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Research Director Location London Office / Hybrid Overview This Research Director role presents a fantastic opportunity to build upon your successful career in this growing consultancy-led market research agency. Leading multiple programs/teams you will articulate and position our client s strategic consultancy services as well as their managed research and multimedia production services to existing and new brand team clients in the Pharma and Healthcare Sectors. This well-established agency consistently produces research reports and insights that positively influence the brand strategy of their clients, helping them launch or re-position global solutions. Our client has broad range of research and consultancy methodologies and specialities to deliver commercial and actionable insights As a Research Director your key responsibilities are: - This is a client facing role where you will be leading multi-faceted brand strategy and research teams and take responsibility for client focused methodological design work and innovative thinking around client s issues.
- Lead research projects (multi-market, multi-methodology) taking ownership of all elements.
- Takes responsibility for a major portion of the company s target (approximately £1m), and for maximising profitability. Develops new business and expands on existing relationships.
- Takes responsibility and ownership for maintaining, developing and expanding designated client accounts. Lead decision making on how to achieve account objectives
- Grow new business with existing and new clients, demonstrating a firm understanding of sales, overheads and profit. Manage projects and project deliverables to ensure overall project profitability
- Spot opportunities for commercially relevant projects within designated accounts (e.g., by identifying / passing on prospective leads following discussions at fieldwork) and take responsibility for developing these opportunities.
- You will work with clients to get under the skin of their business problems and consequently provide real, actionable solutions
- Lead, Manage, Inspire and Coach researchers across all levels.
- Take responsibility for additional extra-curricular projects designed to promote the profile of the company (for example, senior contributions in our centres of excellence, client lunch and learns, marketing activity, conference attendance, paper writing etc.)
- Oversee UK, European and some Global projects across multiple therapy areas.
- Establish and maintain excellent communications to build and/or deepen relationships with existing and new clients
What you bring to the Party - Strategic Market Research background in the Pharma and or Healthcare Sectors.
- Demonstrable leadership of complex projects for highly discerning clients.
- A passion for leading creative, problem-solving workshops and projects.
- Prior business development experience and building profitable long-term relationships.
- Leadership experience: coaching, mentoring and managing research professionals to develop their careers and contribution to the business.
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