Join the research team

CROP is currently looking to fill two permanent positions. If either position fits your professional profile and aspirations, please email your resume to dbourdages@crop.ca

1. Project Director, Marketing Research

• Your role: Professional management of multiple market research projects (customer experience, brand image, product testing, customer segmentation, opinion polls etc.) for a variety of clients from extremely diverse industries
• This is your opportunity to prove your organizational skills and put into practice all the market research expertise you have acquired as you will be required to conduct a variety of projects with great efficiency and in conformity with the highest industry standards
• You will also get the opportunity to develop your customer-relationship and consulting skills as part of the quantitative AND qualitative research projects you will be working on

Task description:

• Plan and effectively manage the day-to-day operations of the specific projects you are entrusted with
• Follow-up with clients, partners and suppliers
• Build sampling and weighting plans
• Draft quantitative questionnaires and discussion guides
• Moderate focus groups and in-depth one-on-one interviews
• Supervise the work and provide coaching to the project coordinators who will assist you
• Produce efficient and insightful quantitative and qualitative research reports and presentations
• Assure quality control of research data and of all documents issued to clients
• Analyze data and discuss findings and recommendations to the client with the vice presidents
• Give presentations of results to the clients
• Follow up on various client requests
• Help draft proposal of services
• Ensure respect of project budgets and timelines

Requirements

• Minimum 8 years' experience in marketing research (quant & qual.), in an equivalent position, supplier side
• Master's degree in Marketing or Market Research (or related field)
• Bilingualism (English-French) required, written and spoken
• Knowledge of the main Office Suite programs (namely PowerPoint, Excel and Word)
• Meticulous, creative, ingenious, organized and available, with a strong interest in research and a solid sense of marketing strategy

2. Project Coordinator, Marketing Research

• Your role: assist will all stages of a variety of market research projects for clients from extremely diverse industries (from project launch and data analysis to the production of efficient and insightful reports)
• This is your opportunity to develop your organizational skills and project management expertise via day-to-day coordination with in-house support teams and external suppliers
• Also the opportunity to hone your analytical skills, learn more about research methodologies, and develop greater strategic thinking
• You'll be coached by market research experts who have decades of consulting experience

Task description:

• Coordinate the various phases of the specific projects you are entrusted with
• Contribute to the development and formulation of survey questions, and program questionnaires on our automated interview software
• Manage the input of a diverse set of partners and suppliers as well as various in-house support services
• Plan and put in statistical data requests to our IT department
• Conduct data quality control
• Produce quantitative and qualitative research reports (PowerPoint) under the guidance of a project manager or vice president
• Share and present findings with immediate supervisor

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years' professional experience in marketing research
• Master's degree in a relevant field (marketing, market research, marketing analytics, business administration, sociology, etc.)
• Bilingualism (English-French) required, written and spoken
• Knowledge of the main Office Suite programs (namely PowerPoint, Excel and Word)
• Meticulous, creative, ingenious, organized and available, with strong interest and capabilities in market research