Research Manger

We are shaping for the future!

We are building up a team of excellence for GfK CE Egypt, we are now recruiting ambitious Researchers with Entrepreneurship, quality, and trust oriented mentality.

You will enjoy a career full of challenges and achievements, with a boundless opportunity for growth, managed by consistent performance management system, all within an environment that promotes values of smartness, customer focus and trust.

Please apply immediately only if you have a challenge taking personality, with a passion for making positive change and becoming a leader in turning consumers experience into smart business decisions.

Apply for this vacancy if you find your skills matching the requirements.

Purpose of the Role

• Consults clients regarding their questions in the respective product
• Manages projects from proposal stage to final delivery (With focus on client facing activities and cooperating with GPS/Ops Departments for ops related activities), creating impactful reports and presentations.

Managerial Responsibility:

• Counseling, technical instructing and monitoring of the employees involved in the project, ensures that expectations are clearly defined and communicated
• Project cost controlling

Research Design & Proposal Development:

• Proposal development including proposal writing (independent for standardized studies, under supervision in more complex projects), prepares specs for a proposal, put together project pricing and timeline, cost estimation, case studies, desk research
• Drafts a concept for study design, design and write questionnaires (desk research on topics/client’s business, draft questionnaires, questionnaire revisions, works with Marketing Science, Weighting
• Sampling on special aspects of questionnaire development as needed, preparing a code plan (by using the instructions of global products) - smaller projects under minimal supervision, in more complex projects according the instructions of manager

Project Execution:

• Project management for a portfolio of projects, also more complex projects , Manage multiple projects and internal operations teams through all phase of implementation (study design, data collection, tabulation, quality assurance, analysis, etc.) - for international projects: cooperating with GPS which is managing all operations activities/ local projects: local Ops department
• Delivers the contracts on high quality and on delivery costs according to calculated costs;
• Informs KAM on status and issues
• Manages junior project staff/external partners like freelancers

Analysis & Reporting:

• Writing client research reports, creating impactful reports with detailed and meaningful insights using FBC methods, help to write headlines/executive summary
• Directs and trains junior staff / external partners like freelancers in creating meaningful presentations
• Presenting results to mid-level management at clients, supporting sales presentation
• Analyzes data and use a variety of tools to run cross-tabs and interrogate the data for meaningful results

Client Management:

• Regular interaction with junior and mid-level client management (presentations, phone calls, meetings, e-mail)