Are you looking for an exciting next step in your career? Do you enjoy working on high profile global accounts within the FMCG industry?
We are looking for an energetic, self-motivated and passionate individual to join our small but growing team in Bangkok as a Project Manager. This an entry level position with a salary reflective of this, please bear this in mind when applying.
MMR is an independent, global consumer and sensory research agency specialising in food, drink, personal and household care research. This means that when you join us, you’ll have the chance to work with a number of well-known brands to help create, shape and develop products and packs.
We are global leaders, guiding innovation for our clients – partnering with over 50% of the top 100 global food and drink brands. MMR is headquartered in the UK and is based across 9 markets. This role will be based in our Bangkok office supporting our Asian offices in Bangkok, Shanghai, Singapore and India.
No two projects are ever the same, often involving exciting innovations, varied methods and international market all while working with our passionate, friendly teams outside of Thailand.
Our Role
This teams’ role is to manage all operational aspects of project delivery for online projects. It is an internally facing role focused on effective and efficient delivery of projects commissioned by all of the Asia Research Teams.
The Project Manager will take overall responsibility for project execution from the point of commission and ensure the project is executed according to the specification set out by the Research Teams.
Specific responsibilities include:
- Project setup and ownership of the Resource Planner, Control sheet, information sharing across relevant teams and raising supplier POs when needed
- Ownership of the survey link – ensuring the survey accurately reflects the questionnaire, seeking help from Research Associates to thoroughly check the link
- Managing the provision of translations where relevant
- Monitoring the project during field ensuring quotas and timings are met and raising any issues or delays to the Project Owner
- Drafting the table specification and ensuring tables created are in line with the brief, seeking help from Research Associates to thoroughly check the tables
- Liaising with all relevant departments to ensure smooth project progress
- Keeping tabs on timings and budget and flagging any issues to the Research Team if anything is going off-plan
- General project admin such as document and file management and updating internal systems with project progress
Whilst this is a junior role, the candidate will need to be able to demonstrate:
- Strong organisational & time management skills required
- Strong communication skills & the ability to work effectively with teams is essential
- Solid Microsoft Office skills – including PowerPoint and Excel
- A high level of numeracy
- Willingness to travel across SE Asia to observe and conduct fieldwork beneficial (when safe to do so)
- Experience working in a regional role an advantage
- Experience in a similar project management role would be an advantage
- Fluency in English and Thai both verbally and written is essential
- Thai citizen
MMR offers an open, dynamic, varied and non-hierarchical environment, where bespoke MMR Academy training is offered at every level. We also offer a selection of fantastic employee benefits.
MMR delivers a class leading set of marketing science tools and approaches, many of which are proprietary to MMR. We are endorsed by our global client base for our agility, technical expertise and willingness to adapt research solutions to directly focus on specific client challenges. We’ve built a reputation of providing innovative statistical analysis and techniques, coupled with optimal research design consultancy, that successfully delivers against our clients’ specific business objectives.
MMR is an Equal Opportunity Employer