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This is a Research Assistant (specialist administrative) job within the Consumer and Market Knowledge Department (CMK) of Procter and Gamble.
The region you will be working on will be CEEMEA (Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa). The Research Assistant will make substantial contributions in operating systems and processes to support the growing Hair CEEMEA business:
1) You will be responsible for all core Research Assistant deliverables for Hair Care. This includes budget tracking, research commissioning and follow through to ensure standards (process, documentation, supplier allocation, etc) are adhered to and constantly improved.
2) You may have cross-Beauty operations projects – e.g. budget and payments tracking, supplier relationships and processes, questionnaire standards implementation. You will work priorities with your manager and you will collaborate with the regional colleagues and the broader CMK team in the countries to ensure the project is executed flawlessly.
3) You will be trained and will master use of knowledge/database management systems and may extract data and/or analyze basic information that will help us be a more effective and efficient.
4) Some of your work, especially in early part of career and depending on season, will be administrative work. This will include populating Excel or Word market share templates and scorecards and writing quick data overviews, uploading research summaries and documents into shared sites, printing, and assisting group managers on meeting logistics. Depending on and as you grow in mastery, the weight of technical work will increase over administrative.
5) You will also provide operational and system support, sometimes logistical support, to facilitate the delivery of all our projects with particular focus on training, knowledge management, system and other organizational efforts.
6) You will have frequent contact with all levels of the organization
Summary of Requirements:
- Excellent English knowledge
- Completed college degree (3 years). We also accept University degree in progress. No previous experience expected.
- Strong computer skills especially on Excel, Word, Powerpoint.
- Knowledge or quick ability to learn new software/databases/tools.
- Strong interpersonal and phone skills as this role requires remote collaboration with many people.
- Self-driven and demonstrated ability to work independently.
- Familiarity with Consumer and Market Research a plus
- Operates with initiative, discipline and ownership: Will take initiative to search and reapply, find new and more efficient ways to do things, and to deliver on commitments
- Flexibility to take on a variety of projects/tasks depending on the needs to support the business.
P&G is a multinational company manufacturing and marketing over 300 products (such as Ariel, Tide, Ace, Lenor, Pantene, H&S, Pampers, Always, Blend-a-Med) sold to 5 billion consumers across the globe.