Job Description
• People Management:
o actively assist colleagues in developing their research and project management skills by providing workplace mentoring, guidance, and training to enhance their research capacities;
o Client Engagement:
o Take research briefs/terms of reference and communicate with clients regarding details of requests for quotes (RFQs) and projects from set-up up to the submission of project deliverables
o Project Management
o Report to and be accountable to IRL for the performance of research projects in obtaining operational, financial, and business development targets;
o Design and finalize, with clients and IRL's Managing Director, research proposals and research materials, including discussion;
o Work closely with the project/operation team (Fieldwork and Suppliers) and IRL management to plan and organize work for research projects to ensure effective management and coordination of projects and schedules are met;
o Liaise with IRL research clients to ensure that clients are kept up to date with project progress throughout the project's mobilization, implementation, analysis, and reporting stages;
o Analyze qualitative research results and draft and finalize analytical reports and presentations to the appropriate internal and external recipients within agreed deadlines.
o Business Development
o Be one of the principal IRL point-of-contacts for research clients, so that client service is provided to the highest standards and continuous revenue streams can be realized in the process;
o OUR COMPANY
o Our objective is to attract and retain excellent talent. We're a multicultural, equal-opportunity workplace. We need skilled, motivated people to join our team and help us succeed. We provide attractive pay and benefits.
Job Requirement
• Bachelor/Master’s Degree in any of these fields –Market Research, Communication Research, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Business Management and Economics.
• Experience of at least 5 years in conducting Quantitative research projects (Market/Commercial/Social Research/Retail Audit) from a reputable company (either research agency or client-side). Experience in Retails Audit Research is a priority
• Excellence in doing and interpreting data (Quantitative) and producing research-based insights and learnings.
• Expertise in MS Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and in other software such as SPSS, PowerBI, Canva, Photoshop, and data visualization software.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, confident with both local and international audiences (in terms of speaking, reading, and writing)
• People-oriented and loves to communicate with staff, good at leadership and management skills.
• Pro-active, forward thinker (innovative in thinking) and risk taker
• Self-aware, self-driven, confident, and good at critical thinking, open to digital processes and ways of thinking