Senior Associate, Project Manager Market Research Operations| Retail Bank

Capital One Capital One · Banking · McLean, VA +1

Project Manager for Market Research Operations within a retail bank, focusing on efficiency, consistency, accuracy, and delivery of insights. Responsibilities include managing recurring studies, governance standards, project tracking, budget, and vendor relationships.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and manage recurring team level operations, including: core research program studies and enterprise governance standards (ensuring our compliance with & routine updating of processes, standards and templates, in accordance with legal /privacy & audit-ready standards)
  2. Research program management, including: maintaining & updating our primary research project tracker and overall research calendar management
  3. Budget management: ensuring the accurate tracking of our research project spend in partnership with the finance team support.
  4. Vendor management, including: liaising with our primary and secondary research vendors, ensuring these relationships are well-managed in partnership with our ESM support
  5. Coordinate recurring team level communications. This includes activities such as socializing team capabilities, research studies, creating newsletters, and sharing project pipeline updates

Skills

Required

  • Project or program management experience collaborating across broad groups of cross-functional stakeholders
  • Attention to detail and ability to keep projects or programs on track and problem solve in real-time
  • Demonstration of excellent written and verbal communication across varying functional groups and levels
  • Ability to spot opportunities for process improvements & implement change that impacts teams outside of current scope
  • Strong facilitation skills, able to collaborate, plan, execute and follow-up on meetings at the team level
  • Organized and able to self-manage details of multiple projects, deadlines and changing priorities simultaneously while maintaining strong and accurate work
  • Organizational and project management skills, with a solid understanding of market research project workflows
  • Experience managing complex market research programs
  • Self-motivated and entrepreneurial – comfortable with white space and interested in proactively proposing and pursuing new research projects to address partner questions
  • Bachelor’s Degree or Military experience
  • At least 3 years of Program or Project Management experience
  • At least 3 years of experience utilizing Scrum, Kanban or SAFe methodologies
  • At least 2 years of Relationship management experience

Nice to have

  • MBA or MS in Business, Marketing Research, Consumer Psychology, or Management Consulting

What the JD emphasized

  • market research project workflows
  • managing complex market research programs