One of the world's leading and most progressive market research and information consultancies requires a commercial and highly-motivated Business Unit Director to spearhead exciting new developments within its Fashion & Luxury Retail Division.
The Business Unit Director will be responsible for all aspects of quality, servicing, management, improvement and budgetary control of the client service processes, as well as needing to demonstrate an ability to develop new panels within this sector.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Development of continuous strategy to ensure long term growth, both revenue and product for the panel in line with the company strategy.
- Be a spokesperson within the sector, building relationships with decision makers at retailers, brands and gaining coverage at conferences and in the media.
- Achievement of the revenue budget and ensuring all potential clients are identified and approached to maximise revenue potential.
- Manage agreed cost budget to target.
- Recruitment, training, management and development of staff
- Responsibility for co-ordination of the recruitment of retailers to the panel.
- Full responsibility for the data quality and deliverables, in line with standards set by the Research Director.
- Ensure exceptional high level of client servicing on panel product categories.
To succeed in the role, it is essential you have a good understanding of the retail sector, ideally fashion/luxury retail, and you will have operated at a senior level. You may not have worked directly in market research, however will have had exposure to market research or continuous insight. Experience may therefore have been gained within retail, fashion wholesale/manufacturing, or within another market research/insight supplier supporting this client base.
As you will have full ownership of your own business unit and its direction, having a strong strategic focus is essential, along with the ability to analyse market research results and present insightful conclusions to clients. You must be able to represent the business in an extremely professional manner to existing and potential clients, and have an excellent track record of building and maintaining relationships and delivering at senior level within the retail sector.
This is an exciting opportunity to make your mark within a dynamic and growing organisation.
This job expired on 13/06/2010
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