Senior Director, Qualitative Research

<p>Material is a leading integrated marketing services company that leverages deep human understanding to help brands deliver material outcomes and experiences for their customers and the communities they serve. We build B2C and B2B brands from the insight out by providing a seamless journey that combines data and analytics, insights-led consulting, and experience activation into one integrated offering.</p>

Los Angeles; New York; Chicago; Philadelphia; San

Material

<strong>Material is a collaborative built from legendary practices across research, strategy, design, and brand building. Eleven pioneering companies united as one to solve wider, deeper, and more innovative challenges together.</strong><br /><br /><strong>We uncover what&rsquo;s important to people and create experiences that pull them in and open our worlds. We seek curious, experienced, and deeply empathetic humans to enrich our diverse teams of leaders and do-ers. Want in?</strong><br /> <h5>LRW | Kelton | T3 | Karma | Greenberg | Tonic | MotiveQuest | Salt Branding | Killer Visual Strategies | Strativity | Aruliden</h5> https://materialplus.io/

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Full-Time

Overview: We are looking for someone who is able to deliver amidst the dynamic nature of workload and pace inherent in a client service business.&nbsp; The ideal candidate is brave, dynamic, and curious, seasoned enough to operate independently and sees their research work as a true craft.&nbsp; Candidates should be well-versed in CPG, retail, and pharmaceutical/medical industries, as well as have experience leading clients in these fields. &nbsp;Due to the nature of the work, travel may be intensive at times.<br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>About Us</strong></span><br /><br />Kelton is a strategy consultancy that creates consumer-oriented business solutions based on core human truths. We create brand relevance and resonance for our clients, by taking a creative, thoughtful and rigorous approach to interpreting insights, developing strategies, and designing solutions that deliver on consumer desires and needs.&nbsp; We have a leadership team made up of seasoned research, communications, marketing, and innovation/design professionals; thus there is ample opportunity to learn and grow every day.&nbsp; We are proud of having an entrepreneurial, start-up culture where training is very &ldquo;hands on&rdquo; and there&rsquo;s an atmosphere in which teams are tight and colleagues really help each other. We serve as a strategic partner to a broad array of cross-industry clients including Target, Amazon, Google, Harley Davidson, Best Buy, and many others. With our consumer insights and research platform, we&rsquo;ve built a team that is uniquely positioned to develop solutions for clients that keep their customers at the center of their strategy, marketing, and innovation efforts.&nbsp;
Responsibilities: Responsibilities: <ul> <li>Serve as the lead client researcher/moderator with key client accounts, collaborate with other team members to drive approach, analysis, and strategic recommendations.</li> <li>Ensure overall client satisfaction and work with account leads to manage client relationships to generate repeat business.</li> <li>Together with the leadership team, develop innovative approaches, activities and methodologies that will result in outstanding insights for our clients and differentiate Kelton as a partner.</li> <li>Maintain high levels of satisfaction among our current accounts, and assist company principals in winning new ones.</li> <li>Play the role of lead moderator/interviewer in the gathering of insights, primarily through focus group moderation and in-depth interviews.&nbsp;</li> <li>Play a leadership role on a cross functional team; collaborate with the team to seamlessly integrate qualitative insights with quantitative findings.</li> <li>Help sustain a profitable, stable and growth oriented business, consistent with delivering the utmost quality of thinking and output.</li> <li>Provide staff training, mentorship and development, including being an internal advisor and resource for sophisticated qualitative methodologies.</li> </ul>
Requirements: Skills/Experience: <ul> <li>5-10 years of experience in consumer insights (supplier side a must; research or agency planning backgrounds preferred).&nbsp; At least half of work experience must be on the agency side or collaborating/freelancing with agencies</li> <li>Excellent, experienced, and passionate interviewer and ethnographer.&nbsp; Experience with more innovative methodologies and approaches strongly preferred.&nbsp;</li> <li>Methodological design experience is a must.</li> <li>Previous project management experience; clear understanding of project set-up, recruiting, familiarity working with an expanded team i.e. agency, corporate, consultants, freelancers.</li> <li>Experience in running hybrid studies, familiarity and understanding of quantitative analyses.</li> <li>Ability to succinctly and &nbsp;visually represent key insights, familiarity with the creation of frameworks and an experienced synthesizer of data a must</li> <li>Strong storytelling, PowerPoint and/or design skills consistent with the above</li> <li>Experience with ethnography and online communication a plus, but not required.&nbsp; Researcher can expect to collaborate with those with seasoned experience in that area.&nbsp;</li> <li>Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and effectively work in teams.</li> <li>Previous workshop planning and moderating desired.</li> </ul>