Senior Market Research Project Manager (Contract)

Quadrant Strategies; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Quadrant Strategies is seeking an experienced Market Research Project Manager to oversee projects across the full lifecycle—from pricing and feasibility to fielding and invoicing. You will coordinate with programming, manage fieldwork logistics, and ensure quality across quantitative and qualitative studies for consumer, B2B, and public affairs clients.

This contractor engagement may extend based on project needs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in market research project management or research operations.
• Hands-on experience fielding market research studies and managing sample providers.
• Experience with qualitative logistics: recruiting, screeners, moderation, transcription.
• Familiarity with survey platforms and fieldwork portals (Decipher/Forsta or similar).

Responsibilities

• Manage operations components of market research projects end to end, including feasibility, timelines, and invoicing.
• Coordinate with in-house programming on survey scripting and test links before launch.
• Monitor fieldwork daily and address drift in bid metrics.
• Direct logistics for focus groups and IDIs, including translation and transcription.
• Manage sample providers, recruiters, and translators, ensuring bid metrics and quality.
• Price projects and contribute to client proposals with vendor input.
• Track budgets and project profitability against targets.
• Collaborate with accounting on billing and invoicing through close.
• Serve as operational link between research and strategy teams.
• Provide proactive fieldwork updates and flag risks early.
• Apply quality controls across project lifecycle with data specialists.

Skills

Project management

Market research

Fielding studies

Survey scripting

Budget management

Vendor management

Multi-language fieldwork

Tools

Decipher/Forsta

Displayr

Job description

Quadrant Strategies is seeking an experienced Market Research Project Manager to oversee projects across the full lifecycle—from pricing and feasibility to fielding and invoicing. You will coordinate with programming, manage fieldwork logistics, and ensure quality across quantitative and qualitative studies for consumer, B2B, and public affairs clients.

This contractor engagement may extend based on project needs.