Senior Research Manager-UU-Shanghai China

Ipsos is one of the world’s largest research companies and currently the only one primarily managed by researchers, ranking as a #1 full-service research organization for four consecutive years. With over 75 different data-driven solutions, and presence in 90 markets, Ipsos brings together research, implementation, methodological, and subject-matter experts from around the world, combining thematic and technical experts to deliver top-quality research and insights. Simply speaking, we help the biggest companies solve some of their biggest problems, serving more than 5000 clients across the globe by providing research, data, and insights on their target markets. And we are proud of our continuous efforts in making Ipsos the best place to work!

The Ipsos Understanding Unlimited service line uses Qualitative techniques to humanize data and bring cultural intelligence into our clients’ thinking. We bring ‘life to life’, through listening, observing and illuminating human interactions.​ Ipsos UU is the largest qualitative research company in the world. IUU has a community of 1300 specialists with diverse backgrounds and skill sets (e.g. ethnographers, community managers, semioticians) who understand people better than anyone else, simply because we have done more research for more clients in more countries than anyone else. With us, clients are fluent in 88 cultures. 

Job purpose: This position is fully responsible for client projects to ensure all activities of projects are completed and presented, by maintaining and enhancing client relationships, contributes to business development.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
 Assist in managing the research team, including team planning, team building, recruitment, motivation, training, team member career plan and performance review.
 Maintain close relationships with clients to enhance trust level and to explore further business opportunities.
 Lead project teams to provide professional and precise all-around service in project design, supervision, analysis to ensure meaningful and value-added findings are generated from projects.
 Conduct report presentation to client
 Assist the AD/D/GM to develop new business.
 Supervise the project costing to achieve competitiveness and cost effectiveness, and responsible for the payment.
 Prepare difficult proposals with some supervision; instruct the senior researchers to prepare small and medium difficult proposals.
 Design reports (guideline/format) and write conclusions with actionable recommendations; supervise and check the conclusions for small and medium projects which written by senior researchers
 Design and deliver client presentations (for proposal or report) in a highly confident & professional manner
 Supervise the questionnaire design, central briefing, table spec., code frame, data analysis (main findings) and etc.
 Communication with other teams and internal departments to discuss and resolve problems to achieve high efficiency.
Qualifications:
⚫ University degree or above
⚫ Minimum 3 to 5 years research experience in qualitative
⚫ Marketing and business knowledge an advantage
⚫ Proven knowledge and experience of research methodologies
⚫ Knowledge of a particular industry also advantageous