Posted on: 02 March 2017
ID 536241

Group Manager Market Research

VACANCY

MANAGER:  GROUP MARKET RESEARCH

JOHANNESBURG

BANKING INDUSTRY

Overview

Our client is sourcing for a professional and experienced Group Market Research Manager.  If you are this awesome person please share your profile with us for review

Your work environment will be within a dynamic banking environment which offers new challenges in an ever-changing and complex financial services space

Personal Skills:

  • Extensive research
  • Problem Solving
  • Team Work
  • Market Intelligence to new territories
  • Critical thinking
  • Strong values
  • Development and working with data
  • Information intelligence

Job Purpose

  • To provide data intelligence and insight to enable better decision making by The Client stakeholders
    •  
  • Key Deliverables
  • Deliver value adding and informed insights and intelligence through effective collaboration with stakeholders, applying best practice market research and data intelligence techniques
  • Proactively investigate opportunities for business growth and improvement based on informed data intelligence
  • Conduct robust analysis, interpretation and synthesis of various sources of data and information using innovative research methodologies and techniques
  • Develop, manage and deliver multiple primary research projects, by applying overall research and project management principles and leveraging vendor relationships
  • Monitor and deliver intelligence regarding market and competitor activity by researching and reviewing primary, secondary research, passive data sources (e.g. social media)
  • Build and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders by providing expert knowledge and engaging with stakeholders around research and market intelligence
  • Apply problem solving techniques and critical thinking when approaching business and research problems, in order to derive the greatest value, and identify opportunities that go beyond the obvious.

Formal Qualification

  • Essential:Com/B Bus Sc (preferably post graduate level).
    • Completed business related degree in marketing, business sciences or related discipline, e.g. B
  • Preferred:
    • Post Graduate Diploma / Degree in Marketing Management.
  • Experience LevelMinimum 2 years’ experience in a research environment
  • Ideally 3 to 5 years Financial Services experience
  • Minimum 5 years’ experience in a strategic marketing management role

Exposure

  • Ability to understand business context quickly
  • Sound understanding of business terms and definitions
  • Ability to identify and manage risk
  • Ability to challenge the status quo with a view to improving the environment or peoples understanding
  • Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
  • Influencing stakeholders to obtain buy-in for concepts and ideas, and working with a group to
  • brainstorm ways of improving a product or situation and to identify alternative solutions to a problem
  • Ability to communicate complex information orally and written
  • Ability to manage multiple projects
  • Ability to apply principles of project management
  • Analyzing situations or data that requires an in depth evaluation of multiple factors
  • Drafting reports and writing research proposals
  • Experience analyzing and interpreting quantitative and qualitative data
  • Marketing Strategy and Planning
  • Ability to identifying trends
  • Quality checking accuracy of reports and records
  • Experience conducting gap analysis
  • Preparing and delivering presentations
  • Providing professional advice/opinion

Using different approaches in new work situations

Technical /Professional Knowledge

  • Microsoft Office and relevant software and systems knowledge (Strong Ms Excel skills)
  • Business writing
  • Relevant regulatory knowledge
  • Business Acumen
  • Banking knowledge and procedures
  • Research methodology
  • Principles of financial management
  • Principles of project management
  • Business and Marketing principles
  • Communication strategies
  • Data analysis: experience using data analysis software e.g. SPSS; SAS; ESPRI; Qualtrics; etc
  • Behavioral Competencies
  • Continuous Learning
  • Customer Focus
  • Work Standards
  • Building Strategic Working Relationships
  • Planning and Organizing
  • Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills

Recruitment Process:

  • Communication will only be with shortlisted candidates
  • CV: word format including skills matrix
  • Copies: ID, payslip and minimum requirements certs
  • Consultant: jino.swart@isilumko.co.za
Occupation:
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Full-time


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