Market Research Specialist

Arcadis Consulting Middle East Limited; Makati; On-site; PHP 720,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis Consulting Middle East Limited in Manila seeks a Market Research Specialist to drive complex research projects and mentor junior staff. You will gather, analyze, and present insights to support strategic decisions across projects and markets.

The role emphasizes ownership of research outcomes, collaboration with management, and delivering high-quality deliverables while advancing methodologies and data integrity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, economic or business related field.
• Masters degree an advantage but not required.
• 5+ years experience in research.
• Search engines, web analytics and business research tools acumen.
• Experience in mentoring and guiding junior team members.
• Familiarity with cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder engagement.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and prioritize effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Must be computer literate with advanced MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Extensive experience in market research, including qualitative and quantitative methods.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and execution of complex research projects, ensuring alignment with business needs.
• Mentor junior colleagues and establish procedures and tools for routine tasks.
• Collaborate across teams to ensure high-quality deliverables.
• Present insights and data to influence decision-making.
• Provide regular market research reports including searches on key clients and competitors.

Skills

Market research

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder engagement

Advanced MS Office

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, economics or business

Masters degree advantageous

Tools

Web analytics

Search engines

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

The Market Research Specialist is a key contributor to the research function, combining foundational and delivery-focused capabilities with a contributor mindset. This role is expected to go beyond execution by mentoring others, driving improvements, and applying general business area specialization to generate impactful insights. Specialists are proactive in shaping research outcomes and influencing team performance through technical knowledge and leadership behaviors.

Role accountabilities:

Responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:

Mentoring and Role Model to the Team

• Lead the design and execution of complex research projects, ensuring alignment with business needs
• Demonstrate ownership and persistence in driving research outcomes.
• Understand the type of insight that is sought after and how it will enable decision making
• Work together with junior colleagues and management on establishing procedures and tools for some of the repetitive types of tasks
• Work with management to prioritize business and information needs;
• Collaborate effectively across teams to facilitate teamwork and ensure high-quality deliverables
• Serve as a subject matter expert in at least one research domain or methodology
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and innovation in research methodologies
• Act as core group lead within the team to review, assign, and monitor research progress of those under their subgroup
• Other administrative tasks as needed

Information gathering

• Use provided tools to gather and store the data collected from various published and unpublished sources to supplement market understanding and data collected from various market research initiatives
• For regular and on-going initiatives, update the database on regular basis
• Continuously search for new sources of information to support ongoing/regular initiatives, prepare innovative strategies to collect industry research, global competition, and client data;

Analysis

• Apply advanced analytical techniques to extract meaningful insights from diverse data sources
• Check the quality of data to be used (consistency, gaps, is it fit for the purpose)
• Perform qualitative and quantitative analysis, identify the limitations. Perform valid and reliable market research SWOT analysis, Porter’s Five Forces, and PESTLE Analysis (where needed)
• Perform both individual research projects with high complexity or work with a bigger team to coordinate all efforts on the project

Report Writing and Presentation

• Communicate insights with clarity and confidence to influence decision-making.
• Present the insights and data in various formats: graphs, presentations, short reports
• Formulate recommendations and identify opportunity areas
• Provide regular market research reports including searches on our key clients, key projects, industry news and competitors

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, economic or business related field
• Masters degree an advantage but not required
• With more than 5 years experience in research
• Search engines, web analytics and business research tools acumen
• Experience in mentoring and guiding junior team members
• Familiarity with cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder engagement
• Ability to manage multiple projects and prioritize effectively in a fast-paced environment
• Must be computer literate and have advanced knowledge of MS Office applications, ideally in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Extensive experience in market research, including both qualitative and quantitative methods

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day, which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. At Arcadis, you will have the opportunity to build the career that is right for you. Because each Arcadian has their own motivations, their own career goals. And, as a ‘people first’ business, it is why we will take the time to listen, to understand what you want from your time here, and provide the support you need to achieve your ambitions.