Associate Research Director

2 weeks ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Ipsos Full time

Do you have project management experience in a social or market research agency?:


  • Do you have the drive and ambition and attention to detail needed to manage large, complex projects?:
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Are you looking to develop a career in one of the world's largest social and market research agencies?

If you answered YES to the questions above, read on and we want to hear from you


We are looking for a dynamic and commercially driven project manager who is passionate about finding efficiencies and building strong relationships with clients.

This is an opportunity to strategically shape and make your mark on some of our largest and most important accounts You will have opportunities to work closely with clients across a wide range of state and federal government organisations and NGOs.


The Role


You will be working closely with our clients, and in partnership with the research team and fieldwork team, to deliver great studies that have a tangible impact on our clients' work.


Your Key Responsibilities:

Collaborate with and manage stakeholders

  • Collaborate with researchers and senior team members from the planning stage through to the final project deliverables, ensuring projects run efficiently to specification, time and budget.
  • Be a trusted point of contact for clients, managing client expectations and ensuring we stay in scope.
  • Be the main point of contact with Operations (the fieldwork team), suppliers and stakeholders.

With support from a director, responsible for leading and delivering large scale, complex projects

  • Resource planning creating project plans, liaising with external teams and suppliers, managing risks and contingencies
  • Manage the process for delivering fieldwork techniques/sampling approaches
  • Work effectively at identifying and preempting challenges
  • Implement efficiencies and effective ways of working
  • Provide regular financial performance updates to ensure all projects are delivered within budget agreed
  • Contribute to technical and analytical reporting (survey metadata)
  • Prepare costings and provide input (based on previous project actuals and experience) on pricing decisions
  • Survey design: liaise with client on expectations and anticipated outcome; advise on appropriate method of data collection to meet research objectives
  • Questionnaire design providing input to refine questions from an operational perspective
  • Responsible for quality assurance throughout the project lifecycle, for e.g., responsible for delivering error free scripts/tables, ensure project related documentation is completed accurately and in accordance with Business Excellence standards

Other responsibilities

  • Contribute to drafting of social research proposals
  • Contribute to identifying new clients and opportunities
  • Constantly look for opportunities to improve processes, challenge status quo to create project efficiencies and cost effectiveness
  • Lead by example and be a positive role model to others
  • Ensure client satisfaction and represent Ipsos in a professional and ethical manner at all times

Skills & Experience:

  • Strong quantitative project management experience at a Project Manager or Senior Project Management level (essential)
  • Advanced ability to interpret and interrogate survey outcomes data and using that to understand job performance, identify issues and implement remedial actions. (essential)
  • Strong organisational skills demonstrate flexibility, with proven ability to juggle multiple tasks to achieve team and business requirements (essential)
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal (essential)
  • Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines (essential)
  • Experience managing project budgets to meet required profit targets (essential)
  • Able to lead effective project teams, which may be a geographically dispersed (essential)
  • Experience on social research, largescale, quantitative studies especially travel surveys is highly advantageous
  • Excellent attention to detail, including data checks and proofreading
  • Strong client management experience
  • Experience coaching and developing junior colleagues
  • Curiosity, eagerness to learn and a drive for continuous improvement
  • A cando, solutionfocused attitude
  • A project management qualification is desirable but not essential

ABOUT IPSOS


We are one of the world's largest market research companies, the only one founded and still managed primarily by researchers across 90 markets.

At Ipsos, we are passionately curious about people; we help interpret, simulate, and anticipate the needs and reactions of consumers, customers and citizens around the world.

We make our changing world easier and faster to navigate and inspire clients to make smarter decisions. The work we do helps provide a true understanding of our society, markets and people.
We are Game Changers

OUR CULTURE
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