Senior Research Manager
MMR Research Worldwide LTD, China
Job Description
Are you a researcher looking for an exciting next step in your career within market research? Do you enjoy working on high profile global accounts within the FMCG industry?
About MMR
MMR is an independent, global consumer and sensory research agency specialising in food, drink, personal and household care research. We are industry leaders, guiding best in class innovation for our clients partnering with over 50% of the top 100 global food and drink brands.
Our team of over 420 highly engaged, multi-disciplined employees are primarily dynamic research professionals, sensory experts and data scientists. We’re a diverse bunch, with backgrounds in Ramp;D, insight, marketing, sensory science, data sciences and psychology. We also boast a true global reach with offices in Shanghai, UK US, Singapore, Mumbai, Thailand, South Africa, Columbia and Brazil
We are a people first company that prides itself on collaboration, honesty and mutual trust. A company who obtained some fantastic feedback for company engagement and team spirit in a recent employee study with 80% of employees stating they’re happy and proud to work for MMR.
And one more thing, we work with 50% of the world’s food and drink brands so the chances are the last time you went to the supermarket, you bought something that we’ve influenced on its way to the shelves.
About our opportunity
We are looking for an energetic, self-motivated and passionate individual to join our team in Shanghai as a Senior Research Manager. This role is very wide ranging, involving client liaison and project management responsibilities at all stages of the project cycle from research design, through to final debrief presentations. The work covers a wide range of ad-hoc consumer projects, typically involving quantitative research including organising and attending fieldwork both in China and internationally.
With MMR’s focus on developing new and better research methods and sophisticated analysis techniques, the role offers the opportunity to gain experience of several novel and exciting approaches to conducting research and interpreting data.
As a Senior Research Manager, we would like you to take ownership in growing key global accounts. You would be focused on team delivery and bringing your own enthusiasm and energy to the table to drive new business.
Key responsibilities in this role could include
- Helping with the overall research design and proposal writing.
- Overseeing project execution and adding value to reports, debriefs and presentations via data interpretation and commercial awareness skills.
- Managing and developing existing Client relationships.
- Getting involved in exciting new business development opportunities and discussions.
- Supporting and managing junior members in the team with their professional development to become a superb researcher!
Requirements
You know you’re right for this role if
- You have previous experience working within an ad-hoc market research agency
- Ideally you would have broad experience working within Consumer research
- You have strong Quantitative research experience (exposure to qualitative research is beneficial)
- You are fluent in both Mandarin and English (written and spoken)
What would make you really stand out as a candidate
- You are enthusiastic with a can-do attitude
- You are naturally curious and inquisitive
- You build relationships easily and come across as open and approachable
- You are a proactive individual and forward thinking
- You excel working within a team environment but can also work independently
Benefits
Our benefits:
- We can offer you an exciting, dynamic and challenging working environment
- Training is offered across all job levels at MMR via our bespoke online training academy ‘MyAcademy’ and other schemes such as mentoring or secondments.
- MMR offers a competitive salary; performance is rewarded on merit at any point in the year!
- We support Hukou applications.
- These are just a few of our benefits, chat with us to find out more!
If you are interested in applying for this exciting opportunity, then please upload your CV in English and one of our recruitment team will be in contact!
MMR is an Equal Opportunities Employer