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Associate Director-Qualitative team
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Are you a dynamic leader with a passion for qualitative research in the FMCG industry? Does innovation and complex decision-making excite you? Join us at Ipsos as an Associate Director to shape global insights. Ready for a career where your contributions make a global impact? Let's connect!
About the Role
As an Associate Director at Ipsos, you'll be at the forefront of cutting-edge research, leading innovative and exploratory projects for our key global clients. Joining our award-winning qualitative team, you will work on groundbreaking studies, providing strategic leadership on multi-market and global programmes. This role offers significant travel and immersion across various global markets, including Japan, Italy, and Sweden. It's a high-impact opportunity designed for growth, paving the way for career progression toward a Research Director role. Be prepared to lead client discussions, provide innovative solutions, and drive impactful research stories.
About You
Essential skills:
- Enthusiastic about working in the FMCG space.
- Interest in innovation, behaviour change, and AI-enabled research methodologies.
- Proven track record in qualitative market research with excellent client management skills.
- Comfortable leading projects with a blend of qualitative methodologies.
- Microsoft Office Suite.
- Strong organisational and time management abilities.
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills.
- Proven leadership in account management and project delivery.
- Ability to design research proposals and translate research into actionable insights.
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Desirable Skills:
- Experience in FMCG market research.
- Demonstrated capability in AI and machine learning applications in research.
Benefits
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 of health & wellbeing, financial benefits and professional development opportunities.
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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.
Your application will be reviewed by someone from our Talent Team who will be in touch either way to let you know the outcome.
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