RHI Magnesita’s safety policies.
Who We Are
RHI Magnesita is the leading global supplier of high‑grade refractory products, systems and solutions which are critical for high‑temperature processes in a wide range of industries. Serving customers around the world, RHI Magnesita has more than 20,000 employees in 65 main production sites (including raw material sites), 12 recycling facilities and more than 70 sales offices.
RHI Magnesita’s team in North America helps build refractory products that solve the most extreme manufacturing challenges. From advanced lithium‑ion batteries for laptops and EVs and specialized glass on smartphones and tablets, to the steel and cement that build the world around us, our high‑performance bricks and linings make it possible to melt, bend, shape, and refine these materials at extreme temperatures.
With a vertically integrated value chain, RHI Magnesita has helped forge the materials that build industries and economies for almost 200 years. Refractory products are essential to the production processes for cement, steel, aluminum, and many other industrial producers in the region.
Come get fired up with our North American team!
At RHI Magnesita, winning in complex industrial markets depends on deep insight — not just data. As a Market Intelligence Analyst, you play a critical role in shaping how our Sales organization understands customers, competitors, and market dynamics.
This role sits at the intersection of strategy, sales, analytics, and AI. You’ll partner directly with the Head of Steel Sales North America and commercial leadership to transform market data, customer feedback, and sales intelligence into actionable insights that drive pricing decisions, portfolio optimization, and long-term growth.
You’ll gain hands-on exposure to customers, collaborate closely with sales teams, and help build the next generation of AI-enabled market intelligence. If you’re curious, analytical, personable, and excited by the idea of turning insight into impact, this role delivers.
What You’ll Do
- Serve as a strategic intelligence partner to sales leadership, delivering insights that inform commercial and strategic decisions
- Research and analyze steel and industrial market trends, combining internal sales data with external market intelligence
- Partner closely with the sales team to collect field intelligence, structure inputs, and convert insights into clear market narratives
- Build and maintain executive-ready dashboards, reports, and briefings using Excel, Power BI, CRM systems, and other analytics tools
- Conduct deep dives into specific markets or segments (e.g., MPG) to support targeted growth strategies
- Travel to customer sites to develop firsthand understanding of customer operations, needs, and decision drivers
- Leverage and help develop AI-enabled analytics tools to automate intelligence gathering, accelerate analysis, and uncover trends
- Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and relevance across multiple internal and external sources
What You’ll Need to Be Successful
To thrive in this role, you’ll combine strong analytical capability with commercial curiosity and a relationship-driven mindset.
- 3–4 years of experience in market intelligence, business analysis, strategy, or commercial analytics
- Advanced proficiency in Excel; experience with Power BI, CRM tools (Microsoft CRM a plus), or similar platforms
- Comfort working with large data sets and synthesizing inputs from multiple sources
- Ability to translate complex analysis into clear, business-focused insights for non-technical stakeholders
- Strong communication skills and confidence partnering with sales teams and senior leaders
- Interest in AI, advanced analytics, and modern intelligence tools
- Experience in steel, refractories, manufacturing, or B2B industrial markets is a plus
How You’ll Grow
This role offers meaningful exposure and accelerated learning. In your first 30 days, you’ll focus on onboarding, systems, and customer exposure to build a strong foundation. Early travel and close collaboration with sales will fast-track your understanding of markets and decision drivers.
Over time, you’ll expand ownership of market intelligence initiatives, deepen your strategic influence, and help shape how RHI Magnesita uses data and AI to compete and win. The visibility, relationships, and experience gained create strong pathways for long-term growth within the organization.
Work Environment
This role is remote-friendly, with a strong preference for candidates based in or near Pittsburgh. Travel is an important part of the role, especially early on, with up to approximately 75% travel in the first few months to accelerate learning and customer immersion. Travel typically transitions to once per month thereafter. All travel and customer-facing activities are conducted in accordance with RHI Magnesita’s safety policies.
Who We Are
RHI Magnesita is the leading global supplier of high‑grade refractory products, systems and solutions which are critical for high‑temperature processes in a wide range of industries. Serving customers around the world, RHI Magnesita has more than 20,000 employees in 65 main production sites (including raw material sites), 12 recycling facilities and more than 70 sales offices.
RHI Magnesita’s team in North America helps build refractory products that solve the most extreme manufacturing challenges. From advanced lithium‑ion batteries for laptops and EVs and specialized glass on smartphones and tablets, to the steel and cement that build the world around us, our high‑performance bricks and linings make it possible to melt, bend, shape, and refine these materials at extreme temperatures.
With a vertically integrated value chain, RHI Magnesita has helped forge the materials that build industries and economies for almost 200 years. Refractory products are essential to the production processes for cement, steel, aluminum, and many other industrial producers in the region.
Come get fired up with our North American team!
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Strategy Analyst
Map your degree to the SOC code
USCIS evaluates specialty occupation by matching your degree field to the role's SOC classification. Pull the O*NET profile for Strategy Analyst positions and confirm your transcript aligns with the listed education requirements before applying.
Verify the LCA wage tier before negotiating
Your offer salary must meet the DOL prevailing wage for your metro area and experience level. Run the OFLC Wage Search for the relevant SOC code and location so you know which wage tier applies before salary discussions begin.
Target employers with cap-exempt affiliations
Strategy Analysts at nonprofits, research institutions, or university-affiliated consulting units may qualify for cap-exempt H-1B filings. Ask recruiters directly whether the entity holds cap-exempt status, since these roles bypass the annual lottery entirely.
Use Migrate Mate to filter by H-1B filing history
Filter Strategy Analyst openings by employers with verified H-1B LCA filing history on Migrate Mate. This surfaces companies that have actively sponsored the role before, not just those with general sponsorship policies that may exclude your position.
Request the I-129 filing timeline in writing
Ask your hiring contact to confirm whether the employer files by the April 1 cap registration deadline and whether premium processing is included. Strategy Analyst roles with October 1 start dates require the petition submitted well before that window.
Document consulting deliverables as specialty occupation evidence
If your role involves external clients or cross-functional projects, keep records of frameworks, deliverables, and degree-specific methodology you applied. USCIS may issue an RFE for consulting-adjacent analyst roles, and this documentation directly supports the specialty occupation requirement.
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Find Strategy Analyst JobsStrategy Analyst H-1B Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Strategy Analyst role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, if the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a directly related field such as business, economics, finance, or management. The employer must demonstrate that the degree requirement is standard for the role. Generic analyst titles that accept any bachelor's degree can draw RFEs, so the job description wording matters.
Which employers sponsor H-1B visas for Strategy Analyst roles?
Consulting firms, financial services companies, technology companies, and large corporations with dedicated strategy functions are the most consistent H-1B sponsors for this role. Migrate Mate lets you filter Strategy Analyst openings by employers with confirmed LCA filing history, so you can focus your search on companies that have actually sponsored the position before.
Can I transfer my H-1B to a new employer for a Strategy Analyst role?
Yes. Under H-1B portability, you can start working for a new employer as soon as the transfer petition is filed with USCIS, as long as your prior H-1B was approved and you've maintained valid status. The new employer files a fresh I-129, but you don't need to wait for approval before your start date.
What happens to my H-1B status if my Strategy Analyst role shifts to a different function?
A material change in job duties, location, or salary can require an amended H-1B petition. If your role expands into a different SOC classification or your worksite changes to a new metro area, your employer needs to file an amendment and potentially a new LCA. Informal title changes alone don't always trigger this, but substantive duty shifts do.
How does the H-1B lottery affect my chances as a Strategy Analyst?
Strategy Analyst roles are subject to the standard H-1B cap of 65,000 regular slots plus 20,000 for U.S. master's degree holders. USCIS conducts a randomized lottery each March for the following fiscal year. Holding a U.S. master's degree enters you in both pools, improving your selection odds compared to the general cap alone.
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