Associate Director (Quantitative) — Taipei

Division/department: Taiwan Research

Job description

Division Management:

• Responsible for playing a key role within the division / group with a broader scope in staff management, marketing activities, process improvement and as methodology champion
• Manage a research team (recruitment, induction, motivation, training and performance review), ensuring all respective activities are carried out timely and effectively
• Provide all-round project skills in design, supervision and delivery of client projects to ensure meaningful and value-added findings are generated from projects
• Direct all procedures in the department to ensure consistent, accurate and efficient applications
• Identify staff strengths and weaknesses and assist in implementing training programs to help full utilization of staff potentials

Sales Development:

• Initiate and deliver sales presentations in a highly convincing manner to achieve impact
• Design report and write conclusions with strategic and actionable recommendations
• Act as consultant to ensure the strategic impact of the recommended actions are highlighted to clients
• Design and deliver client presentations in a highly confident and professional manner
• Represent division in group-sponsored activities (including seminars) / committees to ensure information is channeled back to the division
• Maintain close relationships with clients to enhance possibility of winning repeated business
• Actively explore business opportunities with new, lapsed and existing clients
• Recommend, design and implement relevant programs to ensure the team members be developed for future challenges

Requirements

• University degree
• Minimum 9+ years research experience
• Substantial and proven knowledge of research methodologies and Synovate solutions / techniques
• Conversant with industry and marketing issues
• Ideally, knowledgeable in a particular industry

Contact(s) for this vacancy

Becca Lu — HR Manager
recruitment.taiwan@synovate.com

Last day of publishing is October 31, 2008

Project Manager (Qualitative) — Taipei

Division/department: Taiwan Research

Job description

• Assist in managing the research team (recruitment, induction, motivation, training and performance review) to ensure the respective activities are carried out timely and effectively
• Develop high quality discussion guide and moderation for different qualitative methodologies
• Design insightful reports and write conclusions with actionable recommendations independently for simple or standard projects, or with guidance team leader or director for complex studies
• Design and deliver client presentations in a highly confident & professional manner
• Maintain close relationships with clients to enhance trust level and to explore further business opportunities

Requirements

• University degree
• Minimum 6-8 years research experience
• Reliable and able to work to deadlines
• Able to work under pressure and manage own and others' time
• Able to delegate and check output delivered
• Able to engender team spirit
• Committed to company philosophy, goals and visions
• Well presented and confident

Contact(s) for this vacancy

Becca Lu — HR Manager
recruitment.taiwan@synovate.com

Last day of publishing is October 31, 2008