Tarun Kumar Padhee

Results driven Consumer Insights and Research Professional with 3.7 years of experience delivering end-to-end primary research across quantitative and qualitative methodologies, including full-service and sample-only engagements. Experienced in research planning and questionnaire design, with a strong focus on understanding consumer attitudes, motivations, and decision-making behavior through both data analysis and qualitative insights. Proven ability to synthesize complex data into actionable insights using analytical techniques and trend evaluation, while effectively managing stakeholders, vendors, timelines, and multi-market studies.

Adept at ensuring high data quality and translating research findings into clear, insight-driven recommendations that support marketing, product, and customer experience decisions.

Senior Data Quality Analyst | Research Project Manager - iResearch Services Pvt. Ltd - Pune, Maharashtra

(2023-02)

• Manage large-scale end-to-end market research projects across B2B and B2C studies, including tracking/rotational trackers and healthcare research, with a focus on uncovering consumer attitudes, behaviors, and decision drivers.
• Own the full research lifecycle from project kickoff, feasibility, and budgeting to questionnaire design, field execution, data quality assurance, analysis, and insight-led final delivery.
• Mentored and guided analysts in day-to-day project execution, including survey design, logic development, and quality assurance, ensuring alignment with research objectives and business goals.
• Oversee budget control, cost optimization, IR calculations, and vendor coordination, ensuring efficient fieldwork execution and high-quality data collection within agreed budgets.
• Act as a key point of contact for clients and internal stakeholders, translating research requirements into actionable plans and delivering insights that support marketing, product, and customer experience decisions.
• Ensure strong data quality and research integrity through validation checks (speeders, straight-lining, consistency), while maintaining best practices across studies.
• Led insight generation by interpreting quantitative and qualitative research data, conducting cross-tab and trend analyses, and translating findings into actionable recommendations; supported stakeholder decision-making through structured reporting, dashboard development, and data-driven storytelling.
• Project planning and execution by collaborating with clients and vendors on requirements, timelines, sampling plans, and budget management, while conducting feasibility assessments, quota design, sampling strategy development, and incidence rate (IR) forecasting to ensure efficient, cost-effective fieldwork and successful project delivery.

Data Quality Analyst - iResearch Services Pvt. Ltd - Pune, Maharashtra

(2023-02)

• Supported end-to-end execution of market research projects across full-service and sample-only CAWI studies, contributing from feasibility assessment to final delivery.
• Monitored fieldwork progress and performed data quality checks (speeders, straight-lining, consistency), proactively flagging risks related to sample, timelines, and data integrity.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to manage sampling plans and quotas, ensuring robust and unbiased data collection aligned with study requirements.
• Applied data validation techniques, logic testing, and statistical quality checks to produce clean, high-quality datasets that supported accurate analysis and business decision-making.

Business Analyst (Internship) - Gryphon Academy Pvt. Ltd - Pune, Maharashtra

(2022-06 - 2022-08)

• Gathered and documented 30+ business requirements, translating business needs into technical documentation.
• Conducted process gap analysis and recommended workflow improvements leading to 10–15% efficiency gains.
• Supported project documentation, stakeholder communication, and solution mapping.

PGDM - Business Analytics - Pune Business School (2021-09 - 2023-03)

Bachelor of Business Administration - Rourkela Institute of Management Studies (2018-07 - 2021-08)