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Associate Director
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Associate Director - FRS
The GfK Industry team has an Associate Director vacancy in their FRS (Financial Research Survey) division. The FRS team is the 'industry currency' for financial services in the UK and is a core product within GfK. This role focuses on managing major client relationships, developing a convincing point-of-view on British retail financial markets especially banking, analysing a large continuous data-set and designing and giving presentations.
Key tasks & responsibilities:
The successful applicant will need to:
• Project manage the entire market research process to meet clients requirements
• Be the first point of contact with clients and provide regular updates
• Understand and respond to clients' needs and queries by building strong on-going relationships
• Have market expertise and the ability to deliver insights and recommendations
• Lead the delivery of presentations to clients
• Work with both colleagues in the FRS team and other departments in order to fulfil clients briefs
The role is critical to the FRS team and there is a substantial opportunity for the right person to develop within the FRS team and also within the wider department.
Requirements
Experience, skills and competencies required:
The primary function of the role is to understand and interpret market trends and build strong client relationships. As such, the successful candidate will need to be PC-literate and comfortable handling large volumes of data. They will also need proven experience of creating and delivering insightful presentations to senior audiences in line with clients' needs and objectives.
Other key skills required include:
• Good communications skills and confidence to communicate complicated analysis to audiences
• Strong analytical skills and a keen interest in different ways of interrogating and analysing continuous data
• Ability to build good relationships with both internal and external client teams
• Well organised, with excellent attention to detail and willingness to work to deadlines
• A good 'team player'
• Line management experience
• Research agency experience, working on large quantitative/tracking projects is preferred
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