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Our insights colleagues are experts in human understanding. With expertise covering brand, innovation, creative, media, commerce and customer experience, they help clients define what brands should stand for, how to disrupt and renew their offer, how to connect with audiences and how to win with consumers and customers.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES

The Associate Research Director will be responsible for revenue growth on a yearly basis; building strong client relationships, making a proven difference to the client’s business, and contributing to overall client satisfaction.
The role includes being accountable for overseeing the entire research process, deliverables, client engagement and consultancy. As part of the team, responsibilities include business development, people management and financial management along with business strategy implementation

Role Description

• Build strong relationships with clients and ensures that the team delivers responsibilities sufficiently to retain clients and maintain existing business. Actively seeks new business opportunities and plays an active role in developing them to achieve team budget.
• Implement account management plans for key clients, identify opportunities to deepen insights for clients, and deliver effective advice and consultancy.
• Lead accounts to oversee the team deliver all account deliverables while working to agreed budgets, and course-corrects where required. Ensure account efficiency and profitability across all accounts.
• Contribute to roll outs of regional / global launches, actively looking for opportunity to introduce them to clients and to add value to accounts.
• Coaching and developing team members, participating in recruitment and training, and facilitating career development across the team while balancing with the needs of the business.

Role Requirements

• Educated to a degree level – ideally majoring in Communications, Marketing or Marketing Research, Cultural Studies or Psychology.
• 8 to 10 years relevant quantitative research experience with direct involvement in selling, conducting, analysis and reporting
• Possess brand and advertising industry knowledge, project management skills with excellent problem-solving abilities.
• Experienced in new business development, running a financial profit centre and managing a team.
• Demonstrates adaptability, agility, displays high level of resilience as well as demonstrating strong business acumen.

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Role Description

• Build strong relationships with clients and ensures that the team delivers responsibilities sufficiently to retain clients and maintain existing business. Actively seeks new business opportunities and plays an active role in developing them to achieve team budget.
• Implement account management plans for key clients, identify opportunities to deepen insights for clients, and deliver effective advice and consultancy.
• Lead accounts to oversee the team deliver all account deliverables while working to agreed budgets, and course-corrects where required. Ensure account efficiency and profitability across all accounts.
• Contribute to roll outs of regional / global launches, actively looking for opportunity to introduce them to clients and to add value to accounts.
• Coaching and developing team members, participating in recruitment and training, and facilitating career development across the team while balancing with the needs of the business

Role Requirements

• Educated to a degree level – ideally majoring in Communications, Marketing or Marketing Research, Cultural Studies or Psychology.
• 8 to 10 years relevant quantitative research experience with direct involvement in selling, conducting, analysis and reporting
• Possess brand and advertising industry knowledge, project management skills with excellent problem-solving abilities.
• Experienced in new business development, running a financial profit centre and managing a team.
• Demonstrates adaptability, agility, displays high level of resilience as well as demonstrating strong business acumen