Market Research Specialist - Automotive

Job description

Our client, a leading global consultancy who are partnering with one one of the worlds largest technology companies, are currently hiring for a Market Research Specialist to improve the freshness and accuracy of all it's 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 word 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 govt./highway construction/other agencies, when there are
• scheduled maintenance/repair
• Identifying edge cases that might get missed.
• Similarly, identifying gaps in algorithms.
• Providing inputs to prioritise issues more proactively, and with local knowledge.
• Support proactive outreach with govt. and transit authorities to understand upcoming changes, 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, Traffics/ 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 organisational skills.
• Strong analytical skills, excellent attention to detail and problem-solving skills
• Fluent English & German language required.

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)
.