- Job Title: Consumer Insights Manager
- Job Type: Regular Full-Time, Hourly
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, marketing, product management, sales, or related field required
- 5-8 years of experience in market research, marketing, trade marketing, project management, sales or related field
Location
- 85 Challenger Rd., Ridgefield Park, NJ, USA
- Hybrid: Monday to Thursdays on-site and Fridays remote
Benefits
- Medical Insurance (Health, Dental & Vision)
- 401(k) with Company Match
- Paid Time Off
- H1B/Green Card Sponsorship for qualified employee
- Hands-on experience at global industry leader Samsung
- Opportunities for career advancement
Top Skills
- Market research
- analytical
- communication
Overall Responsibilities:
Partners with relevant business teams to provide an understanding of Consumers usage and behaviors across their Consumer Experience Journey for assigned business.
- Work in partnership with the Cross Category Senior Director in managing research projects related to Corporate Marketing priorities.
- He/she gathers and analyzes consumer data and supports cross functional teams with their strategies and tactics. Develop trends reports on Corporate Marketing key initiatives.
- Analyze CRM dashboards to improve the quality of SEA CRM programs
Specific Responsibilities include:
- Leverage Secondary/Syndicated research and Conduct Primary research to actionable insights.
- Independently manage most research, with support and guidance from manager on more complex studies:
- Secondary: Gather and analyze secondary data sources to address business issues
- Primary: conduct research to understand and predict consumer behavior, e.g.,
- Qualitative: focus groups, in-home ethnographies, 1-1 interviews, etc.
- Quantitative: brand health research. concept tests, usage & attitude studies, post purchase, etc.
- Manage full scope of Research Projects including:
- Deeply understand business issues and specific questions to address them. Develop comprehensive research brief, that includes detailed learning areas and action standards, with stakeholder buy-in
- Determine and recommend best research methodology to address business questions
- Identify best vendor through appropriate RfP process (multi-vendor proposal review)
- Help negotiate best price with vendor(s), and manage internal finance process approvals
- Manage research vendor from research design (including sample, questionnaire, discussion guide), field work, analysis, reporting and presentation delivery; ensuring data accuracy throughout study
- Analyze and interpret data in Excel and create crisp, insightful PowerPoint charts
- Deliver strong learning, in story-like presentation format that addresses all research objectives and includes actionable recommendations within needed timelines.
SUCCESS REQUIREMENTS
- Strong Business Acumen to appropriately probe and fully understand business issues to tackle and provide meaningful, impactful recommendations
- Ability to confidently engage different levels and multi-functional stakeholders (up to VP level)
Research and Analytical Capabilities
- Comprehensive, up to date research and analytical techniques and methodologies (notably Primary research, quantitative and qualitative). Syndicated research (e.g., Nielsen, NPD) experience a plus
- Superior Consumer focused Insights and research experience; e-comm experience is a plus
- Ability to effectively manage projects under very little supervision to achieve team goals and complete work assignments within established time frames
Vendor / Team Management
- Evaluate via RFP best vendor for each project. Manage vendor to ensure clear goals, research capabilities and learning delivery within timeline and budget for high ROI.
Communication & Technical skills
- Excellent interpersonal communication, engagement and influencing skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey learning and actions to take
- Strong proficiency in development of PowerPoint charts and full decks. Strong Excel skills to review, calculate and analyze data. Proficiency in Tableau visualization a plus.
Personal Attitude, Collaborations
- High confidence, proactivity and positive “go-getter” attitude
- Strong bias for action, sense of urgency and results orientation
- Ability to work calmly and productively in high time pressure situations
- Ability to cultivate strong collaborative working relationships and contacts within CMI work group, across other company functions and with external organizations
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, marketing, product management, sales, or related field.
- 5-8 years experience in market research, marketing, trade marketing, product management, sales or related field - analyzing consumer data and providing insights that drive business, including research methods and statistics. Mix of Client and/or agency side experience.
- Electronics / Mobile Industry research experience very strongly preferred; otherwise must have consumer packaged goods (CPG) research experience.
Preferred Requirements
- Master’s degree in business administration, marketing, product management, sales, or related field preferred
- Capable of running own research using DIY tools.
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