Nida Kazi
London,Ontario
Summary
8+ years of Industry experience as a Project Manager and Research Analyst within Market Research Domain. Extensive experience in management of Key accounts, including requirement gathering, stakeholder management and client communication. Extensive knowledge of handling complex sampling and survey platform like Decipher, Voxco, Confirmit, etc. Expertise in conducting feasibility analysis with vendors and requesting price quotations. Maintaining budget and margins of Projects along with ensuring on time Rich experience managing Multi-country Projects involving multiple stakeholders across diverse geography. Successfully led and engaged other business units in development and standardization programs along with training resources to streamline business processes. Experienced in leading process improvement projects to gain efficiencies and to streamline existing process.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager
Logit Group
2022.09 - 2023.04
- Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
- Developed and initiated projects, managed costs, and monitored performance.
- Managing and maintaining trackers along with documenting ongoing updates.
- Sourced, vetted and managed vendors needed to accomplish project goals.
- Preparing RFQ and managing multiple vendors ensuring projects stay within budgeted margin.
- Daily project management of telephone and web projects from mandate definition to relaying the project specifics to the statistics team, while respecting timelines, established budgets and Logit’s quality standards.
- Managing operations across project lifecycle including set up, programming, testing, data collection, coding and data tabulation.
- Obtained needed resources by strategically negotiating with stakeholders and outside suppliers.
- Verified quality of deliverables and conformance to specifications before submitting to clients.
- Alleviating issues on time and getting them resolved on time by coordinating with internal teams.
- Managing client expectations along with acting as SPOC for all queries.
- Working with research team to help prepare insights by sharing summary results and analysis using Decipher/Voxco.
- Raising PO and closing projects maintaining all documentation within expected timeline.
- Arranging and leading debriefing sessions on selected projects to ensure continuous learning and best practice sharing.
E-commerce Analyst
Walmart
2020.06 - 2021.10
- Share insights with E-commerce team on pick up/Delivery experience
- Creating reports on online product performance.
- Identifying opportunities for cost efficiencies through automation, optimization of resources and creating synergies with other functions.
- Resolved issues regarding product availability for purchase and inventory availability to fulfill orders.
Project Manager
Leger 360
2020.11 - 2021.09
- Daily project management of telephone and web projects from mandate definition to relaying project specifics to the statistics team, while respecting timelines, established budgets and Leger’s quality standards
- Having understanding of needs, expectations and requirements of internal clients (research teams)
- Ensuring that questionnaires (phone surveys and self-administered web surveys) and project parameters are understood by all operational stakeholders
- Conducting web project feasibility analyses with external providers and requesting price quotations
- Doing quality checks on test link to ensure that questionnaire is programmed and is working as intended before sharing it with end client
- Regular follow up on projects’ methodological parameters (telephone and web): number of completes, quotas, duration, response rate, sample status, web sample representativeness, quality of external lists, deadlines, etc
- Effective and quick follow-up regarding any problems, difficulties, or requests from internal clients (research teams)
- Cooperating with and liaising between various units of operations department to perform pre-test analysis and follow-up, and to launch and monitor fieldwork
- Identifying potential problems before and during project and proactively looking for solutions
- Organizing and leading project kick-offs
- Creating online sampling frameworks based on project’s scope and sampling methodology specified by research team.
- Preparing and cleaning online sample databases provided by external clients
- Working with research team and help them preparing insights and analysis by sharing summary results and crosstabs from Decipher.
Project Manager
Tata Consultancy Services, Nielsen
2011.06 - 2020.01
- Co-ordinated with multiple teams both internal and external (vendors) to ensure project is delivered on time
- Was driving client value by engaging and understanding client requirements along with implementing business objectives by promoting use of Global Track product
- Worked with Analytical and research team together to derive business insights from RMS database for retailers and manufacturers
- Delivered analytical reports and consolidating databases for clients to deliver actionable insights
- Acted as Liaison between Nielsen and retailers/manufacturers and lead multiple project and initiatives
- Resolved and troubleshooted client questions and complex queries by performing logical analysis
- Maintained, Refreshed BAU reports for Premium Clients on time and with 100% quality
- Reviewed and prepared statement of work, maintaining documentation and ensuring governance frameworks is deployed and maintained across process.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Biotechnology
S.P University
Anand, Gujarat04.2010
Bachelor of Science - Biotechnology
S.P. University
Anand, Gujarat. India.04.2010
Skills
- Decipher, Feasibility and research, Advance Excel, Stakeholder Management, Document Control, SharePoint, Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, Proficient planning, organizing, communication and writing skills, Meticulous with attention to detail, Proficient in process mapping and a Team player with people skills, Can adopt new technologies with ease.
- Portfolio of Clients while working on Nielsen Account: Reckitt Benckiser, SC Johnson, Energizer, Perfetti Van Melle, Walmart, Lindt, Coca-Cola.
- Portfolio of Clients while working with Leger: Canada Health, BC Tourism, Various other Government agencies and FMCG clients
- Portfolio of Client while working with Logit : Ikea, Publicis, Vividata, Fidelity, Euromoney, DigInsights.
Languages
English
Professional Working
Hindi
Native or Bilingual
Urdu
Full Professional
Gujarati
Native or Bilingual
Arabic
Elementary
Punjabi
Elementary
Korean
Elementary
Timeline
Project Manager
Logit Group
2022.09 - 2023.04
Project Manager
Leger 360
2020.11 - 2021.09
E-commerce Analyst
Walmart
2020.06 - 2021.10
Project Manager
Tata Consultancy Services, Nielsen
2011.06 - 2020.01
Bachelor of Science - Biotechnology
S.P University
Bachelor of Science - Biotechnology
S.P. University
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