Job Description

The Skills required for this role:

1. Project Planning & Organization:

Ability to manage multiple studies simultaneously, create realistic timelines, coordinate fieldwork, and ensure all milestones are met.

2. Stakeholder & Client Management:

Building robust relationships with clients, understanding business objectives, managing expectations, and maintaining clear communication throughout the project lifecycle.

3. Survey Methodology Knowledge:

Understanding questionnaire design, sampling methodologies, quotas, routing logic, and research best practices.

4. Data Quality Management:

Ability to recognize risks related to fraud, poor-quality responses, quota imbalances, and data inconsistencies.

5. Budget & Financial Management:

Managing project profitability, supplier costs, panel expenses, incentives, and change requests.

6. Risk Management & Problem Solving:

Quickly identifying and resolving issues such as low incidence rates, slow fieldwork progress, quota challenges, or supplier delays.

7. Analytical Thinking:

Understanding data outputs, interpreting project metrics, challenging assumptions, and making evidence-based decisions.

8. Vendor & Fieldwork Management:

Managing panel providers, sample partners, translation agencies, scripting teams, and data processing vendors.

9. Attention to Detail:

Reviewing questionnaires, quotas, survey links, translations, data tables, and client deliverables with precision.

Responsibilities & Tasks:

1. Project Ownership

• Take full ownership of assigned research projects from kickoff to delivery.

• Develop and manage project timelines.

• Monitor project progress and ensure deadlines are met.

• Escalate risks and issues when necessary.

2. Client Management





• Act as the primary contact for clients during project execution.

• Provide project updates and status reports.

• Manage client expectations.

• Handle scope changes and project-related queries.

3. Survey Setup & Launch

• Review questionnaires before programming.

• Ensure quotas, sampling requirements, and methodology are correctly implemented.

• Coordinate translations

• Testing the survey link

• Approve survey launch readiness.

4. Fieldwork Management

• Monitor data collection performance.

• Track completes, incidence rate, quotas, and response quality.

• Make recommendations to improve fieldwork performance.

• Ensure project targets are achieved.

5. Supplier & Vendor Management

• Liaise with panel providers and external vendors.

• Obtain feasibility estimates and sample costs.

• Monitor supplier performance.

• Resolve sample and fieldwork issues.

6. Data Quality Control

• Conduct quality checks throughout fieldwork.

• Identify fraudulent or poor-quality respondents.

• Review quota fulfillment and sample balance.

• Ensure client data quality standards are met.

7. Financial Management

• Create project cost estimates.

• Monitor project profitability.

• Manage supplier invoices and purchase orders.

• Ensure projects remain within budget.

8. Cross-Functional Coordination

Work closely with:

o Sales teams

o Research managers

o Scripting/programming teams

o Data processing teams

o Finance teams

o Suppliers

9. Continuous Improvement

• Identify process improvements.

• Share best practices.

• Support training and mentoring of junior team members.

• Contribute to operational efficiency initiatives.

📌 Project Delivery Specialist (Gurugram)
🏢 Nielseniq
📍 Gurugram