Senior Research Analyst Job Description
Senior research analyst
provides data-analytic support to a large and complex program of health economic and outcomes research and will construct statistically advanced programs in SAS, SPSS, and other software to allow analysis of data from clinical trial and other healthcare datasets.
Senior Research Analyst Duties & Responsibilities
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Reviews SPSS data files in preparation of incoming advertising materials decks from the contracted vendors to determine whether weighting of data or re-fielding of select demographics are necessary
Build ad hoc database queries and utilize business intelligence tools to extract needed information
Build spreadsheets to appropriately summarize information
Prepare correspondence to present and explain results
Coordinate all cross-brand program ratings and performance requests centrally for the communications department (earnings prep and pulse newsletter), sales markets (MIP)
Undertake admin support for the research team including finance, POs
Equity Research Analyst is responsible for building Financial Models and valuations
Manage and contribute to the coordination and production locally of national and corporate client requests
Oversee and direct local quarterly reports and statistical production including forecasting and client requests
Attends, participates in and presents timely market information and quarterly updates a client pitches and other meetings branch sales meetings
Senior Research Analyst Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Senior Research Analyst
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CFA, MRIA, QHP, CPA, MBA, CMA, SAS, GIS, PMP, ACAMS
Education for Senior Research Analyst
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the senior research analyst job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Economics, Education, Statistics, Finance, Business, Mathematics, Marketing, Computer Science, Graduate, Social Sciences
Skills for Senior Research Analyst
Desired skills for senior research analyst include:
SAS
SPSS strongly
Principles and practices of sound research and evaluation
R
SPSS
Excel
Capital IQ
MS Office applications
Market and industry research tools
OneSource
Desired experience for senior research analyst includes:
Exposure to a survey programming tool like Qualtrics is preferred
Experience in conducting qualitative research is a plus
An understanding of retail financial analysis
Experience working with commonly used research databases, including Compustat, Worldscope
Applying Econometrics to financial markets, and statistical modeling
Experience and published research with fixed income, equity and currency markets
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Senior Research Analyst Job Description
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Our growing company is hiring for a senior research analyst. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for senior research analyst
- Promote and articulate merits of alternative indices
- Contribute to the development of a new generation of alternative and risk-based indices
- Respond to internal and external research enquiries related to index construction and development
- Develop one-off and regular research reports highlighting the application of research tools and the characteristics of specific indices
- Play an active role in the development of investment analytics and research tools
- Attends, participates in and presents timely market information and quarterly updates at branch sales meeting client pitches and other meetings
- Participate in design and development of new, enhanced product
- Interacts with all service lines in order to gain market insight
- Proactively seeks market activity information with attendance at sales meetings and daily contact with all service lines
- Review market area periodically to ensure comprehensive market knowledge and attends open houses as appropriate
Qualifications for senior research analyst
- Familiarity with blade centers, VMWare, NetApp installations
- A master's degree from an accredited college in economics, business or public administration, management science, operations research, organizational behavior, industrial psychology, statistics, sociology, political science, mathematics, public policy, computer science or a closely related field
- A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and demonstrated equivalent expertise in a responsible supervisory, administrative or research capacity in the appropriate field of specialization, with at least seven (7) years of related work experience
- Three plus (3+) years of software development experience with Java expertise strongly preferred
- Experience in business intelligence tools based on Big Data technologies (Hadoop/Pig/Hive), ETL, and data visualization is highly desirable
- Bachelor's degree required in Business, Economics, Finance or related field
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a senior research analyst. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior research analyst
- Responsible for designing and executing strategic market insights projects that generate actionable insights to help us better serve our clients, primarily in partnership with Branch Insights Research Strategists
- Guide business areas through the market insights process to determine the most efficient and effective research designs to their business problems
- Monitors project execution, including establishing and tracking project metrics and conducting project evaluation
- Identify, guide, and partner with external vendors to execute market insights projects, as needed
- Understand, analyze and recommend various research methodologies to address firm wide business issues
- Partner with marketing colleagues to improve the delivery, distribution and impact of research
- Use social media as a tool to provide compelling research insight to clients internally and externally
- Communicates with contracted research vendors to set sample specifications on outgoing tests, design and develop questionnaires, and provide norms to establish benchmarks using internal historical databases
- Works closely with the creative, digital, and services teams to review content and assure the testing (largely coming attractions and TV materials
- Incorporates information on tested materials and projected timing of results to the internal status report
Qualifications for senior research analyst
- A minimum of 4 years of conducting competitive intelligences activities is required
- Familiarity with the techniques used to gather and analyze market and competitor data is required
- Working knowledge of a foreign language is preferred
- Organised, responsible, with a focus on adhering to project timelines
- Responsible for establishing and maintaining ESG research tools
- Educate the targeted client base internal clients on ESG trends and related research and investment information
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a senior research analyst. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior research analyst
- Imputes key data to have access on our computer files and within our library archives
- Ensures purchase orders are established with contracted vendor fielding the test and working with our finance teams to assure payment is made accordingly
- Monitors consumer and critical feedback
- Confers with management on crafting brand equity studies to better measure affinity for titles with ingoing familiarity thru a prior movie, TV show, book, game, news event
- Compile statistical data specific to client or service line by translating and converting data to graphs/tables/charts
- Assist principal investigators with designing experimental and quasi-experimental analysis constituting a phase of a research project for which precedents are few
- Independently identify/modify standard procedures based on judgment concerning the general goals of a project
- Present ongoing work and findings to colleagues at conferences and public meetings
- Formally supervise and train new staff or students, including hiring, performance management, and related duties, in addition to instruction on techniques and consultation on project work
- Make substantial contributions to data acquisition and processing
Qualifications for senior research analyst
- Experience of working with specialist ESG research providers
- 5+ years of research-related experience required (preferably in real estate industry and preferably related to the hotel industry)
- Understanding of proprietary database, as to input and output of information
- Excellent understanding of the complexities and rules of the research department and correctly communicates statistics
- 5+ years of research-related experience required (preferably in real estate industry)
- MBA, Masters of Marketing Research (MMR), or similar degree
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of senior research analyst. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior research analyst
- Generate profitable investment ideas
- Analyze and prepares cash flow return on investment models for assigned companies
- Prepares written recommendations for presentation to the portfolio management teams
- Recommends sector based under or over weighted positions vis-à-vis appropriate indices
- Consult with internal team on the feasibility of operational design and timeline for moderate to complex projects, contribute ideas for research solutions to business problem
- Develop domain expertise in a select mix of business / service lines
- Execute discreet Strategic Research program components – primary research project and tools development
- Own end-to-end creation, development and analysis of large, complex, disparate data sets to identify actionable insights for senior executives
- Assist with large-scale data collection efforts through administration of multi-national panel or member facing surveys targeted to CXOs, their teams, or their business partners
- Build standardized data reports for members with simple and insightful graphics that help them understand internal gaps allow them to benchmark themselves against their peers
Qualifications for senior research analyst
- 4+ years market research experience or related analytical experience • Experience developing actionable client presentation • Ability to deliver compelling presentations to senior executives, and large groups • Advanced experience with Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel
- 8+ years of marketing research experience or 5+ years leadership and marketing research experience
- Detailed understanding of both qualitative and quantitative marketing research methodologies and sampling designs
- High level of understanding of data processing including data cleansing, coding, and tabulation
- Able to synthesize information from multiple sources to develop conclusions and recommendations
- High-level knowledge of available syndicated research
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a senior research analyst. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior research analyst
- Communicate and present analytical insights to internal stakeholders that include senior practice leaders, subject matter experts and advisors
- Collect relevant information from sales organization, market research, regulatory developments and other sources to help in the design of new products or product changes
- Talk with journalists with industry publications national newspapers, blogging opportunities
- Proactive business development with major market participants start-ups
- Develop and maintain a network of FPD industry contacts to interview, survey and exchange information with
- Quarterly report research
- In conjunction with sales professionals, evaluates tools and resources such as third party information and data providers
- Analyze data with strong attention to detail and draw conclusions based on supporting evidence
- Master’s degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering, information studies, or related field
- Under the direction of Chief Power Strategist, conduct power-related research and analysis, produce charts and tables for presentations and reports, and draft research reports
Qualifications for senior research analyst
- High-level knowledge of the financial services' industry's key competitors and their brand positions
- A Bachelor’s Degree with 3-5 years experience in digital advertising, whether at a research company,advertising agency, ad tech company or publisher
- Media Analytics/ Marketing Research or BI team experience preferred
- A logical and curious mind
- Deep understanding in human behavior
- Ability to prioritize and multi-task under tight schedule