China
Associate Director (Healthcare specialist) — Beijing / Shanghai
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Division/department: Research
Job description
- Achieve financial revenue targets as agreed with the Head of Office / Research Director
- Meet regularly with existing clients to manage all existing projects and relationships as well as securing new business for company
- Present the company to potential new clients as agreed with annual objectives. Business development is an important element of this position
- Meet sales targets as set out in annual objectives
- Calculate costs to ensure comprehensive and accurate cost items are included in the proposal and that the gross profit margin remains in line with stated company objectives
- Design and support others in designing high quality questionnaires to meet objectives of the studies commissioned
- Deliver and support others in delivering fieldwork briefings to ensure the interviewers are clear about the purposes and logic of the flow of the questionnaires
- Support fieldwork and data processing to ensure the study and its analysis are conducted in a logical and highly professional manner
- Conduct data analysis to provide meaningful conclusions
- Design reports and charts to present easy-to-read and meaningful linkage to conclusions
- Estimate and plan resources for the commissioned projects to ensure the projects can be completed according to schedule
- Interpret the data using SPSS, Excel or other techniques to produce accurate analysis
- Write the conclusions to clearly and accurately represent the insights of the findings and recommendations
- Assist in providing information during report presentation to clients
- Train and supervise more junior researchers to ensure they acquire basic research techniques
- Maintain the proposal and job folders are updated in line with the company MRQSA guidelines
- Ensure that monthly agreed GAP figures are met and project slippage is kept to a minimum
- Ensure that invoicing is carried out on time with copies to the client, the Synovate Healthcare office administrator and regional financial controller
- Assist senior staff members and fieldwork on ad hoc projects as assigned
- Collect outstanding debt speedily to ensure good cash flow for the company
Requirements
- University degree, preferably major in medicine, pharmacy, marketing, economics, mathematics and / or statistics
- 7 years plus prior market research / agency experience; 5 years prior healthcare market research or other healthcare agency experience
- Marketing and business knowledge of the healthcare industry in China is critical
- Good facilitating (moderating) skills in order to successfully run focus groups and in depth interviews as well as internal staff meetings as required
- Fluent Mandarin and English - spoken, written and reading
- Excellent interpersonal skills required including strong listening skill and the ability to be empathetic
- Able to work under pressure and handle multiple tasks efficiently and in an organized way
Contact(s) for this vacancy
Recruitment Manager
recruitment.shanghai@synovate.com
Last day of publishing is Saturday, 14 April 2012