QUALITATIVE Insights Research Executive - SA

OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE:

You will play a critical role in supporting the qualitative team to deliver exceptional insights to clients and by doing so you will gain invaluable experience working across a range of industries and supporting diverse business needs. Your role will be working closely with the team across all project elements such as (but not limited to); proposal and pitch preparation DG & recruitment questionnaire compilation conducting data analysis analysing information to recommend strategic initiatives and report compilation. Your efforts will help some of the world s most interesting and exciting organisations realise growth opportunities.

This is a South African based regional client servicing role in a workfromhome capacity.

Skills :

KEY PERFORMANCE AREA S:

Reporting to the Associate Director Qualitative your key roles and responsibilities would include:

RESEARCH DESIGN:

Working with researchers across the MDI Africa network you will help design research proposals that provide answers to client s business questions. This includes participation in brainstorming sessions to establish methodology creation of proposal templates and development of the actual proposal.

Appraising client briefs to understand clients needs and business objectives

Demonstrate critical thinking and research knowledge to help the research team produce effective proposals.

Collaborate with clients to suggest and implement best practice research designs and output

Input into recruitment questionnaire design and development mobile qualitative discussion guide and mobile engagement task preparation.

Checking recruitment questionnaires before deployment to ensure an optimal consumer experience and no mistakes present.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT:

Project manage and oversee quantitative projects from start to finish to ensure the research team can deliver against agreed objectives and within required budgets and timelines.

Schedule and participate in regular project planning and review meetings.

Highlighting any project management concerns with your manager to ensure seamless client service.

Ability to work outside of defined parameters and be able to adapt to situations as they change.

Prepare simple project costings for your managers review including sourcing costs from 3rd party suppliers.

Building strong relationships with suppliers to ensure the best project outcomes for MDI.

MODERATION & FW:

Liaise with FW suppliers in setting up research projects and ensuring the correct consumer mix is achieved for all qualitative projects.

Deploying qualitative discussion tasks on our mobile platforms

Ability to moderate consumer groups indepth interviews lead ethnographies and conduct general FW across a variety of demographic groups.

REPORTING:

Working together with the qual team assisting with all elements of reporting such as analysis of qualitative data charting findings of the study and assisting with report commentary and summary.

Providing insight recommendations that align to the clients research and business objectives.

Commitment to producing insightful highquality and timely deliverables to our clients.

Participating in research presentations to clients.

CLIENT ENGAGEMENT:

Proactively sell the benefits of MDI to potential clients.

Day to day interaction & relationship building with existing clients.

Proactive & responsive communication with all clients.

Consistent & timely delivery.

TEAMWORK & COLLABORATION:

Effective and efficient team member who demonstrates a strong spirit of collaboration openness towards people of different cultures and a proactive attitude to build relationships internally and externally with teams and markets beyond one s own.

A hunger to learn with a passion to grow