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
