Market Research Specialist - Automotive

Stellenbeschreibung

Job description

Our client, a leading global consultancy partnering with one of the world’s largest technology companies, is currently hiring for a Market Research Specialist to improve the freshness and accuracy of all its automotive data attributes.

This will be done by establishing a Locality Expert who will become knowledgeable of local conditions, policies, and country-wide changes in order to proactively build a pipeline of potential real‑world changes.

Responsibilities

• Work with the policy team on policy creation for these countries and provide local context as needed.
• Do meta QC and random checks to figure out quality issues.
• Create a country metric for quality and conduct in-country drives to provide feedback and data to client working groups.
• Be the owner for the country for queries from any other team as well as for other basemap features.
• Curate region‑specific implicit/statutory speed limits and rules.
• Research news articles and notices from government agencies, highway construction, or other agencies when there are scheduled maintenance or repair.
• Identify edge cases that might get missed.
• Identify gaps in algorithms.
• Provide inputs to prioritise issues more proactively, and with local knowledge.
• Support proactive outreach with government and transit authorities to understand upcoming changes, systematic issues with data.
• Support the partnerships and other outreach teams in local knowledge and context as needed.
• Consult on all sign types to provide local context, understanding, and interpretations of various road signs.
• Assist with quality assurance and country certification processes to ensure that the highest quality level is reached and maintained in the assigned country.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in the automotive industry or urban planning, traffic, transit, signals, or signages.
• Strong understanding of market research methodologies and techniques.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in the local language and in English.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent time management and organisational skills.
• Strong analytical skills, excellent attention to detail, and problem‑solving skills.
• Fluent English & German language required.

This is an immediate start contract role which will run for a minimum period of 12 months, with the potential to either extend or become permanent (although this cannot be guaranteed).