Role Summary and Impact
Reporting of the role
This role reports to: Sr. Business Director - Strategy 3 Best things about the job:
- Drive audience and cultural insights that help inform the media and partnership investments for FMCG client
- Exposure to best of tools and partnership eco-system that enables data-driven insights, and constantly learning about new innovation opportunities
- Best practices and case studies from GroupM
In this role, your goals will be:
In three months:
- Understand the brand portfolio, competition set, current research and studies and client requirements
- Ability to read both structured data (brand health, media investments) and unstructured data ( Youtube comments, social posts) to craft an understanding of what is relevant for brand and its strength and weaknesses
- Use social listening and 3 rd party tools to craft reports and studies that address requirements - eg: GenZ media trends, analysing category conversations around themes like festivals or tracking and monitoring current campaigns
In six months:
- You would be the go-to expert on any kind of audience and cultural insights which will help planners and clients to better create media plans and partnerships
- Understand the specific cohorts related to the client business and go deep on how to address them in media and communication
- Set up cadence and structures for brand reporting on social listening, insights, cultural oppurtunities
- Collaborate with the necessary teams during the course of a campaign or an Annual Plan to create frameworks and provide point of view on new trends.
In 12 months:
- Create a positioning and media map for client brands vs competition and improvement areas
- Recognised contributor adding value from qualitative and quantitative research to improve media plans (Eg: recommending a new platform, capitalising on a new trend)
Responsibilities of the role:
- Custodian of all insights around a brand: brand tracks, consumer research from client, tool outputs
- Crafting the project scope, tools needed, and the content to be covered
- Ability to effectively present the work in a compelling storytelling manner.
- Explore new methodologies, use of AI tools in audience and cultural understanding
Skills and Experience
What you will need:
- Understanding of various qualitative and quantitative tools like TGI, GWI, Unmetric, Talkwalker etc
- Should have the capability of mining and articulating media/consumer insights.
- Understanding of media eco-system, cultural tentpoles - ability to craft POVs on how these can be leveraged by client (Eg: Emerging sports partnerships)
Minimum qualifications:
- MBA
- 5+ years of Qualitative / Quantitative Research experience
- Keen interest in consumer behaviour, media landscape, brands and marketing