Director, Research Job Description
Director, research
provides guidance to Alexion Global Supply Chain, Clinical, Finance and other departments within Alexion on trade compliance issues and questions.
Director, Research Duties & Responsibilities
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Engage with members of the press to share house views on the real estate market
Maintain issues and enhancements trackers for production systems including Strata, Nielsen Arianna, comScore MediaMetrix, Rhiza, Allant ZRD, Zoniac, TAP
Serving as a consultant and advisor to senior IT leadership on advanced technologies (esp
Recommending and incorporating technology within long-term business plans
Interfacing with users and staff to evaluate the possible implementation of the new technology in the enterprise, consistent with the goal of improving existing systems and technologies and in meeting the needs of the business
Provides management functions including recruitment, motivation, and reten
Ensures Research Interacts with Chambers of Commerce, Economic Development, Planning and Zoning, and other local governmental entitied
Manage the production and distribution of analytical area and timely market synopses to clients
Direct programs of market research (surveys, focus groups, in-depth interviews, ) to assess and improve the client experience, measure brand performance and identify strategic and tactical opportunities
Project management of complex, multi-party initiatives
Director, Research Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Director, Research
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: FEMA, CRA, MBA, BLS, OMB, RAA, PMP, US, CIPP, CFA
Education for Director, Research
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Employers hiring for the director, research job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Management, Project Management, Communication, Government, Social Sciences, Writing, Marketing, Social Science, Supervision, Statistics
Skills for Director, Research
Desired skills for director, research include:
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Trade finance and global markets
Clinical development
Clinical operations
Industry best practices in order to provide guidance
Pertinent regulations
Training and input to business partners on compliance issues
Business and management principles
Desired experience for director, research includes:
8+ years experience in consumer market research for a major CPG or brand preferred
Experience in film, digital entertainment and social research at plus
Must have extensive experience in both primary and secondary market research with a solid understanding of volume forecasting and statistics
Requires 5+ years market research experience, with a minimum of 3-years in ad sales research at a cable or broadcast network or ad agency
Research experience in Mexico
Understanding of Mexican American ad sales process and needs
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Director, Research Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a director, research. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for director, research
- Continuously identify new research tools, methods and best practices
- Present fact-based recommendations that instill confidence and buy in
- Communicate to senior leadership about cyber threats and trends effective countermeasures
- Serves as the primary point of contact and facilitate connectivity between the various national and international sites, and the scientific advisory board, serve on the EC, chair other committees, and be the main point of contact between the BELIEVE Collaboratory and the NIH Collaboratory Program Staff and the other Martin Delaney Collaboratories
- Coordinates the convening of the Believe Committees and meetings – including the annual meeting, the Scientific Advisory Commmittee, Oversight Committee and Community Advisory Board
- Works with the MITM Fiscal Manager to oversee the allocation and expenditures of the Believe Collaboratory budget of $5.7M annually including sub contracts
- Supervises Management and Operations staff, including the Research Center Manager,Center Specialist, and graduate student staff
- Manage project budget and timelines monitoring the impact of project outcomes
- Take on people management responsibility for 6 staff and 2 to 3 direct reports
- To optimise work processes in order to improve project gross margin, quality of deliverables and turnaround times to develop a solid business understanding and enabling effective strategy development/execution
Qualifications for director, research
- Must be able to understand and maintain confidentiality of materials
- Experience of people meter measurement systems
- Experience of digital measurement desirable
- Proficiency with word, excel and statistical analysis software (ratings and syndicated studies) required
- Bachelor Degree in Finance, Business Administration, Economics, Statistics, Real Estate or related disciplines
- A minimum of 8 years of real estate related experience and financial analysis is a pre-requisite
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of director, research. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for director, research
- Drive digital revenue growth by overseeing the Digital Ad Sales Research team efforts, including KPI reporting, audience profiling, competitive positioning, RFP responses, sales collateral and ad effectiveness research
- Oversee relationship with syndicated digital data providers including Nielsen Online & ComScore, ensuring that A+E is properly represented in the marketplace, monitoring competitive rankings, and collaborating with vendors as their products evolve
- Manage A+E participation in the testing of new audience measurement products, including the coordination of code implementation, meta data, reporting, analysis, vendor feedback, and data harmonization
- Educate internal stakeholders about trends in the Digital space (consumer insights, shifts in online advertising, the evolution of measurement, ), delivering strategic recommendations that fuel data-driven decision making, and a forward-thinking digital investment strategy
- Leverage Social Media listening, monitoring and optimization tools to support sales, marketing, PR, acquisition, engagement and retention objectives
- Identify and supervise custom research opportunities that embrace new data sets to demonstrate the value of A+E inventory across emerging brands and platforms
- Formulate new research methods and analyses that respond to a dynamic market environment
- Collaborate on and oversee the preparation of market studies
- Make recommendations on development feasibility, pricing, unit mix
- Provide advice as needed to the development team in all aspects of consulting
Qualifications for director, research
- Omniture implementation experience
- Ability to multitask and problem solve under deadlines
- Preparation of absorption for office and industrial space on a quarterly ba
- Sophisticated project management skills
- 3-5 years’ experience managing complex multi-party projects
- Experience directly supervising staff
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Our growing company is hiring for a director, research. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for director, research
- Declaration
- Lead the local Ops & RS team
- Has a deep understanding of available data sets (box office, consumer title tracking, social media analytics, media spending, historical sales/rental data, ) and how they can be used for different analyses in the service of answering questions and solving problems
- Monitor and determine appropriate levels of departmental overtime
- Develop short and long-range operating objectives, organizational structure, and staffing requirements
- Develop and recommend departmental budget
- Organize day to day research activities
- Build a deep understanding of our Travel and Retail clients and their needs to deliver exceptional client service and assist them in achieving their digital marketing, product development and advertising objectives
- Leverage prior experience and industry expertise to directly manage a small team of analysts advise and inform other members of the team and the broader client insights organization
- Perform QA of policy reviews, logic revisions, and research requests performed by others to ensure accuracy
Qualifications for director, research
- Security certifications CISSP, GIAC, GCIA, SANS
- Reading/Writing skills of non-English languages such as Russian, Chinese, Farsi, Urdu
- Self-educating through MOOCs or other methods to extend your knowledge of statistics, NLP, Machine Learning, Cloud Development and Deployment, Semantic Technologies
- The ideal candidate will be very knowledgeable in the area of English grammar and its characteristics which can be exploited by software for advanced content enhancement and extraction
- Possesses a Ph.D
- Significant expertise in conducting all aspects of research projects, including serving as principal investigator or equivalent, as evidenced through previous research / funded research
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Our growing company is hiring for a director, research. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for director, research
- Lead a team of data researchers, including freelance project research staff
- Design web-based questionnaires
- Manage confidential bank client lists
- Maintain contact with survey respondents
- Provide regular status updates to bank contacts
- Provide regular status updates to the data team
- Develop/manage the Microsoft office based office solutions
- Liaise with Data team heads on final results
- Provide clearly presented final results ready for the publishing team
- Provide ad hoc and custom data queries and data reports as required
Qualifications for director, research
- Experience in using regulatory data bases
- Minimum required education (with a background in medicine, science or relevant discipline preferred) is a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- Proficient in computer applications such as MS Word, Excel, Publisher, PowerPoint
- Working with multinational clients, the incumbent will have sound marketing knowledge and have a thorough understanding of market research and will be tasked with the professional management of a number of teams
- Responsible for contributing team targets and objectives and for ensuring the office meets its financial targets while delivering a high quality of work managing the capacity of the office and ensuring that teams are correctly resourced
- Must have knowledge of/expertise/training in neuropsychological assessment
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of director, research. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for director, research
- Lead strategic road mapping efforts by linking potential customer requirements with R&D and product development initiatives
- Coordinate the schedules of consultants to meet project plans
- Supervise the coordination of relationships with affiliated research sites and coordinate meetings of the project committee
- Monitor overall expenses for the study and assist in the development of annual budgets
- Reviews marketing plans to ensure and understand drivers of sales volume across all lines of business
- Leads the execution of research projects and provides reports/summaries of findings
- Interprets research data, analyzes market and product trends, customer insights, and strategy, and makes recommendations to business based on findings
- Identifies and stays current on new trends and seeks new ways to utilize research to support Call Center Sales initiatives
- Develops and implements key accounting policies and procedures and provides collaborative support of new business initiatives such as Mergers and Acquisitions
- Leads payroll administration functions including processing, reporting and related staffing analytics
Qualifications for director, research
- 10 plus years of investment experience
- BA (MBA or CFA would be preferred )
- Understanding of Global Macro investment strategies, risk and portfolios
- A current professional network of industry contacts
- High motivation and the ability to lead a team successfully within a team environment
- Weekly travel to New York City from Stamford CT