Research Analyst (UAE Nationals Only)

Job Description

To provide a full research service to the business by identifying, prioritising, designing and managing research projects by commissioning and supervising the fieldwork, conducting analysis and reporting the findings. By having a full understanding of how the business operates, propose solutions and recommendations that the business can directly implement via presentations of qualitative/timely data to the Senior Management with regard to business opportunities and performance thus ensuring a high quality service to various departments within the Emirates Group. Manage external suppliers to ensure the best deal and put quality control processes in place in order to ensure top quality services. Job Outline: - By having a full understanding of the business? units needs, be the central point of contact for all their research needs. Identify, prioritise and develop research projects to support the end user department, link findings from various sources to enrich the data and present actionable recommendations to all levels within the business unit. Develop the annual research budget and plan. Set, monitor and develop key performance indicators. - Manage, prioritise and implement research requirements of the business units to ensure that pressing research issues are investigated and analysed and that findings and proposed recommendations are presented to Senior Management for their immediate consideration and action. Manage the costs on each project to ensure they are within the annual budget. Monitor and check the distribution and scheduling of surveys to ensure that respondents are not targeted more than once on the same day. - Manage and develop projects for allocated departments across the Emirates Group and provide effective and valuable feedback in a timely and accurate manner to the Senior Management with an aim of highlighting issues and proposing solutions. Fully explore the data to provide new insights by customer segment, to aid the business in providing more focused and targeted services to meet consumer needs. - Ensure that third party suppliers deliver projects on time and in a cost-effective manner and develop existing contacts to establish new research projects. - Create and monitor a comprehensive database on customer and competitor profile - Co-ordinate with external research consultants and provide information which will be utilised to enhance surveys conducted and summarise/distribute results in order to provide Senior Management with feedback that needs to be reviewed and implemented in a timely and accurate manner - Manage outside suppliers who will be used for running studies and surveys to ensure timely and accurate delivery of services - Play an active role in the preparation of the annual budget and tracking expenditure on an on-going basis. - Liaise and co-ordinate with local educational institutions to bringing together part-time man-power and train them in conducting face-to-face interviews and delegate administration tasks (i.e. packing, sorting, data capture etc.) and be responsible for the supervision of these part-time staff. - The job holder along with Manager Market Research, will develop and maintain Research links with established airline bodies aircraft manufacturers, airlines to ensure maximum benefit in furthering our corporate research capabilities. Represent the Group in activities within the research and travel industries (Market Research Society, ESOMAR, IATA) to ensure we remain at the forefront of developments in these fields. Liaise with external research consultants and gain information in order to keep abreast with new research techniques and software applications that will benefit the Emirates Group

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