上海招聘

职位描述：
Overall Responsibilities:
? Build strategic, senior, advisory relationships with key APAC clients from which you can derive client and industry insights to advance NPD’s reputation, positioning and long-term growth.
? Coordinate the communication and adoption of best practices throughout the company by developing and maintaining clear Data Quality Metrics.
? Serve as the lead person accountable for data validation on all APAC survey data.
? Make recommendations for success measures and ways to track those changes. Assist in developing methodologies for new products.
? Enhance the testing and adoption of new data collection methods to strengthen the scope and accuracy of information available to NPD and our clients.
? Develop and maintain all documentation on methodologies, processes and procedures, which includes calibration, projection, editing etc., to ensure a ready reference and log of decisions made.
? Manage the analytical details of data restatement and parallel databases.
? Develop and maintain awareness of external research techniques that can be applied to NPD’s businesses. This requires networking and active involvement in industry and professional associations.
? Identify, establish and manage third party relationships for integration of external data sources.
? Maintain and enhance collaboration with other non-APAC NPD departments, including Sector Commercial teams, Retail Business Group, IT/Operations and Product Management.

Qualifications:
? 5+ years of experience within client service or consumer insights with a market research company, consulting firm, manufacturer or retailer, with a strong statistical or modeling focus.
? MA or above, with focus/degree in statistics, economics, math, data analytics, or information systems, or a related field requiring strong quantitative skills required.
? Excellent survey design and analysis skills, including (a) sampling and questionnaire design, and (b) development of survey weighting schemes.
? Deep understanding of latest approaches to reducing or eliminating bias associated with non-probability sampling and quasi-experimentation.
? Proven expertise in using advanced statistical and modeling techniques in the analysis of POS and consumer data to help drive business decisions.
? Strong knowledge of advanced quantitative methods and/or delivery of value-added solutions such as forecasting and marketing mix modeling.
? Excellent verbal and written communication skills, especially relative to translating abstract concepts to business specifics, as well as developing project proposals and deliverables.
? Very strong interpersonal skills and proven experience at building and leading cross-organizational teams, and persuading a broad range of decision makers.
? Ability to balance strategic thinking and contribution with hands-on, tactical management
? Technical skills: advanced MS office, SAS are required. SQL, programming skills (VBA, Python, or SAS), database tools (MySQL, SQLServer…etc) are a plus.
? Willingness to travel to occasionally to Europe and the US (typically 10-15%).
? Ability to multi-task and meet strict deadlines.

NPD 集团The NPD Group (www.npd.com), 创立于1967年，总部在美国，目前分支机构已经遍布欧洲，北美和亚太地区。NPD集团是全球领先的消费者和零售信息供应商，致力于消费者行为变化的追踪研究以及零售终端的销售监测。目前全球有超过2,000家制造商，零售商和服务供应商使用NPD的服务。NPD可以在发现市场机会，指导产品研发，市场，销售等方面帮助客户。目前NPD主要包含14个研究领域：餐饮服务、汽车、美容产品、商用电子产品、个人用电子产品、娱乐、时尚、食品饮料、办公自动化产品、软件、家用电器、体育用品、玩具和无线产品。

The world around us is changing. Retail is in a state of major transition, and consumers have more options than ever. As a leading provider of global information and advisory services, NPD is at the forefront of helping our clients, the world’s biggest brands and retailers understand and profit from these changes.
Since 1966, we have been helping businesses track industry trends and understand their customers in order to get the right products in the right places for the right people at the right prices. We serve more than a dozen industries including consumer electronics, entertainment, fashion, food / foodservice, toys, video games, and more.
We want to lead manufacturers and retailers on collaborating via the effective use of our information in line reviews and joint business planning.