Research Manager – Edelman Data & Intelligence
Mumbai
Data and Intelligence – Data & Technology /
Full-Time /
Hybrid
We are a global, multidisciplinary research, analytics, and data consultancy part of Edelman, the world’s leading PR agency. We use data and intelligence to help businesses and organizations build trusting relationships with people: making communications more authentic, engagement more exciting and connections more meaningful.
We are growing rapidly. Our success comes from exceptional global talent, great teamwork, and individual effort. We reward both collaboration and entrepreneurship. We embrace the latest technologies to get insights that make a real difference for our clients. Hong Kong is a key growth market for us.
To support our APAC business we are setting up a center of excellence (CoE) based on the model of insourcing projects to a central, professional hub with the objective of building an optimal team of researchers that can support the DxI shared resources model.
We are looking for a Research Executive who will play a key role in the measurement and analysis of media coverage on our client companies across the media spectrum – broadcast, print, online, and social media. This insight helps our clients, many of whom are Fortune 500 corporations, to develop better communications and business strategies.
This is a manager-level position that enhances your experience in market research, media analysis techniques, and a variety of public relations measurement methodologies. It is a deadline-driven environment where quick and independent learners thrive.
Requirements:
· 4-6 years of relevant professional experience.
· Bachelor’s degree in liberal arts, communications, marketing, business, psychology, economics, or related area of study.
· Familiarity with secondary, qualitative, and quantitative research and analysis.
· Demonstrated ability to use online tools to perform online desk research.
· Excellent reading, writing, editing, and data interpretation skills.
· Excellent spoken and written English is a must.
· Great interpersonal communication skills; articulates ideas clearly and professionally, both in person, in writing, and over the phone.
· Strong time management skills and ability to work under pressure; able to consistently meet deadlines on reports and projects.
· Detail oriented; able to ensure the quality of report content by keeping numerous project details organized and by self-editing.
· Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PP, Outlook).
· In addition, the following skillsets would be highly advantageous:
o Experience in social media measurement and/or exposure to using third party social media data.
o Advanced analytics (e.g. regression and other multivariate approaches).
Responsibilities:
· Assist in delivering quality services to clients on primary and secondary research projects.
· Manage multiple projects for multiple clients.
· Manage day-to-day communications, and account operations, including but not limited to, resource planning, quality assurance, managing and potentially producing ad hoc requests.
· Primary research efforts will include:
o Manage project coordination – independently or with support, depending on the size and complexity of projects.
o Support research design and data collection.
o Guide and manage the production of research reports.
· Secondary research efforts will include:
o Manage media monitoring projects on an ad-hoc and continuous basis.
o On a tight timeline, search a combination of free and subscription-based databases to identify and consolidate media content that is relevant to specific clients and projects
o Prioritize and organize media content into monitoring reports using both third-party and proprietary software
o Analyze news and social media coverage for metrics, such as tone (favorability), influencers, spokespeople, messages communicated, outlet type, and topic
o Assist project teams with general desk research
o Assist with the setup and configuration of our proprietary online media monitoring tool for clients (training provided)
If this sounds like you, and you think we sound like a great team that you would like to join to help you take your career to a whole new level, please get in touch! As a multinational company, we offer highly competitive remuneration, benefits, and an excellent work environment.
Edelman Data & Intelligence (DXI) is a global, multidisciplinary research, analytics and data consultancy with a distinctly human mission.
We use data and intelligence to help businesses and organizations build trusting relationships with people: making communications more authentic, engagement more exciting and connections more meaningful.
DXI brings together and integrates the necessary people-based PR, communications, social, research and exogenous data, as well as the technology infrastructure to create, collect, store and manage first-party data and identity resolution. DXI is comprised of over 350 research specialists, business scientists, data engineers, behavioral and machine-learning experts, and data strategy consultants based in 15 markets around the world.
To learn more, visit: https://www.edelmandxi.com
