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Eva Gerritse
Business Lead Sponsorship Research
32-40 hours
senior

Vacancy Senior Research Manager Sports & Sponsorship

Are you an experienced market researcher with a passion for sports? Do you want to use your experience to provide international sports organizations and sports sponsors with insights that really help them move forward? Do you take our Junior Research Managers in tow to always strive for the best result? Then our vacancy for Senior Research Manager Sport & Sponsorship is something for you.

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Eva Gerritse
Business Lead Sponsorship Research

What will you do?

You are one of the experienced researchers on team Blue Sponsorship Impact. This team conducts market research for international sports organizations and sports sponsors. As Senior Research Manager you are responsible for international research projects for clients in the sports world. On these projects you will work together with our Junior Research Managers and Strategic Consultants. You are the final responsible project manager, maintain the relationship with clients and ensure that our projects are of the highest possible quality. In doing so, you make sure that the results we deliver are smart, useful and visually appealing.  

What you do:

  • You carry out strategic research projects from a to z;
  • You manage and enhance relationships with international clients;
  • You come up with ideas about how things can be done smarter, faster and better;
  • You will analyze results and create reports (in our dashboarding tool);
  • You will supervise junior colleagues on the research projects;
  • You set the bar high, for yourself and for the team.

We are a match if:

  • You have at least 3 years of experience in quantitative market research;
  • You have worked on tracking research, preferably in the area of sponsorship, branding and/or campaigns;
  • You can translate quantitative results into visually appealing reports and clear conclusions;
  • You are customer-oriented and have a commercial drive;
  • You excel in project management and have a strong improvement drive;
  • You derive satisfaction from training junior colleagues;
  • You have excellent written and oral skills in Dutch and English;
  • You share our great passion for sports.  

Blue offers you:  

An inspiring job at a leading international research agency in the field of tracking in sports and sponsorship. You will work with enthusiastic, ambitious and sports-mad colleagues who want to move forward and stimulate each other to make it ever a little better, smarter or easier for our clients and ourselves. You do this for the biggest organizations and brands in the international sports world.

We would like to get in touch with our new colleague ourselves; therefore, acquisition in response to this vacancy is not appreciated.

What we offer you

Develop yourself

It is important to us that you continue to develop yourself. Employees are given the space to deepen knowledge and the freedom to choose their own route to success.

Cool club people

You'll work with colleagues who want to move forward and encourage each other to make it ever a little better, smarter or easier for our customers and ourselves.  

Most beautiful workplace in Rotterdam

You can use our mega terrace above City Hall Square to work, have lunch, coffee, meetings or exercise with colleagues.

24 vacation days per year for full-time employment and the opportunity to redeem additional days.

A good mobility arrangement: use of the NS Business Card for public transportation or an allowance for travel expenses for own transportation.

Bonus for achieving annual goals.

The freedom to decide where and when to work. In addition to occasionally working from home, it is nice to meet in the office.

A full and healthy lunch will be waiting for you every afternoon.

Twice a week there is a Blauw Bootcamp on our roof terrace or in downtown Rotterdam.

A weekend away to the Ardennes or the Austrian snow.

The application process

Apply using our form

First introduction

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Eva Gerritse
Business Lead Sponsorship Research
Eva Gerritse