{"id":15355,"date":"2016-08-01T10:02:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T10:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/?p=15355"},"modified":"2016-11-18T13:14:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T13:14:30","slug":"tigo-recruiting-research-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/tigo-recruiting-research-manager.html","title":{"rendered":"tiGO Recruiting Research Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millicom International Cellular (MIC) S.A., operators of Tigo, is a leading international developer and operator of cellular telephone services worldwide primarily in emerging markets operating across Latin America and Africa.<br \/>\nThe company provides affordable, widely accessible and readily available cellular telephony services to more than 30 million customers in 13 emerging markets in these continents.<br \/>\nThe success of Tigo is based on the triple &#8216;A&#8217; business model which stands for Affordability, Accessibility and Availability. This guarantees that our subscribers experience the best services at the most affordable rates throughout our 10 regions of Ghana and beyond.<br \/>\nOur vision is to be the\u00a0\u2018Most consumed Digital service\u00a0provider in urban areas\u2019.<br \/>\nOur overall vision\u00a0for Millicom\u00a0Africa is to have the 180 million people (in Sub Saharan Africa) connect to dream, work and achieve.<br \/>\nWe provide services for people who want to stay in touch, belong to communities and to be informed and entertained, enabling them to express their emotions and enhance their lives<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Title:\u00a0Research Manager<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span id=\"com.peopleclick.cp.fieldlabel.JPM_DESCRIPTION\" class=\"pc-rtg-h2\" title=\"\"><label id=\"com.peopleclick.cp.formdata.JPM_DESCRIPTION_label\" for=\"com.peopleclick.cp.formdata.JPM_DESCRIPTION\">Role Purpose<\/label><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our Marketing team has an urgent requirement for a Research Manager. The role\u2019s responsibilities will encompass Market Research and Competitive Understanding and will require the selected candidate to manage all in-house research programmes.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span id=\"com.peopleclick.cp.fieldlabel.JPM_ESSENTIALFUNCTIONS\" class=\"pc-rtg-h2\" title=\"\"><label id=\"com.peopleclick.cp.formdata.JPM_ESSENTIALFUNCTIONS_label\" for=\"com.peopleclick.cp.formdata.JPM_ESSENTIALFUNCTIONS\">Key Responsibilities<\/label><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Managing business relations with research agencies;<\/li>\n<li>Responding to research issues raised by the marketing department or other business units;<\/li>\n<li>Developing annual research budgets and ensuring adherence to the approved research budgets;<\/li>\n<li>Monitoring developments in the research space in the country;<\/li>\n<li>Liaising with field staff to gain insights from day-to-day interactions with customers and the trade;<\/li>\n<li>Regularly reviewing and benchmarking both existing and new offerings in the market;<\/li>\n<li>Proactively scanning the business environment to identify areas of competitive opportunity and risk;<\/li>\n<li>Delivering specific ad-hoc requests on competitor understanding from various stakeholders;<\/li>\n<li>Supporting the Marketing team with expertise in managing our media monitoring programs to ensure efficiency of media investments;<\/li>\n<li>Driving deep customer understanding by integrating consumer and market intelligence;<\/li>\n<li>Developing a deep understanding of users of our various products &amp; services through collaboration with other CMU colleagues and product managers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span id=\"com.peopleclick.cp.fieldlabel.JPM_WORKENVIRONMENT\" class=\"pc-rtg-h2\" title=\"\"><label id=\"com.peopleclick.cp.formdata.JPM_WORKENVIRONMENT_label\" for=\"com.peopleclick.cp.formdata.JPM_WORKENVIRONMENT\">Position Requirements<\/label><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>University degree in Economics, Statistics, Marketing, Psychology, Anthropology or an equivalent qualification;<\/li>\n<li>Minimum of three (3) to five (5) years\u2019 Marketing and Research experience within the Telecommunication or FMCG sector with focus on research. Experience in a big research agency will be an advantage;<\/li>\n<li>Strong appreciation of qualitative and quantitative research methods (across the research process);<\/li>\n<li>Strong quantitative, analytical and critical thinking skills;<\/li>\n<li>Computer literate and tech savvy; with expertise in MS Office tools and other research software (SPSS, STATA, etc) are a prerequisite;<\/li>\n<li>Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills;<\/li>\n<li>Good understanding of Marketing, Consumer psychology &amp; behaviour;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millicom International Cellular (MIC) S.A., operators of Tigo, is a leading international developer and operator of cellular telephone services worldwide primarily in emerging markets operating across Latin America and Africa&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[106],"tags":[2027,1365],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-3ZF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}