Vedran Hadzimehmedagic, Research Executive / Project manager

Vedran Hadzimehmedagic

Research Executive / Project manager

GfK

Location
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Education
Master's degree, Marketing Management
Experience
16 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 7 Months

Research Executive / Project manager at GfK
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • My current job since April 2012

*Key account manager of all Financial Market Research projects
*Key account manager of allMystery Shopping Research projects

*Client service - writing proposals, communication and building relationships with clients, administration

*Management and organization of projects in the field of market research financial services

*Management of complex projects for large multinational companies

*Quantitative and qualitative projects from the financial market research.

*Management of financial and retail Mystery Shopping projects:
- Development of scenarios and questionnaires
- Training of shoppers
- Development of standards-based scores
- Reporting and quality improvement recommendations

*Management of financial market research projects:
- Researches of the banking market and products
- Researches of the insurance market and products
- Quantitative FMR reporting and fact based recommendations
- Tabulation and graphic reporting

*Management of FMCG tracking projects:
- Monitoring of the market in beverages and tobacco sectors
- Reporting and clarifying changes
- Tabulation and graphic reporting

*Management of Tech research projects:
- Project management of Ad-hoc tech projects
- Monitoring of internet usage
- Tabulation and graphic reporting

*Writing and publishing PR articles

Main clients: Raiffeisen bank, UniCredit bank, Sberbank, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank, TetraPak, The Coca-Cola company, Imperial Tobacco, Henkel, Unilever, Uniqa, VIG, Merkur.

Junior Research Executive / Project manager at GfK
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • August 2011 to April 2012

Researcher / project management for:

- Financial sector Mystery Shopping projects
- Banking sector market research projects
- Insurance sector market research projects
- FMCG sector market research projects
- Tracking market research projects (several market sectors)

Research Assistant at GfK
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • July 2010 to July 2011

Assistance at:

- Financial Mystery Shopping projects
- Financial and Insurance market research projects
- FMCG research projects
- Tech research projects
- Tracking projects.

Part - time Research assistant at GfK
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • November 2007 to December 2010

Part time assistance at various market research projects.

Note: Part time job - the experience is not registered or documented.

Education

Master's degree, Marketing Management
  • at Sarajevo School of Economics and Business
  • February 2015
Bachelor's degree, Marketing Management
  • at Sarajevo School of Economics and Business
  • October 2010

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Quantitative Research
Statistical Consulting
Consultancy
Customer Satisfaction Studies
Employee Satisfaction Studies
Reporting and consultancy
MS Excel (Professional usage)
Questionnaire and sample design
Project management
Leading Mystery Shopping projects
MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Project)
Desk and Online research
Segmentation studies
Advertising pre and post testing studies
Tracking studies
Qualitative studies (using online tools)

Languages

English
Expert
Italian
Expert
Bosnian
Expert
French
Beginner

Memberships

GfK CEEMETA
  • Member of GfK CEEMETA Financial Market Research Team
  • July 2011

Training and Certifications

IELTS Exam | Score 7.5 - Equivalent to C1 level on CEFRL (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2015
Valid Until:
May 2017
Market Opportunities & Innovation Workshop (Training)
Training Institute:
GfK Austria
Date Attended:
March 2015
Duration:
16 hours
Introduction into Rasch Modelling (Training)
Training Institute:
Faculty of Mathematics
Date Attended:
May 2014
Duration:
24 hours
Advanced Project Management - 35 PDU contact hours (PMI methodology) with a certified PMP (Training)
Training Institute:
Kurgan Educational Centre
Date Attended:
November 2014
Duration:
35 hours
Introduction in Project Management (Training)
Training Institute:
Kurgan Educational Centre
Date Attended:
May 2014
Duration:
8 hours
CILS-DIT/ QUATTRO - C2 - Certification of Italian as a Foreign Language - highest level (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2013
Valid Until:
May 2013
Education in Structural Modelling Procedures (Training)
Training Institute:
Society of psychologists FBiH
Date Attended:
April 2013
Sociolog.dx - Online qualitative research tool (Training)
Training Institute:
GfK Belgrade
Date Attended:
September 2013
Training for the usage of research tools in market research (Training)
Training Institute:
GfK New Comers Academy (Vienna)
Date Attended:
October 2010
Education in Business English (Training)
Training Institute:
Interlingua
Date Attended:
January 2007
Training for online Mystery Shopping software usage (Training)
Training Institute:
GfK / CheckerSoft
Date Attended:
January 2012
Market Opportunities & Innovation Workshop (Training)
Training Institute:
GfK Croatia
Date Attended:
December 2012

Hobbies

  • Politics, Geomarketing