Market Research Specialist - Automotive

Our client, a leading global consultancy who are partnering with one of the world\’s largest technology companies, are currently hiring for a Market Research Specialist to improve the freshness and accuracy of all its Automotive data attributes.

This will be done by establishing a Locality Expert that will become knowledgeable of local conditions, policies, and country-wide changes to proactively build a pipeline of potential real-world changes.

Responsibilities

• Work with the policy team on the policy creation for these countries and provide local context as needed.
• Do meta QC and random checks to figure out quality issues.
• Create a country metric for quality and conduct in-country drives to provide feedback and data to client working groups.
• Be an owner for the country for queries from any other team as well for other basemap features.
• Curate region-specific implicit/statutory speed limits and rules.
• Research news articles, notices from government/highway construction/other agencies when there are scheduled maintenance/repair.
• Identify edge cases that might get missed.
• Identify gaps in algorithms.
• Provide inputs to prioritize issues more proactively, and with local knowledge.
• Support proactive outreach with government and transit authorities to understand upcoming changes and systematic issues with data.
• Support the partnerships and other outreach teams in local knowledge and context as needed.
• Consult on all sign types to provide local context and understanding and interpretations of various road signs.
• Assist with quality assurance and country certification processes to ensure that the highest quality level is reached and maintained in the assigned country.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in the automotive industry or urban planning, traffic/transit/signals/signages.
• Strong understanding of market research methodologies and techniques.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in local language and in English.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Strong analytical skills, excellent attention to detail, and problem-solving skills.

This is an immediate start contract role which will run for a minimum period of 12 months, with the potential to either extend or become permanent (although this cannot be guaranteed).

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