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Job Title: Market research analyst

Department: Marketing and sales

Report to: Marketing manager

Job Statement:

Gathers and conveys information to help companies determine their position in the marketplace. This information entails data on competitors, analyzing their prices, sales, and methods of marketing and distribution. May conduct research on consumer opinions and marketing strategies, collaborating with marketing professionals, statisticians, pollsters, and other professionals.

Job Duties:

1. Identify information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events in the marketplace.

2. Provide information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by translating or explaining what specific market information means and how it can be used in the firm’s best interest.

3. Use relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.

4. Use computers and computer systems to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.

5. Develop constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.

6. Communicate with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources.

7. Establish long-range objectives and specify the strategies and actions to achieve them.

Job Specifications:

1. A four-year bachelor's degree preferred but not required.

2. Three to five years work related experience a must. ( related fields are – accounting, sales management, database administration, and cost estimation )

3. The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.

4. The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.

5. The ability to identify complex problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

6. The ability to identify measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.