Available Market Research Jobs

JOB TITLE	YEARS	SALARY	LOCATION
Research Director, Custom Research	5+	90-110K + b	PA - Philadelphia
Senior Consultant, Automotive	5+	70-75K	PA - King of Prussia
Director Market Research	5+	110-125K	NY - New York
New Business Development, Research Executive	7+	90-150K + commission	NY - New York
Vice President, Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals	8+	120-170K	NJ - New Providence
Senior Project Manager/Account Director, CPG	4+	70-85K + bonus	NJ - Hoboken
Director, Senior Market Research Project Management	5+	OPEN	CT - Waterbury
Vice President, Client Service	8+	OPEN	CT - Waterbury
Senior Account Executive	5+	90-110K +	CT - Stamford
Research Manager	2+	60-75k	CT - Stamford

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Position:

Growing Mid Size Market Research Supplier is looking for a Research Director to help strengthen the thought leadership in the Employee Engagement and Customer Engagement Measurement space. In this role, you will have the opportunity to: shape our thinking and solutions, improve our operations and internal processes, and mentor and manage less experienced members of staff.

• Overseeing an existing portfolio of large and mid-sized accounts.
• Will consult with clients on the design, analysis and implications of research findings.
• Manage account teams to ensure clients are receiving high quality, valuable insights from their research efforts.

• 5-10+ years experience in employee/HR research, customer engagement/satisfaction research and consulting.
• Outstanding client management skills
• An ability to thrive in a fast-paced, growing environment
• Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities
• An ability to explain/apply output from advanced statistical techniques
• A passion for employee and customer research
• The ability to become a thought-leader in the People Engagement Research space

Market Research Supplier with an International flavor is looking for a candidate in the Automotive Research Department.

• Hands on project management experience, able to work relatively or largely independently on all aspects of project management: client management, proposal writing, survey design, field coordination, analysis, report writing.
• As a member of the automotive team, you will provide quantitative and qualitative support for the Automotive vertical.

• 5+ years of experience in automotive market research (on supplier side)
• Client contacts in the US (car & truck manufacturers, distributors, suppliers)
• Focus on custom research
• Experience across broad range of qualitative and quantitative methods
• Experience as a focus group moderator, a plus
• Good understanding of car clinic research, a plus
• Good understanding of online research, a plus.
• Cross-cultural awareness

Luxury Products Firm is looking for a strong market research professional to assist in the development, execution and analysis of all qualitative and quantitative consumer research projects relating to new product formulations, concepts, advertising and consumer intelligence.

• Responsible for in-depth analysis of market research
• Will make recommendations based on the research using established principles and precedents.
• Assist in development of all questionnaires
• Assist in review of final questionnaire
• Analyze report documents and issue conclusion and recommendations
• Work with research team in developing global objectives, project briefs and test protocol
• Work with marketing teams to clearly define local research objectives and adapt survey to incorporate these local directives
• Review brief(s) with potential research vendors, solicit and review bids, and provide recommendation of vendor selection to VP
• Attend all brief meetings with research vendor and marketing teams
• Attend and report on all field pilot interviews and focus group sessions
• Meet with new qualitative and quantitative research companies, review capabilities and make recommendations on companies that would provide the best expertise
• Analyze past research reports and provide insight into consumer behavior and intelligence

• 5+ years of relevant consumer research experience
• Bachelors Degree Required
• Strong analytical ability, demonstrated strong oral and written communication skills, good interpersonal skills

High End Market Research Supplier is looking for a new business development candidate. The company will consider senior level research sales executives with a proven track record of quantitative sales.

• Must be able to identify, win and close new client opportunities in custom research with Fortune 100 companies.
• Must have Market Research Supplier background
• Must be able to handle a quota

• Quantitative research experience
• Strong base of client relationships
• Consultative sales
• Client and industry presentations

Full service research supplier is looking for a strong revenue generator to be responsible for developing and managing client relationships within the U.S. and internationally. There is an expected revenue target for the first year with anticipated revenue growth on a year-to-year basis that will be determined between the successful candidate and the head of the group. The candidate will be responsible for the creation and development of sales and marketing plans toward customer retention and growth strategies and for the execution of sales strategies and plans. The firm has a seller doer model that requires involvement in and knowledge of the product and the customer.

• Contribute to developing a business plan that would deliver a minimum established number in new sales by year-end and provide guidance to the long-term expansion of this market sector.
• Generate budgeted or in excess of budgeted revenue and profitability during year one.
• Have the ability to manage a number of research projects concurrently.
• Design and execute projects ensuring corporate standards for quality, analysis, execution, report writing and presentation.
• Take responsibility for ensuring that projects are completed on time and on budget.
• Develop client relationships at multiple levels within the clients’ organization.
• Supervises any members of a project team as necessary to achieve sales within the client organization and complete projects effectively, with proper quality standards and on time.
• State clearly and specifically what the issues are affecting the customer and develop strategies to effectively deal with these issues.
• Oversee sales service activities to ensure that the customer receives exceptional sales service as a regular way of doing business.
• Quickly gain knowledge of the customer’s business and master the complexities of their organization, and the necessities to grow revenue and profit.
• Recognize opportunities for growth and implement strategies that will enhance customer satisfaction, company market share, revenue growth and profitability.

• An undergraduate degree in a market research or business related field is necessary. An advanced degree is required.
• A minimum of 8 years of experience with a Life Sciences market research firm with other experience from a vendor to the pharmaceutical industry. A preferred candidate may have experience in a combination of settings.
• This opportunity requires substantial knowledge of at least one sub-sector of the pharmaceutical industry, expertise in market research within the industry and will have a proven track record of selling into the pharmaceutical industry.
• A proven track record in marketing research sales to the pharmaceutical industry with revenue and customer expansion responsibility.
• Must have the proven ability to develop and mentor strong relationships within the company, personally and professionally.
• Must have the ability to develop budgets and manage expenses.
• Strategic thinker, demonstrating the ability to develop business strategies to improve and grow business opportunities at the customer.
• Possess the qualities to get results with tact and diplomacy, exhibit strong sales skills, good judgment and have the tenacity needed to bring strategically determined programs to the customer organization and execute them effectively.
• A hands-on, goal-oriented individual with a high level of enthusiasm, drive and interpersonal skills.
• Effective planning skills, both short and long term, are necessary.

Analytical market research supplier with a focus on healthcare and consumer goods clients seeks a market research professional with 4+ years of market research experience to serve as the primary client contact for their Consumer Goods division. The ideal candidate will have prior Consumer Goods experience (either on the supplier or client side), some understanding of conjoint and multivariate techniques, and experience with (or strong desire for) business development responsibilities.

• Serves as the primary client contact in all phases of the project.
• Developing a keen understanding of clients’ business objectives, and being able to narrow these down to clear, meaningful and specific deliverables
• Discussing strategic marketing issues with the team and preparing innovative proposals linking back to the client’s business objectives
• Developing, expanding and managing existing client relationships
• Playing an active role in marketing the company in an effort to gain new clients
• Managing and supervising all phases of a study: design, questionnaire preparation, analysis, presentation, reporting and preparing recommendations
• Supervising the work of project managers and contributing to their development as strong team members
• Ensuring that the assigned projects are optimally carried out and deadlines are met through appropriate planning and quality control

• 4+ years of work experience in market research, marketing, brand management, project management, or account management, with a strong preference for at least two years of Consumer Goods work on the supplier or client side
• Bachelor's or Master's degree
• Experience with or interest in business development
• Enthusiastic team-player
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical thinking skills
• Demonstrated initiative to become a future leader in the company
• Knowledge of conjoint analysis, Sawtooth Software, and/or simulation models all are strong pluses
• Knowledge of Spanish (or another second language) also a plus

Strategic market research and consulting firm needs a researcher with 5+ years experience in custom research/account management.

• Respond to/support client requests on time
• Write questionnaires from scratch
• Identifying critical and relevant relationships from data
• Use of multivariate analysis tools to support data analysis
• Write complete research reports with minimal supervision
• Added Value implications as well as conclusions from data
• Develop effective presentations
• Generate repeat business from current clients
• Write full proposals and recommend research designs
• Project realization goals
• Utilization goals (staff)
• Management of direct costs
• Assist in supervision and training of junior staff
• Perform other related duties as assigned

• Bachelors Degree; related coursework in marketing research, business management, marketing, mathematics, communications, social science, economics or statistics
• At least 5 years of custom marketing research experience required

Strategic market research and consulting firm needs a researcher with 8+ years experience in custom research/account management. Will be Responsible for client service and overseeing project team.

• Manage full range of client interactions on projects
• Simultaneously manage multiple projects
• Manage resources to meet project deadlines
• Developing research design and questioning areas relevant to client needs
• Managing client interactions to produce effective questionnaires
• Synthesis of multiple data sources, such as client date, secondary market data, and survey data
• Add significant value to research findings based on creative analysis and interpretation
• Assist client in effective use of research findings
• Present results to clients
• New business proposals
• Recommending new research to existing clients
• Estimating project costs and hours
• Pricing projects
• Manage projects for profitability
• Utilization/realization/people/resource management
• Developing skills in specialized research techniques (e.g. forecasting, Cube, demographics, sampling, multivariate, etc.)
• Responsible for supervising and training junior staff in research skills

• Bachelors Degree; related coursework in marketing research, business management, marketing, mathematics, communications, social science, economics or statistics
• At least 8 years of custom marketing research experience required

Growing Online Market Research supplier is looking for a few strong market research sales professionals for their media or technology units.

• Achieve assigned quarterly and annual sales objectives.
• Be responsible for prospecting, acquiring and solidifying client relationships.
• Focus on developing and cultivating new and existing client relationships by understanding client business issues and recommending an appropriate research-enabled solution.
• Generate incremental business within defined sales territory
• Learn and fully comprehend all of The Company's products and services.
• Develop an understanding of current research processes and procedures.
• Be responsible for consulting with clients on research design, provide insightful proposals and deliver strategic sales presentations.
• Work with the Project Managers and Analytical Research Managers to execute project specifications and deliver superior quality research results to clients.

• Undergraduate and/or graduate degree in marketing, marketing research, business or related fields or relevant work experience.
• Minimum of 5 years experience in a client service capacity.
• Recent sales experience within a marketing research firm a must.
• Experience with quantitative (particularly online) research executed within a full-service, custom service model.
• Able to meet with prospective clients in-person, by phone, e-mail and Web presentation with the ability to travel.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Expertise with Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Able to meet with clients in-person, ability to travel.

Leading provider of custom and syndicated media econometrics seeks a skilled and dynamic research manager who possesses superior analytical, organizational and leadership skills.

• Manage multiple research projects simultaneously having the ability to write reports, produce and conduct presentations.
• Position requires strong media research methodological background with an understanding of media measurement data and terminology; gathering, integrating and synthesizing third-party data; and developing primary and survey research techniques.
• Ability to develop methodologies, algorithms, formulas and forecast models, as well as set database parameters for data input.
• Position will report to Vice President/Research.

• 2-5 years media research experience
• Graduate degree in media, communications, advertising/marketing or business;
• Strong writing and presentation skills required;
• Strong understanding of the media industry, company financials, measurement data and terminology;
• Excellent writing, presentation and spreadsheet skills for development of research reports, presentation slides and client deliverables
• Superior interpersonal and telephone communication skills for interaction with management, clients, industry opinion leaders and survey respondents.
• Proficiency in all Microsoft Office software including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access.