Northwestern Mutual
Marketing Research Manager
NM080090

Northwestern Mutual was named the World’s Most Admired life insurance company by a FORTUNE® magazine survey and knows that its home office work force is key to its strength as a company. Our employees enjoy top-rated benefits, a pleasant, stable work environment, and the opportunity to grow with the Company.

BASIC FUNCTION: This is an excellent opportunity for a seasoned Market Researcher who enjoys designing, developing and executing primary research for a broad range of marketing and business issues. This is an opportunity to join a strong market research team within a major financial services company, ranked one of the Top 5 Most Admired in the world. Functions as a market research consultant to clients throughout the company. Identifies business issues, provides management decision support, and assists with strategy development. Provides extensive support to Marketing, Brand and Advertising, Sales and Product Development functions. Manages market research projects independently, and potentially manages less experienced researchers as well. Manages all aspects of market research projects, including client consultation, market research design and proposal development, instrument design (e.g. questionnaire design), research supplier management, study implementation, data analysis, reporting and presenting meaningful insights and implications. Uses both qualitative and quantitative market research to address strategic business issues and objectives, while managing multiple projects simultaneously. Oversees market research suppliers and manages their relationships, as they assist in project responsibilities.

QUALIFICATIONS: Excellent analytical and critical thinking /reasoning skills, and ability to translate research data into actionable information and bring marketplace insight to business issues and opportunities. Master’s degree required, in a field of study such as market research, social sciences, marketing, statistics or a related field. Experienced user of SPSS or SAS is required, as well as skills in analyzing and synthesizing data, and communicating meaningful insights. A solid foundation of statistics is needed, and multivariate skills are a plus. Strong interpersonal, consulting, presentation, vendor management and business partner relationship management skills required. Ability to work in Word and PowerPoint required.

Qualified candidates should apply online at www.northwesternmutual.com. Click on Careers, then Corporate Opportunities.

As an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, we welcome and encourage diversity in our workforce. We are a Certified Development Zone employer committed to hiring targeted group members.

Tia Barrett
Sr. Corporate Staffing Coordinator
Northwestern Mutual
Human Resources
Corporate Staffing
414-665-5345
tiabarrett@northwesternmutual.com

Eli Lilly and Company, maker of pharmaceutical products like Prozac and Cialis, has an opening for a Marketing Research Associate at its headquarters in Indianapolis, IN. Reporting to a Market Research Manager, the person in this role will lead insight work for consumer television and print advertising development across all product lines within the company (e.g. focus groups, message development, concept testing, ad testing, etc.). Responsibilities will also include other ad hoc consumer research initiatives.

Candidates must possess a BS, have at least 5 years of market research experience (at least 3 years if from client side), and have experience employing research to guide consumer advertising development. Candidates with advertising account planning/research, consumer packaged goods research, and supplier side backgrounds are desired. Pharmaceutical market research experience is NOT required as this role is consumer focused.

If interested, please contact:

Denise Bell
Senior Associate
Bloom, Gross & Associates, Inc.
625 N. Michigan Avenue, Ste. 200
Chicago, IL 60611
312-654-4553 direct
312-654-4551 fax

Financial Services Organization located in San Francisco
Salary Range: 85-115K base, 10% bonus, No Relo

Senior Manager, Market Research

Group Overview:
The Research & Market Analysis group (RMA), champions the client perspective by providing client and market insights to drive growth for the company. RMA is looking for an experienced marketing research professional to join its team of researchers. In this role you will manage primary marketing research projects for the retail business and will impact strategic business and marketing decisions from brand strategy to product and service development. You will work with vendors to carry out complex research studies, develop insightful and actionable research analysis and present insights and recommendations to multiple levels within the organization including senior management.

Experience and Education:
Minimum of 7 years of experience in primary marketing research, preferably with both vendor and client side experience

Experience with both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies

Experience in financial services, specifically brokerage, preferred

College degree required; Masters degree preferred; MBA, psychology or social science field preferred

Research and Analysis Skills:
Experience with and knowledge of a variety of primary research methodologies to support projects ranging from product development, product awareness, usage and attitudes, brand and advertising, investor segmentation and profiling, and communications development and testing

Strong analytic skills, familiarity with statistical techniques, including multivariate analysis

Ability to develop insightful and actionable research reports and clear and crisp presentations, sometimes using multiple data sources

Ability to develop detailed, tactical project plans and implement them on time and within budget

Interested Candidates should contact:

Tom Hull
Partner
Mangieri/Hull Solutions
1 Riverside Road
Sandy Hook, CT 06482
(203) 270-4800 x101
thull@mhrecruiters.com
www.mhrecruiters.com
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/aa6/a60

This position will be responsible for the production of design, analysis and written interpretation of marketing research data, development of analytical procedures and statistics, and statistical programming for assigned research projects. An advanced degree in statistics is preferred. Expert knowledge of SAS/SPSS or comparable statistical analysis software and intermediate knowledge of the marketing research process are required.

Research Managers
Fenton, MO; Oakbrook Terrace, IL; Edina, MN

Global Market Research Manager

To apply online to this position, please visit our website at www.bayerjobs.com and reference job ID 4199.

Bayer Healthcare maintains a commitment to be one of the premier healthcare companies in the world. Berkeley, California is a multi-functional Bayer HealthCare site that houses the global headquarters for the Hematology/Cardiology business units, the headquarters of the global biotech product supply organization, and one of three major global R&D sites focusing on protein therapies. In fact, Berkeley is essentially the nerve center of Bayer HealthCare's biotech operations. With a focus on biopharmaceutical discovery, development, manufacturing, and commercialization, we believe our ability to advance improvements and innovations in patient care will be greatly enhanced by our fully integrated capabilities.

JOB DESCRIPTION: The major purpose of the position is to support business decisions regarding our core marketed products with market research studies, analyses, projects and derived recommendations. Provide appropriate market research analyses to identify and support new business opportunities and to strengthen marketing strategy development by providing objective business analysis supported by primary and secondary data sources. Keeping market research know how of optimum value to Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceutical, by regularly acquiring knowledge of professional practices and market research techniques and applying / disseminating this knowledge within Bayer HealthCare's global market research organization. Responsibilities include: 1) development of the agency briefing document, 2) agency selection, 3) selection of methodology and appropriate technique to determine sampling frame, 4) participation in field study, 5) evaluation of results and 4) derivation of consequences for potential or planned marketing programs. Also, guides the analysis and interpretation of univariate and multivariate statistical techniques (e.g. factor analysis, discriminate analysis, perceptual mapping, and conjoint analysis). Provides market feedback to support GBTs, strategic marketing and other central functions and teams with claims driven development and product positioning. Responsible for developing state-of-the-art forecasting models for the strategic planning process and the global part of the MIFRI /KUFRI planning process. Ensures compliance with the forecasting process and methodology, as well as the timely availability of forecast models. Acquires and maintains knowledge of professional practices and techniques and when appropriate acquires the latest advanced market research techniques to address market search problems. Identifies, verifies, and reports industry trends on a global scale, and estimates their impact to therapeutic areas, to marketed or pipeline products to validate or redirect global marketing direction and/or strategy.

REQUIREMENTS: Requires an MBA or other advanced degree in fields such as Economics, Statistics, Psychology Life Sciences, Public Health or equivalent experience.. Market research experience, international experience would be a plus. Ideal experience would be Marketing Research in the pharmaceutical industry.. The incumbent will need advanced, problem-solving skills; innovative approaches to issues; and sound judgment. Excellent communication, planning and organizational skills are necessary, along with the ability to influence managers at the highest levels within Bayer and market research suppliers/consultants. The incumbent must have the ability to lead and coordinate projects through international and interdisciplinary groups, and be able to clearly and concisely communicate, both verbally and in writing. Fluent English (written and spoken) is required, second and third language would be a plus. Requires thorough knowledge of audits, questionnaire design (to elicit qualitative and quantitative feedback without introducing bias), and data analysis including statistical know how: Sample Drawing Methodology, Descriptive Statistics, Multivariate Analyses, Regression Analyses, Factor Analyses, Cluster Analyses etc., Conjoint Analyses, CBC, ACA, HB etc., Forecasting Methodologies.

To apply online to this position, please visit our website at www.bayerjobs.com and reference job ID 4199.