Position Title: Market Intelligence Manager
Reporting To: Managing Director of Business Development
Location: Greater Chicago Area
The Company: Tyree & D’Angelo Partners
Company Overview
Tyree & D'Angelo Partners ("TDP") is a private equity investment firm that focuses on control investments in the lower middle market (companies with $1-5M of EBITDA). We look for investments where we can establish true collaborative partnerships with business owners and management teams that will lead to substantial value creation over a long-term investment horizon.
TDP’s track record of building high-growth and lower risk companies is driven by a buy & build investment strategy, that is based on tested methods of value creation and a true partnership approach with executives and business owners. TDP works in collaboration with executive leaders utilizing an investment thesis driven process designed to build companies with a differentiated customer value proposition.
TDP invests in the healthcare, consumer, and business services sectors, focusing on high-quality founder owned businesses that we can grow with our high probability of success process. TDP companies have completed over 1,000 partnerships, have grown to over $4 billion of enterprise value, and TDP has over $1.4 billion of capital under management. For more information, please visit www.TDPfund.com
Job Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end research process: target identification, company screening, ownership verification, sourcing contact information and market intelligence
- Collaborate with the investment and business development teams to understand acquisition criteria, industries, geographies, owner‑structures, and size
- Build and manage a team of analysts; establish research methodologies, QA frameworks and reporting cadence
- Establish benchmarks and KPIs for the research function to effectively and accurately track progress and report performance
- Create dashboards and metrics to measure research output, quality, conversion to investment pipeline and team productivity
- Build and maintain a proprietary pipeline of target companies. Collect and validate ownership/contact info and enrich profiles with contextual notes (market signals, sale‑trigger indicators, competitive positioning)
- Monitor market and industry for consolidations, regulatory changes and owner‑operator trends to deepen expertise and identify opportunities
- Generate actionable deliverables: prioritized target lists, decision-maker maps, owner profiles and summaries to stakeholders
- Manage vendor/third‑party partnerships (e.g., databases, licensing) and research tools as required
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, market research, or related field
- 3+ years of experience in market intelligence, competitive research, business development research, corporate development sourcing, or investment research
- Demonstrated ability to build target pipelines, gather owner information, perform primary/secondary research and deliver actionable insights
- Strong business acumen: ability to understand a company’s business model, metrics, owner incentives, and market dynamics
- Excellent analytical, data‑synthesis and presentation skills. Ability to distill complex data into clear insights for stakeholders
- Demonstrated leadership and project management expertise. Experience managing a small team or leading cross‑functional collaboration preferred
- Strong proficiency with research databases, CRM/target‑tracking tools, MS Excel, LinkedIn / contact‑research tool
Compensation
Competitive compensation consisting of base salary and an annual performance bonus
