Account Director - Market Research - FMCG/Retail/Healthcare

About the job

Account Director/Group Account Director (Market Research)

Experience- 8+ years

Our client is a global data, insights, and consulting company based in London, England. It was founded in 1992, and has approximately 30,000 employees in over 90 countries working in various research disciplines, including brand guidance, brand strategy, social media monitoring, advertising effectiveness, consumer and shopper behaviour, and public opinion

Job Details:

Role & Mission statement : Advise our clients on the brand performance and deliver creative solutions with Quantitative Research Methodologies. Account Director is part of the Client Service team.

Key outcome statement:

- Achieving growth and managing business financials

- Identifying new business initiatives and leveraging skills across units

- Building and nurturing strong client relationships

- Creating an environment that fosters new work / innovations

- Driving thought leadership in teams

- Developing research capability among team members

- Developing processes and process improvements for greater time and cost efficiencies

- Guiding the research executives working on a project to understand exactly what is required of them and training them if necessary. Contribution to the overall training of executives in quantitative research techniques.

- Client management and presentation of company credentials, proposals and research results

- Report writing and presentation creation including client recommendations, with the ability to work independently

- Negotiation of acceptable costs and contract agreements with suppliers.

- Creation of Questionnaires, Drafting proposals, expertise in Concept test, Brand Tracks.

- Overall management of the research team and suppliers.

- Budget control and time spent monitoring job cost summaries regularly.

Capabilities Statement:

- The ideal candidate will be a self-starter who is client focused and comes with proven expertise in MR or Marketing and Branding (with regular interaction and understanding of MR) with a track record of leveraging your knowledge for own business or client benefit.

- Demonstrated ability to get best out of teams, investing in their development and striking the right balance between tasks and relationships

- Process orientation and ability to manage processes for cost and time efficiencies

- Track record of networking skills which you have leveraged for yourself and your organization

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

- Understanding and leveraging synergies across organizational units for better client delivery.

- The position requires an intelligent graduate with 8 - 11years experience of quantitative research, primarily consumer focused; specific experience of the FMCG, retail and healthcare sectors would be an advantage.