Research Manager at MMR Research Worldwide

Description

• Are you a researcher looking for an exciting next step in your career? Do you enjoy working on high profile global accounts within the FMCG industry?
• We are looking for energetic, self-motivated and passionate individuals to join our South African team at Research Manager level to be based in our Durban (Umhlanga) office. These roles will be working for the UK Teams as remote resource.

About MMR…

• MMR is an independent, global consumer and sensory research agency specialising in food, drink, personal and household care research. We are industry leaders, guiding best in class innovation for our clients – partnering with over 50% of the top 100 global food and drink brands.
• Our team of over 420 highly engaged, multi-disciplined employees are primarily dynamic research professionals, sensory experts and data scientists. We’re a diverse bunch, with backgrounds in R&D, insight, marketing, sensory science, data sciences and psychology. We also boast a true global reach with offices in South Africa, UK, US, China, Singapore, Mumbai, Thailand, Columbia and Brazil
• We are a “people first” company that prides itself on collaboration, honesty and mutual trust. A company who obtained some fantastic feedback for company engagement and team spirit in a recent employee study with 80% of employees stating they’re happy and proud to work for MMR.
• And one more thing, we work with 50% of the world’s food and drink brands so the chances are the last time you went to the supermarket, you bought something that we’ve influenced on its way to the shelves.

About our opportunities...

• As a Senior Research Executive / Research Manager, you will be tasked with running market research projects, involving client liaison and project management from preparing proposals around a specific research design through to final debrief presentations.

Responsibilities include:

• Helping to design research that delivers against clients business needs
• Supporting the team to grow and develop client accounts
• Managing and overseeing projects (though you will be supported by a project management resource)
• Analysing and interrogating data (both quantitatively and qualitatively) to unearth key insights
• Creating insightful, story-led presentations and reporting videos created with our video production company Ideal Insights
• Ensuring that we have delighted clients!
• The work covers a range of ad-hoc projects, typically involving quantitative and qualitative research, and both traditional and online fieldwork primarily in Europe but also internationally. With MMR’s focus on developing new and better research methods and sophisticated analysis techniques, the role offers the opportunity to gain experience of several novel and exciting approaches to conducting research and interpreting data.

Requirements

• Previous experience within an ad-hoc agency environment essential
• Quantitative experience essential and exposure to qualitative beneficial

Bachelors degree

• Ability to tell a story from the data is essential and turn into an engaging client report / presentation
• Self-starter
• Strong organisational & time management skills required
• Strong communication skills & the ability to work effectively as a team essential
• Experience working in a regional (ideally Africa) role an advantage
• Depth of experience in research project management with sensory science experience an advantage
• Willingness to travel to observe and conduct fieldwork (post-Covid of course!)

Benefits

• MMR offers an open, dynamic, varied and non-hierarchical environment, where bespoke MMR Academy training is offered at every level. We also offer exciting Secondment opportunities at our other global locations, as well as a selection of fantastic employee benefits.
• MMR delivers a class leading set of marketing science tools and approaches, many of which are proprietary to MMR. We are endorsed by our global client base for our agility, technical expertise and willingness to adapt research solutions to directly focus on specific client challenges. We’ve built a reputation of providing innovative statistical analysis and techniques, coupled with optimal research design consultancy, that successfully delivers against our clients’ specific business objectives.

MMR is an Equal Opportunity Employer