Research Manager

Research Manager

Johannesburg, South Africa.

Package & Remuneration: Industry Leading

Verve’s Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) in Johannesburg, South Africa is expanding!

Verve is a dynamic customer insights and strategy agency that specialises in culture, communities and smart digital research. Our approach to smart research delivers commercially impactful insight to organisations across the world.

We continue to grow our revenue and client base, which is testament to our great technology-based research approaches and fantastic team of researchers. The past few years have been one of the most exciting periods for Verve as we have expanded our commercial proposition and grown our global footprint – now supporting 150+ staff remotely and across multiple global hubs in London, Manchester, Iasi, New York, Toronto, Sydney and Johannesburg.

We’re building a high performing research team to be fully integrated members of the account teams for our clients in Europe and North America, as well as working with our multi-national African client base as this grows.

The Centre of Research Excellence will bring on board local talent across all levels, and as part of this we’re looking for a Research Manager who is experienced in quantitative research methods and is looking to put in the time and effort to learn new skills and become a stronger researcher.

In turn, we’ll provide you with the opportunity to work on major global accounts including Samsung, DeBeers jewellers, H&M, John Lewis, Bacardi, Kraft Heinz, Shell and many others.

What we offer:

• The opportunity to develop your career in smart, digital research on large global accounts within an entrepreneurial, can-do team environment where everyone is empowered to be all that they can be.
• Direct involvement on projects with colleagues across Verve; excellent on the job training as well as enjoying the feeling of being a central member of each account team you work on.
• Competitive salary and bonus package aimed to attract the best in the industry and therefore, enable you to work alongside and learn from/with the best in the industry.
• A truly multi-cultural environment. We believe in building a culture that is supportive, friendly and social, and this is true in all our local teams.
• A flexible working model, with a vibrant physical hub in Rosebank at the center of it. The local team attends the hub 2 – 3 times per week.

You will have…

• 4-6 years of full-service market research experience, particularly quantitative methods, gained within an agency environment.
• Enthusiasm for delivering great research, ambition to progress in an entrepreneurial environment and a passion to build client relationships.
• The experience to take client briefs and create compelling, commercial research proposals.
• The ability to shape and refine strong insight presentations and deliver them with impact to clients.
• Strong team ethic and a desire to help young researchers reach their potential.
• Experience working in an environment with a lot of pace, responsive to ever changing client needs, iterative working and juggling multiple responsibilities at once.
• A desire to grow and get involved in wider business decisions and participate in strategic developments in the company.

We’re confident our offer stands apart from others in market, and so we’re looking for stand out candidates!

We want to hear from you if you feel inspired and motivated by the opportunity we’ve described.