C Space
Associate Consultant - Mandarin Speaking

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About The Role
We are looking for a bright, committed, and passionate Associate Consultant, with fluent written and spoken Mandarin and English language skills to join our team.
You will be an expert on Chinese culture, be creative, self-aware, and able to draw on personal experiences to have authentic conversations and discussions with Chinese consumers, colleagues, and our clients.
Together with lead Consultants, you will be responsible for handling and delivering client projects by conducting analysis, writing presentations, and converting community conversations into clear client recommendations. This is not a ‘back-room’ role: we are looking for someone to support the lead Consultant in building and developing the client relationship from day one. This role is a perfect stepping-stone to develop consultancy skills in the world of branding, research, and innovation.
Responsibilities
Research:
- Moderating communities: engage community members – consumers of a specific client brand, steer discussions, and probe consumer comments to drive relevant insight.
- Designing research activities for communities which will generate the right responses to meet the client’s brief: ideation sessions, brainstorms, surveys, blogs, and live online workshops.
- Conducting qualitative analysis of the activities to understand the ‘what’ and the ‘why’ behind what consumers say and do.
- Desk research.
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Report Writing
- Driving clear recommendations and implications from your analysis and findings to clients and colleagues.
- Creating professional & convincing client-facing documents in a range of formats.
Client Management
- Providing support to lead Consultants and Consultancy Director in nurturing good client relationships.
- Developing good personal presentation skills for co-presenting to clients.
Skills Required
- Fluent written and spoken Mandarin and English language skills – an essential requirement.
- A passion for brands, consumers, and how they interact.
- A natural knack for the online world & social media: highly empathetic & able to connect with individuals online, specifically on Portuguese markets.
- You are constantly hungry to learn and grow and have plenty of energy and enthusiasm.
- Intellectual curiosity.
- Excellent writing and oral communication skills.
- Strong PowerPoint, Word, and Excel skills required.
- Good numerical skills.
- You are a real doer and a proper team player.
- Fantastic organizational skills: ability to multi-task.


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About C Space
We are the world’s leading insight community, customer strategy, and innovation experts, putting relationships at the heart of business to drive growth. We make relationships count by building mutual value between people and brands as the ultimate competitive advantage.
As part of Escalent Group, we’re a team of 1,600 researchers, data scientists, moderators, creatives, developers, and UX professionals. We put the power of our customer expertise, Escalent’s industry expertise, and Hall & Partner’s brand expertise at your fingertips.
Over the years, we have helped clients like Google, PepsiCo, IKEA, British Airways, Philips grow by developing new products, services, and communication together with their customers.
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