Quantitative or Integrated Research Director (maternity cover)

Quant (or Integrated) Research Director - 12 month fixed term contract (maternity cover)

Leeds or London

Full time, hybrid (part time considered, min. of 4 days)

Job summary

As a Quantitative (or Integrated) Research Director, you’ll play a critical leadership role - both as a strategic consultant to clients and a mentor to colleagues. You’ll take ownership of a portfolio of client relationships, with significant responsibility for driving business growth and delivering against commercial targets. A go-to expert in your field, you’ll lead thinking and innovation, role model excellence in research delivery, client engagement, and people management.

You’ll be expected to develop high-impact insight solutions and provide strategic advice across a wide range of quant approaches - including brand tracking, segmentation, pricing, product and proposition development, U&A, and audience/market understanding. You’ll also inspire and support a talented team of researchers to deliver best in class work.

We’re looking for an ambitious, commercially minded leader with a strong track record in applying advanced analytics, data science, and secondary data sources to help clients unlock growth opportunities. You’ll work across a broad range of sectors, including retail, travel, financial services, and media so versatility is key.

Responsibilities

• Actively involved in winning business and building relationships with current clients.
• Ability to develop advisory frameworks, using advanced analytics, secondary and existing data
• Experience of leading, coaching and developing a team and its members
• Using technology and innovative processes to support efficient project management
• Collaborate with colleagues to promote service expertise in data and advanced analytics and facilitate knowledge sharing
• Seek opportunities to speak at conferences and participate in industry awards to enhance our visibility as industry leading
• Promote adoption of the latest techniques and software on machine learning, automation and data visualisation

Required skills

• Leadership experience in the research sector agency or client side for over 10 years with a proven track record of achieving targets and fulfilling strategic objectives
• Retail, leisure, financial services & media sector experience would be an advantage but not essential
• Excellent understanding of analytics including segmentation, pricing, max diff, conjoint, CHAID, regression and factor analysis.
• Experience of working with client data sources e.g. CRM data/client card data and media data sources e.g. TGI/YouGov Profiles/IPA Touchpoints.
• Experience of handling large scale, multi-source and complex data sets with exceptional attention to detail
• Interest in behavioural science and its application to quantitative market research
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage effectively with clients and internal teams
• Experience in leading client accounts, building trusted relationships, and overseeing the smooth delivery of large-scale brand tracking studies
• Excellent written English skills for report writing and creating insight-led presentations
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment
• Confident, enthusiastic, and flexible, with a proactive and "can do" attitude
• Tenacious and adaptable, open to feedback and willing to challenge peers

Benefits

• Hybrid working with a mix of office and home-based working
• Flexible start and finish times
• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays, increasing with length of service
• Birthday off in addition to the 25 days starting holiday
• End of year discretionary bonus
• Enhanced employer pension contributions
• Dedicated annual training budget to support everyone with learning and development
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Interest free annual travel season ticket loans
• Enhanced occupational maternity/paternity pay
• Private Medical Insurance
• Health Cash Plan to cover everyday health costs like dentist, opticians, physio etc
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme and counselling
• Trained Mental Health First Aiders
• Access to a PERKS website for savings on everyday purchases
• 2 paid days off per year for volunteering/charity work
• Paid for company social events

All applicants should have proof they are eligible to work in the UK.

If this 12 month, fixed term maternity cover role sounds of interest to you, please send your CV to our Head of People & Operational Development, Sarah Grace at