Associate Research Director - Project Management
Ipsos
- Sydney, NSW
- Permanent
- 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?
- Are you looking to develop a career in one of the world's largest social and market research agencies?
- 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.
- 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 pre-empting challenges
- Use and direct others in the application of project management techniques and tools
- 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
- 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
- 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, large-scale, quantitative studies especially travel surveys is highly advantageous
- Experience with applying different quantitative data collection techniques , and experience with face-to-face methodologies desirable
- 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 can-do, solution-focused attitude
- Proficient in using all Microsoft Office applications
- A project management qualification is desirable but not essential
- We give businesses, governments and public bodies the confidence they need to take the right actions for the benefit of people and the planet, to drive long-term prosperity for all.
- Our world-leading experts produce primary data, research and insights to fuel a healthy public debate, and create value by providing a true understanding of society, markets and people.
- We foster a culture which encourages diversity of thought and opinion where individuals can truly belong and have the freedom to produce work that drives impact. We want to be as diverse as the people and issues we research and a place where everyone can be proud to Belong. Belong is Ipsos' initiative to drive our internal Diversity, Equity and Inclusion activities. It is central to our business and all that we all do, every day.