Head of Research & Development - Insurance Industry
Our client, a leading Insurance company has created this new cross cutting role with the intention of improving its capacity to collect quality data and analyse it to measure and evaluate the performance of its products & services in the market.
He/She
will also coordinate multidisciplinary teams to facilitate and drive innovation
in the business, provide technical & analytical input into new product
concepts and spearhead gathering & analysis of market intelligence.
The key responsibilities of the position include:
- Providing
strategic leadership in developing and updating the company’s research
policy and strategies;
- Monitoring and
evaluating performance of existing products including market share,
pricing and distribution;
- Identifying
trends indicated by new product roll-outs of competitor products and
services;
- Collecting and
analysing market data to measure the effectiveness of marketing,
advertising, and communications programs and strategies;
- Spearheading and
coordinating research assignments in priority areas and ensuring that
results of the researches are put to good use;
- Identifying data
worth collecting, analyzing and keeping, developing databases and ensuring
that they are up to date;
- Making
presentations to management and the board on a regular basis.
Education,
experience and other requirements
Applications are invited from Kenya citizens who satisfy the following requirements:-
- Hold a
university degree preferably at master’s level in Economics, Mathematics
Commerce, Business Administration or related fields from a recognized
University;
- Have a minimum
of seven years’ experience ¡n market research of which at least 3 years
should be in a management role in the financial services sector;
- Have mastery of
modern research techniques, including online surveys and a demonstrated
ability to adapt to emerging technologies;
- Have the proven
ability to test research findings and hypothesis;
- Have well
developed communication skills including the ability to develop proposals,
concept papers, and comprehensive reports;
- Show evidence of
ability to handle multiple and conflicting priorities, and to deliver
quality results ahead of schedule. Ref. No:418/BRIFN
This
position offers not only a competitive remuneration but also the rare
opportunity to impact positively the overall performance of the company; there
are excellent prospects for advancement .
Send
your application letter and CV- do not attach certificates/testimonials and
state how your experience matches the specification, quoting job Ref. No. to
hawkins.associates@khigroup.com
