Occupation Atlasresearch and development manager
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/73ceb2f9-18e3-4cfe-9c06-e9fb31ece440
research and development manager
Research and development managers coordinate the efforts of scientists, academical researchers, product developers, and market researchers towards the creation of new products, the improvement of current ones or other research activities, including scientific research. They manage and plan research and development activities of an organisation, specify goals and budget requirements and manage the staff.
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Job Zone
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Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed
Extensive preparation. Usually a graduate degree, with extensive skill, knowledge and experience — many of these occupations expect more than five years of experience.
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Occupational interest profile
IECInvestigative · Enterprising · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order
- I Investigative5.87
- E Enterprising5.60
- C Conventional4.22
- S Social3.09
- R Realistic2.74
- A Artistic2.44
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Natural Sciences Managers (11-9121.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (28)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- analyse business plans
- analyse external factors of companies
- analyse internal factors of companies
- assess the feasibility of implementing developments
- carry out strategic research
- corporate social responsibility
- identify new business opportunities
- industrial research and development
- innovation processes
- intellectual property law
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- manage budgets
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage personal professional development
- manage research and development projects
- manage staff
- market research
- marketing principles
- mitigate waste of resources
- perform market research
- perform project management
- project management
- report analysis results
- represent the organisation
- seek innovation in current practices
- speak different languages
- synthesise information
- think abstractly
Optional (54)
- analyse consumer buying trends
- analyse economic trends
- analyse financial risk
- analyse market financial trends
- analyse production processes for improvement
- apply blended learning
- apply for research funding
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- apply scientific methods
- assist scientific research
- collaborate with engineers
- commercial law
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- conduct research across disciplines
- conduct research interview
- contact scientists
- cost management
- create a financial plan
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- develop product design
- develop product policies
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- ensure finished product meet requirements
- evaluate research activities
- funding methods
- identify customer's needs
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- integrate gender dimension in research
- integrate shareholders' interests in business plans
- interview people
- interview techniques
- keep up with trends
- keep updated on innovations in various business fields
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage open publications
- manage product testing
- manage research data
- marketing management
- mentor individuals
- operate open source software
- perform scientific research
- plan product management
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- provide improvement strategies
- publish academic research
- risk management
- sales strategies
- teach in academic or vocational contexts
- wind energy
- write scientific publications
O*NET equivalents
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