Hiring: Market Research Manager (SWE/NOR)

Position: Market Research Manager, full-time

Application deadline: Ongoing interviews, role to be filled when right candidate is found

Based out of: Norway/Sweden (flexible)

Verdane is looking for a market research professional to join Elevate, our specialist in-house team of operational experts. Elevate team members partner with investment teams in due diligence processes and with Verdane holdings in value creation and operational excellence projects.

Verdane is a heavy user of market research services related to commercial due diligence projects. Our new market research manager will be responsible for building in-house market research capabilities and for services delivery for our investment teams as well as portfolio companies. You will provide end-to-end guidance and project execution in a combination of running your own projects as well as facilitating outsourced projects. You will have full market research domain ownership but will be working closely with investment professionals, portfolio company professionals, and your peers from the Elevate Team.

Key contributions from the person filling this role will be:

  • Deliver world-class market research services for the Verdane ecosystem
  • Capture and create best practice market research framework, content, and execution models
  • Educate investment teams and portfolio companies within your domain so that we as a company become better at leveraging market research
  • Identify, establish and build relationships with external partners, sub-contractors as well as full-service providers
  • Be the domain owner and go-to-person for any project or request related to market research
  • Track and stay on top of trends and new technologies within your domain

Professional background and qualifications

  • A few years relevant experience from the market research industry, ideally in an international context
  • Broad market research skills: project scoping, info collection methods, survey design, interviews, competitor intel, market sizing, data management, analysis and presentations
  • Solid project management capabilities, experience from due diligence projects is an advantage
  • Good interpersonal, and communications skills including consolidating research and presenting findings
  • Solid statistical, analytical, and commercial skills
  • Data oriented mindset
  • Relevant education

You will be part of a high-performing team at Verdane, giving yourself the chance to excel based upon your expertise, knowledge, capacity, and motivation. Verdane offers a key role with the opportunity to work together with and help develop the most prestigious companies in their industries.

You have a growth mindset and want to work within an international environment. As a person, you collaborate well in a down-to-earth and value-based culture that is committed to creating long-lasting relationships. You have a can-do attitude and great ability to scope, conduct, analyse and present your work. You are comfortable with a high pace environment and the shifting workload of project-based work and are ready to build a team to cater for demand for your proven services.

Apply

Submit your CV and personal letter to Daniel Hansen, Elevate CMO at daniel.hansen@verdane.com. Candidates will be interviewed on an ongoing basis, and we will fill the role when the right candidate is found.

Verdane is committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive working environment and we are actively looking for qualified candidates irrespective of race, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, national origin, disability, or age.