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About This Role:
The Research Associate works directly with a team of analysts who research, write, and publish reports to help leaders succeed in their roles. Clients work with Forrester to inform and accelerate their strategic decisions, understand market trends, and compare their strategy with industry best practices. The Research Associate is crucial in supporting the team’s analysts to produce high-quality reports, presentations, and client advisory materials. The Research Associate will report to a Research Ops and Delivery Manager and will support several analysts within the data, analytics and AI space.
Job Description:
Manage research projects by working with assigned analysts, formulating a project plan, establishing a check-in process, coordinating research, and managing schedule.
Assist analysts with primary and secondary research for published reports, including telephone interviews, online surveys, and internal and third-party data.
Support analyst presentations with well-formatted charts, appropriate callouts, meaningful titles, and a slide sequence that tells a story.
Maintain the report production schedule, from inception through publication.
Conduct quantitative work with Forrester’s datasets.
Coordinate the use of social media platforms (e.g., blogs, LinkedIn, online community) in the research and publishing process.
Job Requirements:
A BA/BS degree and a strong academic record. All undergraduate majors are welcome to apply; any quantitative or statistics interest is a major plus.
One to two years of varied undergraduate or postgraduate work experience.
A working knowledge of word processing and spreadsheet software.
Strong attention to detail and the ability to build reusable resources like survey questions and formatted data outputs.
The ability to write precisely, logically, and professionally.
The ability to multitask and work independently with a team under tight deadlines.
Excellent project management and organizational skills.
A passion for learning about data, analytics and AI technologies, and practices and initiatives.
We’re a network of knowledge and experience leading to richer, fuller careers. Here, we’re always learning. Whether you want to hone your strengths or discover new ones, Forrester is the place to go for it. It’s a place where everyone is given the tools, support, and runway they need to go far. We’ll be right there beside you, every step of the way.
Let’s be bold, together.
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