The Research Consultant will analyze market data, provide insights for decision-making, and maintain industry best practice repositories. Requires strong analytical and communication skills.
Description and Requirements
Position Summary
The Research Consultant will closely work with Marketing teams. The Research Consultant will provide comprehensive market and business insights to aid in their decision making.
The candidate will be a strong problem solver and will work independently as well as in a collaborative team environment. The candidate will be analytical, organized, process oriented, self-motivated and result driven. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are a pre-requisite for this role, and an uncompromising approach to attention to detail. The candidate must also have some professional background in insurance and / or banking, management consulting, or industry research providers.
Job Responsibilities
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2024 "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, MetLife , through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by empathy, we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services.
At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
#BI-Hybrid
Position Summary
The Research Consultant will closely work with Marketing teams. The Research Consultant will provide comprehensive market and business insights to aid in their decision making.
The candidate will be a strong problem solver and will work independently as well as in a collaborative team environment. The candidate will be analytical, organized, process oriented, self-motivated and result driven. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are a pre-requisite for this role, and an uncompromising approach to attention to detail. The candidate must also have some professional background in insurance and / or banking, management consulting, or industry research providers.
Job Responsibilities
- Work with business owner to identify and understand scope of the Newsletters, Secondary research or Competitive Research required.
- Provides comprehensive end to end market / business research and analysis.
- Requires significant analytic skills to interpret data and information to provide support for the development of recommendations.
- Requires moderately complex decision-making abilities.
- Maintain a repository of industry best practices and keep data current and up to date.
- Research and recommend best practices to drive improvement with supporting benchmarking data/analysis.
- Research and analyze global competitors (quantitative and qualitative) on quarterly basis; perform in-depth deep dive research and assessment, and develop insights on competitors' business models on annual basis
- Develop country profiles (including macro-economic data, market data, financial data and competitive intelligence on top competitors) on ad hoc basis
- Perform competitive intelligence research and summaries on competitors and market growth on ad hoc basis
- Monitor and summarize real time competitive developments of global peers
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2024 "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, MetLife , through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by empathy, we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services.
At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
#BI-Hybrid
Top Skills
Data Analysis
Market Research
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