Junior Procurement Support Executive
MMR Research Worldwide LTD, India
Job Description
We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated and super organised individual to work within our busy Fieldwork Procurement team. Focused on providing the best value fieldwork services globally from relevant suppliers you will be part of a team that provide a valuable service to individual research teams across the business.
About MMR...
MMR is an independent, global consumer and sensory research agency specialising in food, drink personal and household care research. We are industry leaders, guiding best in class innovation for our clients partnering with over 50% of the top 100 global food and drink brands Our team of over 480 highly engaged, multi-disciplined employees are primarily dynamic research professionals, sensory experts and data scientists. We’re a diverse bunch, with backgrounds in Ramp;D, insight, marketing, sensory science, data sciences and psychology. We also boast a true global reach with offices in London, Wallingford, New York, Shanghai, South Africa, Netherlands, Singapore, Colombia, Sao Paulo and Bangkok.
No two projects are ever the same, often involving exciting innovations, varied methods and international markets. It’s a great opportunity to challenge and add value to client decision making, all while working with our passionate, friendly teams across the globe.
Purpose of the role:
MMR rely on their relationships with partners that carry out research in the field. It’s because of their work that we get such amazing insights which we then pass on to our clients. It’s that insight that helps our clients decide whether or not they’re going to launch a product or change the design of their packaging (and lots more besides).
Working within the team that provide this link between MMR and our research partners globally, you will provide full support to the immediate team and the wider business to ensure that everyone is kept fully abreast of individual supplier capabilities relating to pricing, quality standards/service level and value of fieldwork suppliers.
About our opportunity
- You will be fully charged with obtaining and evaluating fieldwork Requests for Quotation and fully tracking their overall progress against set objectives.
- Operating as the first point of contact to the team for Fieldwork Suppliers and internal stakeholder, you will be comfortable with answering and redirecting project queries as required to obtain a satisfactory outcome.
- Obtaining fieldwork costings from suppliers and preparing relevant cost analysis
- With knowledge you will be comfortable with recommending the best choice of supplier against a set research brief.
- Raise any key concerns relating to quote submission, deadlines or non-response from suppliers while seeking consistent feedback on overall development and progress.
- Provide full administrative support to the teams and associated stakeholders to ensure a seamless service delivery
Requirements
You will have:
- Experience within a Market Research Agency environment is beneficial, but not essential
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to build strong relationships with both internal stakeholders and external suppliers
- Exceptional administrative and organisational skills and the ability to work to tight deadlines
- A naturally inquisitive nature to develop both your own and the businesses insight to developments within the field
- Brilliant multi-tasking skills and able to work across a variety of requests with varying objectives.
- Strong team building skills while also being able to work under your own initiative
- Sound negotiation skills relating to both service delivery and cost
- A solid client awareness and appreciation of differing needs and challenges
- Excellent analysis beyond straightforward costing to consider service delivery and strengths
- Good Excel knowledge
- Good numeracy and fluent in English
Benefits
MMR offers an open, dynamic, varied and non-hierarchical environment, where bespoke MMR Academy training is offered at every level. We also offer exciting secondment opportunities at our other global locations, as well as 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 Opportunities Employer.