At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead market research projects and drive commercial growth while managing talented teams.
- Company: Ipsos Observer, a dynamic team delivering bespoke research solutions.
- Benefits: 25 days annual leave, pension, income protection, and flexible working options.
- Other info: Hybrid work model with a commitment to diversity and inclusion.
- Why this job: Shape high-profile client programs and make a real impact in a fast-paced environment.
- Qualifications: Significant experience in quantitative market research and strong leadership skills.
The predicted salary is between 57692 - 70512 £ per year.
Are you an experienced market research leader looking for the opportunity to shape a high-profile client program, drive commercial growth, and lead talented teams?
Do you thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where your insights and leadership create real impact?
If so, we'd love to hear from you.
About the Role
Ipsos Observer is a specialist team delivering bespoke research solutions that help organisations understand customer behaviour, public opinion, and market trends.
Working across a broad range of sectors including government, academia, charities and commercial organisations, the team delivers both continuous and ad hoc research projects in the UK and internationally.
As an Associate Director, you will play a pivotal leadership role within a growing and ambitious team.
You'll lead the successful execution and delivery of a complex tracking program, ensuring the client receives high-quality fieldwork, robust data, actionable insights and strategic recommendations.
You'll take ownership of this key client relationship, helping to grow this existing account while identifying opportunities for new business development and revenue generation.
Working alongside Directors and senior colleagues, you'll lead sizeable project teams, manage project profitability, and collaborate with global Ipsos colleagues to deliver impactful research solutions.
This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded research professional who enjoys combining client leadership, business growth and people management in a dynamic environment.
About You
- Significant experience within quantitative market research, consumer insights or related research environments.
- Proven success managing complex research projects and developing strong client relationships.
- Experience leading, developing and motivating individuals and project teams.
- Strong understanding of research methodologies and a passion for delivering high-quality insights.
- Experience contributing to commercial growth, revenue generation and account development.
- Proficiency in AI use and adoption to enhance day-to-day research and business activities.
- This person needs to be immediately available to work full time for 12 months.
- Strong research skills including questionnaire and study design, project management, sampling and analytical techniques.
- Commercial awareness with the ability to understand client challenges and identify opportunities.
- Strong numerical and analytical capabilities with excellent attention to detail.
- Experience managing project finances, budgets and profitability.
- Knowledge of research and analytics tools such as SPSS, R, Power BI or equivalent platforms.
Behaviours
- Curiosity and lifelong learning
- Leadership and social influence
- Collaboration and relationship building
- Analytical and critical thinking
- Creative problem solving
- Customer and service orientation
- Resilience, flexibility and adaptability
- Empathy and active listening
- Talent development and coaching
We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you as an individual.
Our standard benefits include 25 days annual leave, pension contribution, income protection and life assurance.
In addition, there are a range health & wellbeing, financial benefits and professional development opportunities.
We have a hybrid approach to work and ask people to be in the office or with clients for 3 days per week.
We appreciate you may have commitments outside of work and will consider flexible working applications - please highlight what you are looking for when you make your application.
We are committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views.
We recognise that this is important for our business success - a more diverse workforce will enable us to better reflect and understand the world we research and ultimately deliver better research and insight to our clients.
We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident scheme, certified as a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. We provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
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Associate Director: 12 month FTC (Observer team) in Harrow employer: Ipsos in the UK
Ipsos is an exceptional employer that fosters a culture of innovation and collaboration, particularly in the dynamic field of synthetic data and generative AI. With a commitment to employee growth, we offer comprehensive benefits including 25 days of annual leave, professional development opportunities, and a hybrid work model that promotes work-life balance. Our inclusive environment values diversity and ensures that every team member can contribute meaningfully to impactful projects, making Ipsos a rewarding place to advance your career.
