Research Director

Are you a strategically minded leader looking to deliver inspirational strategic advice? Looking to inspire the next big shift in consumer behaviour? As Research Director for a seasoned data and insights company you can do just that. . . Interested?

JOB TITLE Research DirectorSALARY GBP60000–GBP75000 per annumLOCATION Central LondonTHE COMPANY

Having provided crucial strategic insight to some of the world's most prominent consumer brands, this leading brand and communications specialist help businesses map the consumer landscape. Over the last three decades, this innovative company have improved customer experience across sectors such as: healthcare, public/social and technology.

Winners of MRS' Operations award, they have showcased a seamless ability to strategically inform key business decisions. They solve complex social problems, from helping charities to modernise and streamline communications to promoting fair inclusive representation amongst large corporations.

Their positioning as a strategic consultancy firm, uses data and insight to shape mutually beneficial relationships between brands and consumers. Now, they are looking for their next Research Director to reveal fresh insight for clients by using competitive quantitative and qualitative research methods.

BENEFITS INCLUDE

• Private healthcare with permanent health insurance
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme
• Group life insurance
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays with additional weeks holiday after 4 hears continued service
• Eye test & GBP50 contribution to glasses
• A bottle of champagne and a GBP50 gift voucher for each birthday

KEY DUTIES

• Building meaningful relationships with clients by delivering clear strategic advice while fostering new business opportunities.
• As Research Director, provide clear direction to your team ensuring they are empowered to deliver and have opportunities to learn, stretch and grow in their roles.
• Collaborate with internal division heads and deliver outstanding business solutions to foster beneficial business relationships
• Actively network and stay up to date with industry developments, identifying new and practical data insights
• Maintain solid commercial understanding of the evolving media landscape while integrating this digital awareness into client strategies
• Assume the role of coach, allocate projects and manage client resources ensuring only the highest quality of work is presented

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• You will be a proactive and positive strategic leader who can inspire and lead teams to deliver tailored strategic insight.
• Have experience in running qualitative brand research and insights projects with a strong global communicative awareness
• Experience in running large global brand and communications tracking programmes
• Strong project and stakeholder management skills, able to lead, prioritise and delivering outstanding quality on time
• You will be future–focused and digitally savvy, with strong knowledge about how to investigate multiple data sources to find answers.
• Adopt new ways of working, technologies and methodologies across client accounts including the Hub, Adapt, Social Reading and Annalect, Tempo, Rapid, Living Lens.

Interested in becoming a Research Director? Apply now and let's have a chat!

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