Research Manager - Quantitative Market Research and Data Innovation

Research Manager – Quantitative Market Research and Data Innovation

Overview
The Advisors Research Center (ARC) is a global team of researchers within Mastercard that delivers high‑quality, end‑to‑end research in support of Mastercard’s Advisors and Consulting Services. ARC partners closely with consulting teams and clients to design, execute, and deliver rigorous research that informs strategic decision‑making for clients across industries and markets.
As part of ARC’s continued growth, Global Facilities India (GFI) supports global and regional ARC engagements by providing scalable, high‑quality quantitative research delivery. The GFI team works closely with ARC researchers and consultants to ensure consistency, speed, and quality across research execution and outputs.
This role sits within the ARC Quant Research capability in GFI and plays a key role in managing quantitative research execution across fieldwork, scripting, data quality, and analysis for global research projects.
Role:
As a Research Manager – Quantitative Research, Data, you will be responsible for managing and delivering quantitative research workstreams across multiple markets while also driving innovation in research delivery through the use of AI, automation, and advanced analytics.
Candidates for this position should have strong end to end quantitative research experience and be comfortable working across the full research lifecycle and can drive innovation by applying tools and techniques to improve efficiency, quality, and insight generation across that lifecycle.
Key responsibilities include:
Quantitative Research Delivery
• Manage and execute quantitative research workstreams across global and regional studies
• Coordinate quantitative survey design, fieldwork execution, data processing, data analysis and insight generation
• Creating compelling visual narratives, charts, and infographics to explain complex data trends clearly
• Translate complex datasets into clear narratives that guide actionable insights and build client reports as per research requirements
• Develop client facing reports in-line with Mastercard standards and in collaboration with the respective regional teams.

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;


• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;


• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and


• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.