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JOB TITLE: RESEARCH PROJECT MANAGER

LOCATION IS FLEXIBLE ON EAST COAST OR CENTRAL USA - OPTION TO WORK FULLY REMOTE

Kantar Consulting - Retail, Sales & Shopper

KANTAR IS THE WORLD'S LEADING DATA, INSIGHTS AND CONSULTING COMPANY. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies. Kantar's 30,000 people based in more than 100 countries help the world's leading organizations succeed and grow. Nobody knows people better than Kantar. We provide insight and inspiration to help our clients, our people and society to create and flourish in an extraordinary world.

OUR CONSULTING COLLEAGUES are growth experts. They are specialists in brand and marketing, retail and sales, ecommerce and organizational excellence. The combination of industry intelligence, data and advanced marketing technology results in solutions that switch on real growth. Kantar's Retail, Sales & Shopper Practice helps leading retailers and brand manufacturers transform data and insights into growth strategies. We provide specialist insight, proprietary research, and data analytics to deliver actionable solutions. Join us and you'll be part of a world leading research, data and insights provider.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for executing research projects for manufacturer and retail clients. In this role, you will be responsible for project excellence from the point of project sale through final data delivery; acting as the point person between all operational and sales teams to ensure efficient and successful project execution for our clients.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Research Project Manager, you will:

• STUDY STRATEGY: Support selling consultants with study and analysis design to maximize the study impact and efficiency.

• EXECUTE RESEARCH: Support Retail Consulting and Advisory Delivery team members in necessary aspects of research execution. Contributions include but are not limited to supporting study design, overseeing fieldwork, timelines, expense and vendor management.

• QA PROJECTS: With supervision and coaching, you will be responsible for playing an integral role in overall project quality by the continuous monitoring of sample/data while providing QA support for surveys and data processing.

• COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY: Utilize effective communication skills in-person, over the phone and via email with internal and external clients. Develop an approach/system for communicating key project considerations (i.e., recruitment concerns, technical issues) with team members. Ensure project timelines & deliverables are met and key client questions are answered.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage project timelines, quality, and expenses
• Monitor project process including costs vs. budget, tracking any overages and impact
• Collaborate with Consultants and Advisory Delivery Research leads to create surveys and banner/tab specs
• Coordinate QA of da
• Manage sample process
• Communicate with vendors and stakeholders to set expectations for design, fieldwork and delivery to meet final data availability dates for clients
• Coach analysts new to research on best practices in data handling and reporting
• Communicate project specifications to reflect stakeholder requests throughout project design and process
• Manage project launch, status, and problem-solving calls with vendors and internal teams
• Communicate project status to internal team regularly, proactively identifying any threats to project timeline or budget.Summarize causes, potential options and ways to avoid in future studies.
• Complete all necessary project forms
• Ensure that goals and required timing of research are met, minimizing scope variances
• Ensure all relevant project materials are available to team members and archived
• Evaluate and provide input on potential process improvements and ways of working

SUCCESS PROFILE

• The ideal candidate will have 2-3+ years of experience managing market research projects

• Detail-oriented with strong quantitative skills and analytical abilities

• Proficient user of Microsoft Office applications, especially Excel, Teams, and Outlook ability to master other business tools e.g., SPSS, SAS, Survey Reporter

• Experience working in databases, to QA data that has been uploaded

• Logical thought process and ability to effectively communicate information verbally and in writing

• Ability to work independently and prioritize work effectively

• Well organized with ability to foresee project requirements

• Able to build collaborative working relationships with cross-functional stakeholders including analysts, product managers, operations, data processing, etc

• Highly organized with ability to manage multiple priorities and deadline pressures

• Excellent verbal and written communication with internal/external clients using logical reasoning and problem-solving skills

• Impeccable attention to detail, organized, and with a drive for accuracy and timeliness

• Excellent verbal and written communication with internal/external clients using logical reasoning and problem-solving skills

At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver. We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that's out of the ordinary and join us. We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and wellbeing is taken into consideration. We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients. Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status or any other legally protected characteristics.

LOCATION

New York, Work from HomeUnited States of America

KANTAR REWARDS STATEMENT

At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitiveand alsoto support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that's out of the ordinary and join us.

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health andwell beingis taken into consideration.

We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

Kantar is the world's leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar's 30,000 people help the world's leading organisations succeed and grow.

Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We help clients understand people and inspire growth. We have a complete, unique and rounded understanding of people around the world: how they think, feel and act, globally and locally in over 90 markets. We don’t just help clients understand what’s happened, we tell them why and how they can shape the future.