Junior Research Executive

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa BMi Research Full time

BMi Research is looking for a customer experience junior research executive (JRE) who must be a logical thinker, pay the utmost attention to detail and be deadline driven.

Reporting to the consumer behaviour business insights (CBBI) general manager and working closely with the CBBI account manager/senior researcher, the role is to ensure the highest standard of data is delivered for reporting.


Overall, the JRE will need to:
Assist in building and developing the consumer behaviour and business insights division
Be responsible for supporting the consumer research manager (and team) with day-to-day administrative functions
Be an all-rounder with qualitative and quantitative research interests, specialising in mystery shopping research.

Research functions:

Draft initial research samples and questionnaires
Preparation of fieldwork material e.g. schedules, recruitment questionnaires
Organising the project including coordinating all suppliers
Attend client meetings and fieldwork as and when required
Deliver Excel data reports.
Ability to create dashboards and pivot tables
Charting of quantitative findings and basic quantitative analysis
Prioritising and checking of individually captured surveys by project which includes date/time/logic/spelling/grammar to ensure conformity to client brief
Data capturing.

Field management:

Recruiting mystery shopper fieldworkers and maintaining a database for same
Fieldwork planning and execution of research projects
Stimulus and briefing document preparation, as well as briefing field
Manage team of mystery shoppers to ensure deadlines are met
Ensure a smooth flow of data capture by the field so that sufficient time is allowed for quality checking and query resolving to meet specified deadlines
Quality checking of all videos for video mystery shopping and readying these for editing
Sending queries to field for addressing issues, ensuring these are timeously and efficiently resolved
Anticipate and manage bottlenecks and project delivery delays
Record quality issues by field contractor to support input into field training and managing quality standards.

General administrative functions:

Maintaining contacts and supplier databases
Document control
Diary management
Stationery and printing
Preparing research schedules and maps
Desk research
Formatting/typing of Word and PowerPoint reports (in keeping with BMi Research templates)
Checking of all accompanying documents such as receipts, visuals, quotes and recordings.

Skills, qualifications and education requirements:

Matric certificate or equivalent (English, mathematics higher grade pass)
Tertiary education an advantage
1-2 years' experience in a market research environment
MS Outlook, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint essential

Required attributes:

Passionate about market research
Analytical (accurate, attention to detail)
Confident communication skills (articulate)
High level of personal accountability (professional)
Independent and creative thinking
Promote team spirit and group success
Strong problem-solving skills (self-directed)
Strong project management skills (energetic, proactive, punctual)
Experience in a coordination or team support role
Efficient time management.
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