Senior Quantitative Project Manager

Company Description

About M3 Inc:

Founded in 2000, with start-up investment capital from Sony, M3’s mission is to make use of the internet to increase, as much as possible, the number of people who can live longer and healthier lives, and to reduce, as much as possible, the amount of unnecessary medical costs. Key achievements of M3 Inc. include:

• Named in Fortune’s 2020 ‘Future 50’ list, ahead of Facebook and Amazon
• Ranked in Forbes’ 2020 Global 2000 list of the world’s largest public companies
• M3 is the only company incorporated after the year 2000 to be included in the Nikkei 225 Index
• Listed in Forbes’ ‘Asia’s 200 Best Over a Billion’ in 2019
• In 2020 M3 founded the ‘M3: Stop COVID-19 Fund’ and pledged one billion yen to support COVID-19 related initiatives

M3’s legacy lies in the power of trusted physician platforms. Around the world, M3 organisations leverage these highly engaged digital communities to deliver medical education, job placement, and market research, to improve global patient outcomes.

M3 Global Research, part of M3 Inc., provides the most comprehensive and highest quality market research recruitment and support services available to the industry with relationships reaching respondents in more than 70 countries worldwide.

M3 Global Research maintains ISO 26362 and ISO 27001 certifications with the highest quality data collection and project management capabilities that cover the spectrum of quantitative and qualitative techniques utilized today.

M3 services incorporate all of the most advanced statistical and attitudinal methodologies allowing clients to provide world-class offerings and support services to their end-client customers throughout multiple industry sectors.

Job Description

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

The mission of the Project Manager is to be a communication and relationship liaison between M3, our clients, and other teams involved in the project’s completion. The Project Manager is responsible for managing all aspects of the project, ensuring excellent client service and delivering projects on time and within budget.

This is the ideal role for someone who has experience in international market research, with focus on healthcare, fieldwork, and collaboration with all teams involved in the project.

• Manage international market research projects through entire project lifecycle, ensuring client satisfaction and project financial goals are at core of decision making, keeping ownership of all aspects of the project, including:
• Project specifications review, project set up, resource planning, fieldwork and timelines planning
• Coordination of project kickoff meetings to ensure all involved parties understand project specifications, client needs, timelines, and responsibilities
• Programming, translations, overlays and testing, ensuring quality standards and timelines are met
• Project launch execution and analysis, with detailed feedback to clients with a solution approach
• Fieldwork management, delivering timely and high quality client updates, proactively managing and monitoring project recruitment to ensure smooth and timely delivery via maximisation of internal sample, custom recruitment and partner onboarding, controlling project budget and achieving project financial goals
• Ensure market research participants have a positive project experience by following sampling practices, and ensuring incentive approvals and project queries are handled in timely manner
• Provide to client the agreed deliverables within expected timelines and quality
• Meet billing deadlines and goals, ensuring high adherence to internal processes
• Comply with M3’s operating procedures, and ensure all practices and systems follow the ISO Accreditation and M3 policies
• Manage and leverage relationships with vendors to facilitate accurate and timely deliverables, communications, and issue resolution.
• Partner with Sales and Client Service teams to address issues and/or make recommendations to improve performance on market research studies.
• Support the execution client service improvement plans on allocated accounts, ensuring collaboration with sales and other members of the team, and providing a consistent and solution-oriented approach across each touch point of the client journey

Qualifications

Education and Training Required:

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience

Minimum Experience:

Must have 2 years’ experience in market research project management, preferably in healthcare

Knowledge, Skill, Ability:

• Be a self-motivated individual with exceptional time management, organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Able to work well meet deadlines and under pressure.
• Have exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Have strong Microsoft Office skills including Excel, Outlook, and Word.
• have well-developed analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Have the ability to work autonomously and in a team environment to successfully meet departmental objectives.
• Have the ability to manage multiple online research projects accurately and on-time in a fast-paced environment where moving deadlines and other changes often occur in real time.

Additional Information

Employee Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave
• Participation in a company bonus scheme linked to personal and company performance
• Group Life Cover 4x salary
• Pension 4%/4% employee/employer contributions
• Vitality after probation
• Staff discount scheme
• Discounted gym membership