Research Manager at Infomineo

Presentation of the position
You will perform research, answer clients’ requests and lead a team of analysts in business and investment research.

Responsibilities:

• Building client relationships: You will be the primary point of contact of our clients, in charge of quality assurance, business development etc
• Bringing expertise: Leading a team of specialists in a given field (by industry, by region or by topic)
• Managing a team: clarifying objectives, clarifying timeline, clarifying each team member's responsibilities
• Managing projects: setting priorities, and budgeting time for each component
• Drafting proposals to ensure manageable project delivery
• Providing coaching, training, and evaluating analysts
• Their performance is measured in terms of:
• Quality: delivering accurate, verified and reliable information
• Creativity and resourcefulness: ability to hunt the information using different tools with a focus on results
• Effectiveness: ability to work in a productive way (prioritizing tasks, staying focused,etc)
• Being 100% reliable and to deliver on time
• Attitude: Willingness to improve and learn on the job, coaching of other team members, and helpful attitude with other members of the team, proactivity when not assigned a particular task
• Prioritization and Time Management: Managing deadline expectations: intermediary deadlines,
• and final deadlines

Requirements:
This position is very demanding and requires strong management skills. We expect candidates with;

• a Master’s degree, ideally in business intelligence or general management
• a minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience,
• Strong analytical skills: Ability to step back and analyze problems;
• An excellent ability to multi task
• Excellent management skills: Ability to coach, train and motivate junior staff
• 5 years or more of experience in the field of data gathering and analysis
• A field of expertise: By industry, by region or by topic
• An entrepreneurial spirit: Will to join an ambitious start-up company
• Full proficiency in English - Additional languages are a plus
• An interest for Africa and the Middle East.