Project Director

Qualitative Project Director

Agency: Adelphi

Job Function: Strategy and Planning

Job Subfunction: Research and Insights

Job Description: We are looking for new talent to join Adelphi Research. We conduct market research, both qualitative and quantitative, and are exclusive to the pharmaceutical space. Through our work, we help provide insights that bring several new drugs to market to fundamentally impact the lives of patients living with a myriad of conditions, including oncology, neuroscience, immunology, diabetes and others. It is rewarding work and we hope you will consider joining our team! If you're looking for a company that strives to create a work environment that encourages and compliments you, you're curious, a critical thinker able to think outside the box, like challenges and are passionate about what you do, we definitely want to speak with you!

Your responsibilities as a Qualitative Project Director include:

• Development of a solid understanding of good research practices and demonstrated ability to serve as a Co-Project Manager and back-up on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Participate in in-house moderator training, writing first drafts of screeners and discussion guides making edits to guides based on project lead and client feedback
• Conduct telephone/in-person in-depth interviews with supervision
• Set up fieldwork, monitor recruiting and quality of recruiting
• Prepare report appendices
• Prepare preliminary analysis of results from in-depth and focus group research
• Draft sections of, or entirety of report with direction and at the discretion of the project lead
• Review audio, videotapes of interviews and notes for verbatims and analysis
• Conduct review of secondary sources (Internet, publications, associations) for published information on therapy areas and identification of key opinion leaders (KOLs)
• Provide appropriate/relevant information to assist with disease background knowledge for proposals and project work
• Prepare for and conduct internal kick-off meetings
• Interface with clients under guidance of senior project staff, and demonstrate an ability to understand clients' business needs
• With senior staff, participate in client visits to secure new and repeat business

What you need to do the job:

• Bachelor's Degree plus a minimum of 1 year of experience in market research, knowledge of pharma/biotech industries a plus
• Creative, innovative and analytical thinker with outstanding communications and organization skills
• Highly skilled in Power Point, Word, Excel, and other relevant software.
• Run analysis using market research software
• Write first drafts of screeners and questionnaires, make edits to questionnaires, based on project lead and client feedback
• Participate in an in-person pretest sessions, moderate in-person/telephone pretest sessions
• Understand how to check soft launch data and how to monitor fieldwork through reportal
• Check online surveys thoroughly to ensure they are programmed accurately
• Understand how to check a data set to ensure logic is being followed
• Provide direction for report template creation
• Provide direction for data file cleaning, run basic tables for output from analyses
• Draft sections of, or entirety of report with direction and at the discretion of the project lead
• Check data in reports for statistical significance, check codes on open-ended questions
• Post data, if required, understand how to QC posted data
• Present to 'friendly audience' on relatively simple/focused studies

$60,000 - $70,000