Market Research Manager Clientside

Government initiative working in financial markets seeks to deliver market research that supports the implementation of ongoing strategy. The role holder will build and maintain relationships with teams across the organisation and deliver tailored market research activity that aligns to their strategic goals.  

You will build and maintain strong relationships with allocated internal customers, absorb and understand the needs of your internal customers and develop and deploy market research activity (either ongoing or ad hoc) to create actionable insight which can be used to assess/support/evaluate planned activity. Building the profile of research and acting as an internal source of expertise, your focus will be to raise the profile of the customer

 You will both proactively scope, plan, produce and evaluate research within for your allocated internal customers and respond to requests for research or information from your customers. Initially developing and managing the implementation of the research plan you will also manage the market research process for each of your projects ensuring appropriate methodology is used and clear insights and recommendations are made..  

The role also includes co-managing the research budget and supplier management. Manage the briefing of research suppliers for your projects and address work and cost negotiations as required.  You will line manager 1 person.

You will need: Experience working with, and managing relationships with research agencies, experience of presenting to all levels, knowledge and experience of a wide range of current and emerging (market) research techniques (both qualitative and quantitative), ability to conduct data analysis using specialist statistical tools such as SPSS, knowledge of statistics techniques (basic and advanced), good planning & organisational skills, the ability to work with suppliers and clients, good communication skills.