Associate Research Consultant

Associate Research Consultant

**Job Description**:
**Associate Research Consultant**

**OVERVIEW**

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.

CoStar is the global leader in commercial real estate information, analytics and news. Commercial Real Estate industry professionals around the globe use CoStar to access the most comprehensive data to make decisions with confidence. CoStar delivers immediate, verified commercial real estate information on over 5.9 million properties across every market.

Learn more about CoStar.

**ROLE DESCRIPTION**

As an Associate Research Consultant, you will be responsible for ensuring clients maximize CoStar Group’s marketing and information products - from helping brokers and owners increase the exposure of their listings on Realla, to training new clients to run effective searches in CoStar. Through these interactions, you will curate their listings, ensuring they are getting the most visibility on our platform. In addition, you will capture market-critical information that enables our clients to make informed high impact business decisions. Paramount to an Associate Research Consultant's success will be delivering exceptional customer support and ensuring we maintain and procure high-quality data.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Contribute to the growth of an accurate and complete database of commercial real estate inventory
- Conduct daily inbound and outbound phone calls with brokers, developers, investors, and other real estate professionals to obtain real-time property and transaction data
- Investigate new space listings, recent sale and lease transactions, building ownership and construction in a market
- Monitor client usage and engage clients to use CoStar products in new and effective ways
- Build and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with clients
- Act as a first point of contact for new clients and support early adoption of the product
- Provide on-going training and support to clients to increase product use and knowledge
- Partner with our clients to help them position and market their properties on the CoStar platform for the market/audience
- Partner closely with CoStar sales organization to effectively on-board and resolve client inquiries
- Provide exceptional service to all clients with a heavy emphasis on personal attention

**QUALIFICATIONS**
- Bachelors’ degree or equivalent experience
- Experience in a customer service environment, ideally within a corporate context
- Excellent communication skills, ability to deal with people at all levels of seniority.
- Demonstrate a strong interest in the commercial real estate industry.
- Experience and demonstrated proficiency with Excel that includes the ability to manipulate data, filter and develop basic formulas
- Natural curiosity, persistence, and ability to conduct thorough investigative research
- Proven success performing to metrics or key performance indicators (KPI)

**WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?**

Working at CoStar Group means you'll enjoy a culture of collaboration and innovation that attracts the best and brightest across a broad range of disciplines. As well as having an outstanding working environment based in iconic buildings the Shard and BluFin or one of our key UK-wide hubs. Other perks include full private medical cover, dental cover, Life Assurance and member rewards, 28 days annual leave, a competitive pension, season ticket loans, enhanced maternity and paternity pay, birthday lunches and much more

CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing