GLG Research connects clients across with all industries with data driven insights using our B2B panels built from the world’s largest and most varied source of first-hand expertise. We offer market insights by providing access to our industry-leading expert panel, as well as full-service custom market research project management and quality review based. Our team of quantitative market research specialists support all phases of a client engagement, from scoping and questionnaire design to panel selection, quality review, and data interpretation and visualization to meet our client’s objectives.
GLG’s Corporate Research business helps technology, healthcare, and industrials companies by providing them with the insights that they need to handle the critical decisions they face throughout product development, marketing, and other various market research projects. The team leverages its Survey capabilities along with the world’s largest and most varied source of first-hand expertise to deliver robust insights to inform their decisions in a timely and thorough manner.
GLG is seeking a Market Research Project Specialist to own the responsibility for leading and growing GLG’s surveys business servicing technology, telecommunication, and media clients. You will join a growing global team and will collaborate with GLG Research and Business Development professionals as well as GLG’s sophisticated client base of top corporations. You will lead or assist the end-to-end execution of survey projects from project pitching & scoping to fielding & quality control. This position requires meticulous attention to detail, the ability to prioritize and multi-task, excellent written and verbal communication skills, a keen analytic outlook, as well as, a passion for creative problem solving, client service and project management. In addition, it requires the ability and passion to lead and develop younger associates on your own team.
Specific Responsibilities Include (but are not limited to):
- Project leadership: Serve as point-person for end-to-end survey execution; ensure the broader survey team’s resources are optimally utilized for the success of your project
- Thought leadership: Serve clients’ requests on their complex, fast-turnaround learning needs
- Client leadership: Partner with clients to best understand their survey needs and our capabilities; manage expectations appropriately and suggest new panels or ways in which to reach respondents; Work with internal GLG research/sales team to identify high potential client opportunities and how our survey product could be leveraged by clients
At a minimum, you will have the following:
- Bachelors degree or higher
- 2-4 years of market research and survey experience, including experience with online survey platforms (Decipher and/or Qualtrics)
We would love if you also have most of these qualifications:
- Market research experience within one of the following industries: technology, media, telecommunications
- Experience collaborating with team-members in a high-throughput, deadline-driven, process-oriented, client-servicing environment
- Superior writing, logic and interaction skills; including oral and organizational skills
- Experience managing a product team or book of business a plus
- Experience analyzing results and/or communicating research results to stakeholders a plus
- Management consulting or investment banking experience or a demonstrated strong understanding of professional services a plus
What We Offer:
Benefits: All U.S. GLGers also have access to benefits such as:
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage effective on your first day of employment
- Flexible paid time off. No pre-determined limits on vacation time, plus 10 company holidays
- 401(k) and Roth 401(k) plans with an employer match (subject to annual limits & vesting)
- Tuition reimbursement program for eligible courses including language skills courses
- Paid parental leave, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement
- Free wellbeing support with the Calm app, Maven and EAP, and free long-term therapy & counselling assistance through Pathways
- Other work perks and benefits available based on final job location
Compensation: GLG is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual compensation is based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. Certain roles may also be eligible for incentive compensation.
About GLG / Gerson Lehrman Group
GLG is the world’s leading platform for trusted human expertise. We connect global decision-makers—from hedge fund managers and private equity partners to strategy leaders at Fortune 500s—with the specific, authoritative voices required to answer their most critical questions.
At GLG, you are an extension of our clients' core teams. You will work at the intersection of industries and global markets, navigating high-stakes challenges across the full spectrum of their strategic initiatives. Operating within the industry’s most trusted research environment, you’ll help our clients capture the nuanced perspectives that drive smarter, faster business outcomes.
We are a global team of pragmatic problem-solvers who mirror the intensity of the markets we serve. If you are driven by intellectual curiosity and a bias toward action, join us in reinventing the industry we invented.
Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. (“GLG”) is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, race, religion, color, marital status, disability, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classification protected by federal, state, or local law.
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