Care Manager, RN – PEDS
Centene Corporation
Senior Research Manager
Ipsos North America
full-time
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Location: California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $85,000 - $100,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Manage research projects for leading companies, uncovering and communicating key insights and actionable strategies
- Work with project teams to determine research approach and collaborate with internal resources (IIS, DP, Coding, GMU)
- Act as direct day-to-day client contact when applicable and build client knowledge
- Own end-to-end execution and problem-solving for multiple projects across all life cycle phases
- Partner on questionnaire and sampling design, questionnaire development, and project timelines
- Monitor project budgets, communicate overages, and suggest cost-saving opportunities
- Provide training, mentorship, and delegation to junior Analysts and Interns
- Design sample plans, questionnaires, tab & banner plans, and analytic plans; set up and proof report shells and specs
- Forecast updates based on project needs and outcomes; request internal/contractor support as needed
- Respond diplomatically to operational issues and escalate when necessary
Requirements
- 5+ years of marketing research experience with a focus on project management
- Strong Word, Excel, PowerPoint skills
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Outstanding attention to detail, accuracy, and thoroughness
- Ability to manage multiple projects and tasks
- Ability to positively interact with internal support teams
- Clear, concise written communication skills
- Ability to easily understand and adapt to in-house operational forms, process, and software
- Proven expertise with standard research inputs (e.g., questionnaire design, coding specs & tab plans, sample plan & quotas)
- Proven expertise with standard research deliverable outputs (e.g., data tables, toplines, report decks, crosstabulation tools)
- Process management and improvement
- Proven ability to pinpoint issues (e.g., quality control, timeline slippage, scope) and manage conflicting priorities
