Research Analyst Job Vacancy at Euromonitor
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Full time
Description
Overview of the role:
Our Cape Town team is responsible for all syndicated research on South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda.
The team gets involved in many exciting activities such as client engagement, face to face research with industry players, PR including trade and international press, conference presentations and TV interview opportunities.
Each Analyst has, at any one time, various project-specific responsibilities as well as wider spheres of responsibility within the unit's global database projects. The role is a combination of directly conducting research and analysis for the finalisation of projects and later on, commissioning, controlling and editing the work of in country analysts based in other regional countries.
The successful applicant will need to be flexible, proactive and possess a strong sense of personal responsibility for the achievement of goals. The successful applicant will need to be flexible, proactive and possess a strong sense of personal responsibility for the achievement of goals. Research experience with proven skills in research, interviewing, quantitative analysis, strategic report writing and engaging with clients is required.
This position will be placed into the Home & Tech: Consumer Appliances, Consumer Electronics, Home Care, Home and Garden, Tissue and Hygiene, Toys and Games industry vertical
Key responsibilities:
- Secondary research, to gather published information;
- Primary research;
- Collating and analysing new research;
- Report writing;
- Client-facing responsibilities, which include to client queries, attending conferences, giving presentations etc.
- Commissioning of research (will develop into this role);
- Editing text and data;
- Assessing and improving overall product quality;
- Building research contacts and developing regional expertise.
Requirements
Skills/Proficiencies required:
- Critical thinking
- The ability to work independently and under pressure to tight deadlines
- The ability to work in a team
- Organisational skills in order to structure the workload in the best possible way
- Numeracy, with an ability to interpret, analyse and present statistics in an interesting way
- Good report writing skills and an excellent command of both written and spoken English
- A confident manner and strong communication skills, both oral and written
- Self-motivation
Benefits
Our values
- We act with integrity
- We are curious about the world
- We are stronger together
- We seek to empower
- We find strength in diversity
Why work for Euromonitor?
International: not only do we have a very multinational workforce in each office, but we are regularly working with teams from our 15 offices worldwide. Also, we work with a diverse and ever-growing list of international clients who are leaders in their industries.
Hardworking but sociable: our staff know how to work hard but also how to enjoy themselves! We pride ourselves on creating an appropriate work-life balance, with flexible hours.
Committed to making a difference: We think that people are looking for something worthwhile in a company beyond the workplace. Our extensive Corporate Social Responsibility Programme gives each member of staff two volunteering days a year in addition to holidays. It sees us reaching out into the local community with our mentoring, group volunteering, and fundraising initiatives as well as supporting international charities through our website sales, matching staff sponsorship fundraising, and carbon offsetting all our flights, amongst many other activities.
Benefits: we offer competitive salaries, medical aid contributions and pensions, and in many offices a Core Hours policy allowing flexible start and finish times to each day.
Opportunities to grow: The majority our managers and directors have been promoted from within and many have moved across departments as well as upwards. We pride ourselves on identifying and rewarding talent.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: Euromonitor International does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability and genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factor.
