Research Manager - Healthcare Market Research

About:

At APLUSA, we are convinced that a better understanding of health enables better decisions for both patients and healthcare professionals.

Every day, our teams transform data into useful and concrete insights to help healthcare stakeholders better understand the realities on the ground, support innovation, and improve care pathways.

But what truly makes APLUSA are, above all, our more than 160 international employees: passionate, curious, and committed women and men who thrive in a stimulating environment.

Joining APLUSA means putting your energy and intelligence at the service of meaningful work, and growing within a company where excellence, humanity, and usefulness progress together.

Poste:

Your role

As a Research Lead within our Insight Department , you will take a leading role in delivering large‑scale international research projects :

• Manage full lifecycle of research projects (from proposal/design → fieldwork → analysis → delivery)
• Oversee multiple projects simultaneously , ensuring timelines, quality, and budgets are met
• Contribute to research design, proposals, and costings

You will operate in a dynamic, matrix-based environment , working closely with internal teams and clients to design studies based on client briefs, oversee product implementation and provide input to generate high‑impact insights that support better healthcare decision‑making .

Beyond project execution, you will act as a cross-functional contact point for quality and validation , ensuring that all critical stages of the research process are reviewed, aligned and formally signed off against high methodological and quality standards and consistent with the client’s brief.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop relevant questionnaires (from scratch) for healthcare respondents (including physicians, patients, nurses…)
• Lead international market research projects end‑to‑end , coordinating teams to deliver on time, on budget and to the highest quality standards , while acting as a senior contact point for quality and validation across key production stages, including pharmacovigilance oversight .
• Serve as a main point of contact for clients for the duration of the project, building strong and trusted relationships
• Analyse study data and translate findings into clear, insightful, and impactful reports and presentations
• Support the delivery of research results including strategic recommendations to clients
• Mentor and support junior researchers
• Help maintain a collaborative, high-performing team culture

Profil:

Who are you?

We are looking for a client-focused and analytically minded professional with a passion for healthcare market research, as well as:

• A Master’s Degree in Marketing, Statistics, Market Research or a related discipline, preferably combined with a scientific background
• 5 to 8 years of experience in quantitative market research within the healthcare sector
• Experience working on global/international projects
• Comfortable working with clients and colleagues across multiple time zones, and experienced navigating cultural and geographically diverse team dynamics
• Advanced Excel (pivot tables, statistical functions, database management), PowerPoint and ideally Power BI
• Experience with AI tools and digital methodologies to enhance research and keen to work in tech-enabled, agile environments
• Strong organizational and analytical skills
• A naturally curious, rigorous and solution-oriented mindset
• A strong client-service orientation and excellent communication skills

Autres informations:

✨ Our values:

• Strive for excellence
• Fuel exploration through our diversity
• Grow and thrive
• Nurture our shared ambition

These values guide the way we work every day. We place great importance on collaboration and authentic exchanges . We encourage people to stand up, move around, and naturally build connections.

All of this is done while maintaining our professionalism and commitment to our patients: a balance between closeness and rigor , so that everyone can thrive while contributing to our mission.

☕ Our benefits:

• 27 days annual leave + 8 sick days per year
• Hybrid working policy: up to 80 work-from-home days annually (3 office days per week)
• Enhanced maternity leave: 39 weeks
• Pension scheme with 5% employer contribution
• Private health insurance fully covered for single employees after 3 months
• Income protection insurance fully funded by the company
• Company mobile phone provided depending on the role
• Business travel insurance coverage for employees