What is the role?

We are looking for organised and motivated individuals to join our Market Research team.  The key purpose of the role is to manage the delivery of multiple market research (MR) projects to ensure the design, day-to-day project management, analysis, and reporting meet the research objectives and client needs.  To develop and maintain client relationships leading to repeat business and contribute to proposal development.

As Research Manager/Senior Research Manager you will:

Manage the delivery of multiple primary MR projects.

• Have a minimum of 3 years of previous experience in a pharmaceutical market research agency
• Demonstrate experience and knowledge of a broad range of MR methodologies and techniques, including more advanced or complex approaches
• Demonstrate knowledge of the therapy area on each project to apply to research materials and findings, and to enable credible discussion with clients. Start to develop expertise within specific therapy areas
• Demonstrate knowledge of the pharma industry by putting research findings into the broader context of the client’s business situation
• Lead internal and participates in external project meetings. Acts as the primary point of contact for clients in relation to the day-to-day project management.  Participates in client discussions related to objectives, design/ methodology, and research findings
• Be responsible for end-to-end project management, ensuring all project components and tasks are allocated and completed according to timelines.

Support business/account management and gain repeat business from pharma clients:

• Contribute to the preparation of proposals in response to RFPs to meet objectives with the input and guidance of a director

• Develop and maintain relationships with established clients to gain repeat business

 Deliver effective line management:

• Follow the defined HR processes and deliver the defined management conversations, including regular one-to-ones and appraisals
• Motivate individuals to achieve the set company cornerstones, standards, and behaviours
• Enable line reports development through identifying and supporting personal development
• Identifies opportunities to manage workload and support wellbeing.

Organisational accountability:

• Compliance: Promote team member’s adherence to company standards
• Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Take a lead role in driving forward company initiatives
• Culture: Ensure company values are understood and upheld. Act as a role model of the culture that helps others to identify and align their behaviours

Core competencies:

• Organisation and time management: Manages multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, uses knowledge and experience to create the forward plan and timelines.
• Proactivity and initiative: Delivers the role and steps autonomously, is quick to think ahead, and anticipates problems and plans for contingencies across the entire project or process.
• Quality focus (includes excellence, accuracy, and attention to detail): Has a keen eye for detail and ensures high quality in all work produced, working to the best of their ability in the time available, and encouraging the same from other team members.
• Personal impact and presentation skills: Maintains professionalism at all times when dealing with others (both internally and externally) and presents self and company in a positive, competent manner. Actively contributes to internal and external meetings, displays strong personal impact, and engages the team/audience.
• Performance and development: Sets the performance standards for everyone in their team. Is aligned to goals and required behaviours. Continuously monitors and appraises performance informally and formally.
• Client focus: Develops relationships with internal and external clients through reliability and consistency of response and uses personal brand effectively.
• Future focus: Ability to pre-empt teams’ needs as they arise. Identifies and highlights process improvement and best practice recommendations. Shares opportunities to flex, innovate, and adapt to changing market and customer needs.    

Who are we?

Beyond Blue Insight Ltd are a pharmaceutical market research company. We work with some of the biggest pharma companies to help them determine which new potentially life-saving or life-improving treatments to prioritise into development. We gather information from medical experts, patients, and carers, and deliver insights to pharma companies to inform their strategic decision-making.

One of the best things about working at Beyond Blue, which regularly comes out in our employee surveys, is that we are all genuinely willing to work together as a team and support each other whenever needed. We prioritise learning and development, have committees to champion our DE&I, wellbeing, charity, and sustainability efforts, and hold regular social get-togethers.

Perks

• Flexible working – around core hours of 10am – 4pm (1pm on Fridays)
• 10% discretionary bonus scheme
• 10% pension from day 1 (5% Employee and 5% Employer matched contribution)
• Private healthcare from day 1
• Employee Assistance Program
• Celebration Day off – an extra day off to celebrate your birthday
• Quarterly Wellbeing sessions

Recruitment process

• 1st stage: Informal discussion to check mutual fit
• 2nd stage: Formal interview with completion of a pre-task. Followed by an informal discussion to meet some of the team members for the candidate to run a Q&A and get a feel for the company & culture

If this sounds like the role for you, we would love to hear from you.  If you want to know what we do with your personal data then please visit our privacy policy.

How to apply: Please send your CV and covering email to Kelly Shipley k.shipley@beyondblueinsight.com