Senior Field Executive

<h3>Job Description</h3><p><strong>JOB SUMMARY (or PURPOSE):</strong></p><p>To provide end-to-end project management for all CR projects involving DA; take complete ownership of a project in the context of resourcing, quality, cost and timelines.</p><ul><li>Projects to be completed within the required time, approved budget and to the required quality standards.</li><li>Responsible for resource levels and achieving deliverables within each project.</li><li>Resolve all queries/ issues as they arise as a matter of priority.</li><li>Data analysis background.</li></ul><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>KEY RESPONSIBLITIES:</strong></p><p>TRAINING:</p><p>·       To recruit, train, manage and motivate, and where necessary re-train, sufficient supervisors to meet our survey needs and to allow for supervisor unavailability (i.e. during sickness and leave).</p><p>        Training to be conducted as per Nielsen Standards, training agenda and manuals.</p><p>·       To ensure all staff reporting to this position understands the Nielsen Code of Conduct and Field Standards and Policies, including confidentiality and security requirements.</p><p> </p><p>PROJECT:</p><p>·       Provide a full project management service to CS/ PD. </p><p>·       Act as the DA single point of contact for CS project teams.</p><p>·       To liaise with CS/ PD, Field Supervisors, IQC and GO regarding project queries, feedback, and any enhancements to ensure all projects are processed with the agreed specifications, budget and timeframe.</p><p>·       To pre-approve and organize client visits to field.</p><p>·       <strong>RFQ, Costing &amp; Booking Form</strong></p><p>-        Assist CS with all queries regarding proposals/ costing of projects. </p><p>-        Provides recommendations to CS/ PD on complex methodologies, sample design etc.</p><p>-        Review project budgets to ensure that they are logical and sensible for the job specifications, if not then organize a review and agree changes with the CS/ PD.</p><p>-        Check the Booking Form for all projects and complete any planning requirements</p><p>-        Ensure all confirmed fieldwork projects have agreed specifications including fieldwork timing, dispatch schedules, budgets etc.</p><p>-        Advises CS project teams on the impact of change of project specs and get CS sign off if timeline/ budget changed</p><p>·       <strong>Planning</strong></p><p>-        Provides input to questionnaire design, sample plan, quotas and timeline to CS project teams from data collection perspective</p><p>-        Liaise with the Field Supervisor regarding maintaining effective resource levels.  I.e. interviewing and supervisory team.</p><p>-        To ensure the ratio of Supervisor to Interviewers is 1 to 10 maximum.</p><p>-        Schedule adequate internal resource to ensure project deadlines are met.</p><p>-        Identify critical success indicators for each project, and make sure the Field Supervisors are aware of them.</p><p>·       <strong>Project Questionnaire/ Materials</strong></p><p>-       Review questionnaires and other materials provided by researchers, undertake a detailed sense check and advise on improvements if appropriate.</p><p>-       In conjunction with the CS/ PD, design interviewer briefings on the larger, more complex jobs, and conduct these briefings.  Assist the Field Supervisor to conduct interviewer briefings for the less complex jobs.</p><p>-       Liaise with CS/ PD to ensure the questionnaire, support materials and Interviewer Briefing notes are available within the agreed time frame.  Proactively chase CS/ PD if need be.</p><p>·       <strong>Confidentiality/ Security and Concept and Product</strong></p><p>-        Ensure all project requirements (NDA, concept/product handling, storage, retrieval and disposal etc.) are aligned with the Concept and Product Security SOP.</p><p>·       <strong>Project Monitoring</strong></p><p>-       Ensure all work is completed in accordance with Watch Builder standards, project specification; quality output, on time and where necessary nominating resources to achieve this.</p><p>-       Regularly review the progress of each job assigned, and plan and suggest (via Field Supervisor &amp; CS/ PD) corrective action if there is any indication that the project deviates from the original spec, budget or time. Initiate corrective action where required.</p><p>-       Ensure progressive reporting to CS/ PD as required, on job progress, job queries, job costs.  Such reporting should be done in a timely manner, so that the CS/ PD have enough time to make changes or negotiate changes with their client. </p><p>-       Provide feedback to the CS/ PD on queries raised by Field interviewers or Supervisors</p><p>-       Ensure all quality checks are aligned to the CR BASES DA Offline Quality &amp; Process Control SOP.</p><p>-        Coordination with QC and GO for Quality Checks and on time data delivery.</p><p>-        Post Field: ensure a proje