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Vacancy details
Vacancy description:
Job Code:
WR/NOT09/22990
Job Title:
Research Manager
Job Category:
Licensing & Contracts
Contract:
Permanent
Discipline:
Any Discipline
Country:
United Kingdom
Location:
Oxfordshire
Min experience:
N/A
Annual salary:
Negotiable
Apply by:
08 Jul 2008
Research Manager Job - Oxfordshire:
Job Summary
This leading independent specialist market research organisation for the scientific field pioneers in challenging existing thinking, improving research methodologies, and bringing the latest scientific and commercial know-how to our industry. They have an excellent vacancy for a Research Manager. If you're looking to demonstrate your skill and knowledge in this field, then this role is for you.
Job Title
Research Manager
Background
Due to expansion, our client is looking to recruit a Research Manager to be responsible for profitably developing business with prospective and existing clients. They have prime responsibility for handling client projects through all stages from initial briefing to report writing and/or debrief presentation, ensuring that the research design and analysis and interpretation of results fulfils clients' needs.
Key Responsibilities
- To meet any agreed objectives on commissioned revenues.
- To take research briefs from existing and prospective clients, interpret the brief and clarify their needs.
- To define, in consultation with a Project Consultant if necessary, appropriate research protocols which provide solutions to each client brief. These will draw from repertoire of techniques and may combine both qualitative and quantitative techniques.
- To write research proposals including costings as agreed with Senior Management, and sell them to clients.
- To manage project teams within the research team and effectively delegate responsibility on all relevant aspects of the project, to ensure accurate, timely and cost effective execution of the research.
- To design the questionnaire/ delegate responsibility for designing the questionnaires and ensure that they are approved by the client and internal departments.
- To draw up schedules for all aspects of each project and ensure that they are issued and agreed by all relevant personnel, notifying people immediately of any changes.
- To ensure that clients receive and understand their topline results whenever appropriate.
- To analyse quantitative and diagnostic data providing considered reporting, interpretation and recommendations, in consultation with an Associate Director/
- Director if necessary, prior to the debrief.
- To report/ debrief the results to the client, together with a Project Consultant if required (depending on client expectations, etc.)
- Actively develop additional or new business with prospective and existing clients.
- To supervise & take responsibility for the work of all members of the project team.
- To manage Research Executives, being responsible for their development & performance within the business.
- To monitor actual performance against budgeted costs on all projects, taking any necessary remedial action.
- To exercise cost controls to ensure that clients are fully invoiced promptly for all aspects of the research.
- To follow the procedures as described in the ISO Manual, to maintain a high quality of client service at every stage of the research process.
- To promote, at all times, a pleasant working environment for all staff and workers.
Qualifications and Experience
- Direct data processing experience
- Relevant life science degree
- QPS experience
- Or, Merlin & Quantum experience
Benefits
With this position comes an attractive benefits package that you associate with a world leader, including pension, healthcare, plus a salary circa ?50,000.
Key Words
Research Manager, Data Processing, Clinical Research, Clinical Trials, Medical, Clinical, CRO, Study Management, Clinical Management, Pharmaceutical, Career, Research
This vacancy will be based in Oxfordshire.
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