Title:

Senior Client Development Executive

Location:

Shanghai or Beijing, China

Business Description:

Through proprietary digital panels and research products and services, Lightspeed delive valuable data to help businesses make informed decisio.

We are now the largest provider of online research in the world. Our progress presents new and exciting opportunities, requiring creativity, new technologies, thought leadehip, and operational excellence.

Lightspeed is part of the Kantar Group, one of the world's largest research, iight and coultancy networks and is the research arm of WPP, the world leader in communicatio services. We have offices around the globe offering a wide range of career opportunities.

Job Summary:

The Account Executive will be respoible for dealing with clients on a daily basis; you will assess projects regarding their suitability as an online study, before providing a full pricing proposal. In meeting their objectives, the Account Executive will meet clients, develop proposals, manage clients and review deliverable prior to forwarding to client.

Roles/Respoibilities:

The role incorporates the following elements:

- Prioritise briefs received from the clients and effectively conducting the feasibility / pricing proposal within the agreed timescale

- Provide information and/or education to clients around the online research methodology and Lightspeed Research best practices and Research on Research

- Provide knowledge of Lightspeed Research panel and feasibility / pricing approach to clients and their project manage

- Provide suggestio and solutio to cotantly improve quality and turnaround of bids or administration processes

- Maintain the proposal database, compiling sales activity reports and coordinating bids from third party supplie

- Support Client Development & Sales efforts

- Additional task as assigned

Minimum Qualificatio:

- One year data collection experience, full service market research or on-line market research industry experience

- Commercial, Business, Marketing or IT degrees ideal

- Ability to develop rapport with client management and maintain strong working relatiohips. Successfully manages client expectatio

- Must work productively, have the ability to meet deadlines, and possess strong time management skills

- Experiences in dealing with multicultural / multinational clients and supplie in a regional / global role in MNEs

- Ability to manage multiple tasks whilst working in a fast-paced environment

- Excellent communication (both oral and written), attention to detail and follow-up skills are essential

- Highly Numerate and analytical

- Adept with Microsoft: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and the Internet

- Fluent in Mandarin and English