Associate - Market Research Quant

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Organization Overview
Eli Lilly has a broad portfolio of in-market and near launch brands In United States. Brand and marketing teams rely on strong market research support to understand brand performance, identify areas of new opportunities, create marketing plans and recognize when to make tactical adjustments.

This role is responsible for executing global market research projects and managing a consistent, timely market research process across global products. This includes finalizing questionnaires, developing recruiting lists, aggregating data, interpreting results, cross-referencing secondary sources, and reporting findings. The role requires a close partnership with market researchers based in different countries of Lilly Global, as well as external agencies that manage panels and collect data on our behalf.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Lilly market researchers based primarily, but not exclusively, in the US for high quality execution and on time delivery of the market research projects
• Functions as trusted advisor by actively participating in various phases of the project including kick-off, approach development, execution, insight generation and data visualizations
• Collaborates with stakeholders to present the final outputs and provide recommendations
• Attention to detail in every step of the market research process to ensure accurate, on time deliverables
• Partner with Lilly project managers to meet all necessary finance and compliance requirements for executing market research projects
• Partner with team and leadership to appropriately prioritize work
• Share learnings with peers to identify challenges and establish best practices
• Provide appropriate context for study findings based on prior market research, including secondary sources
• Finalize and program online questionnaires for quantitative studies using standard templates on Decipher tool
• Ensure that the screening criteria and recruiting lists for each project are appropriate to business goals
• Manage the data collection process with external agency partners to ensure data integrity and on time delivery

Analyze study data and visualize the findings

Basic Requirements

• Education Requirements: MBA/Post Graduation in quantitative discipline (e.g., data collection, data analysis, business consulting, information synthesis, public health, clinical)

Experience Related Requirements

• 1-2 years of market research and analytics experience with demonstrated ability to think strategically in an ambiguous environment

• Technical Skills

• Strong quantitative, research, and data analytical skills

• Knowledge of statistical packages (SPSS, Q, or similar) and databases
• Experience in writing code or queries (Python, Java, or similar)
• Experience in statistical approaches, including conjoint, MaxDiff, linear regression, correlation, factor and cluster analyses a plus
• Advanced MS-office skills (MS-Excel and MS-PowerPoint)

• Experience in data visualization and reporting tools (like Tableau, Power BI) is a plus

• Soft Skills

• Strong learning agility

• Good focus on detail, accuracy, and ability to solve problems through analytical reasoning
• Strong work ethic and personal motivation
• Good interpersonal and communication skills; strong presentation skills a plus
• Team player who is dynamic, result oriented and can work collaboratively
• Ability to think strategically in an ambiguous environment
• Ability to ask questions to ensure alignment
• Ability to translate business questions into efficient and effective research & analysis plan a plus
• Experience creating reports for business partners, including conclusions and recommendations, a plus
• Ability to operate effectively in an international matrix environment, with ability to work across time zones

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