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Research Manager, Nordics

Location: Helsinki

Team: Marketing and Communications

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This position is based in Oslo, Norway; Copenhagen, Denmark; Helsinki, Finland or Stockholm, Sweden.

The area:

Know the user. Know the magic. Connect the two. At its core, marketing at Google starts with technology and ends with the user, bringing both together in unconventional ways. Our job is to demonstrate how Google's products solve the world's problems--from the everyday to the epic, from the mundane to the monumental. And, we approach marketing in a way that only Google can--breaking the rules, redefining the medium, making the user the hero, and ultimately, letting the technology speak for itself.

The role: Research Manager, Nordics - Oslo, Copenhagen, Helsinki or Stockholm

The Research Manager will be a senior research professional responsible for developing a scalable market research strategy for Google, working within a team developing and executing research to help support advertising sales efforts across Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. You will be focused on equipping the sales organizations with data-driven insights that demonstrate the value of Google's advertising platforms. Given the expansive range of internal and external constituencies, you should be comfortable working, communicating and presenting at all levels, both internally and externally, with customers and colleagues and on an international level. You have excellent marketing effectiveness and audience measurement knowledge, be well connected with research vendors and media agencies in the region. You will be comfortable developing and implementing the research vision and strategies related to Google’s media and advertising solutions in the Nordics. This role reports to Director Market Insights, Northern and Central Europe, who is based in Hamburg.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop and implement a scalable market research strategy for Google across Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland
  • Design and implement advertising effectiveness studies on behalf of Google’s advertising partners and clients. Draft surveys, construct marketing tests, and/or utilize third-party research services with research vendors to provide marketers and agencies with valuable insights for their marketing plans
  • Develop business-relevant conclusions from studies and effectively communicate them to board level audience
  • Close cooperation with Google offices in Amsterdam, Hamburg, London, Paris, Milan, Madrid, New York, Tokyo & Sydney
  • Determine return on investment of research initiatives

Minimum qualifications:

  • BA/BS degree or equivalent. In lieu of degree, relevant skills or equivalent experience.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Advanced degree in related field with a quantitative emphasis.
  • Extensive experience of local market research with strong customer-facing, consultative expertise.
  • Strong leadership attitude, including proven project management skills in multi-country projects
  • Strong experience in media planning, audience measurement and advertising effectiveness research (incl. online advertising) and expertise with a wide variety of methodologies.
  • Deep interest in online advertising, digital media consumption patterns and branding measurement.
  • Keen to travel regularly across the region and to other Google offices with research teams.

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Research Manager, Nordics

Location: Helsinki

Team: Marketing and Communications

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