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Research Director-Syndicated Healthcare

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Are you an influential leader in healthcare market research looking to advance your career? Do you excel in developing strategic insights and building new client relationships in the pharmaceutical sector? Join Ipsos as a Director and drive innovation in the cardio-metabolic field.

About the Role:

As a Director in our Healthcare Syndicated team specializing in Cardio-Metabolics, you will lead and inspire a global team, acting as a key driver in our clients’ success through impactful and insightful market research. Your role will involve developing business strategies, driving revenue growth, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality research services. You will be pivotal in fostering an inclusive culture, collaborating across teams in the UK, US, and KL offices, while spearheading business development and thought leadership initiatives within the healthcare sector. Your expertise will guide clients in making informed decisions, shaping their brands, and driving their business growth.

About You:

The Research Director will be pivotal in developing and achieving our business growth plan with a special focus on Cardio-Metabolics, leading by example to develop expertise and build capability within the team. They will operate as part of a global Cardio-Metabolic team spanning the UK, US, and KL offices, and will play a key role in fostering an inclusive, connected culture across regions and time zones.

Essential Skills:

  • Extensive experience in Pharma market research working with Pharma brand teams. Cardio Metabolic experience would be a plus
  • A proven track record in new business development and the ability to drive revenue generation is key.
  • A proven track record in account management and looking after existing business is also important.
  • Thorough knowledge and experience of the principles of quantitative and / or qualitative ad-hoc research techniques
  • Proven track record of team management
  • Deep understanding of research methodologies and analytical techniques
  • Expert in developing, maintaining and growing client relationships through consultation, partnership and insight
  • A strong track record of successfully leading studies across the product lifecycle; several years focused on pharmaceutical brands essential

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Desirable Skills:

  • Experience with more innovative methods, for example, social intelligence analytics.
  • Proficiency in AI use and adoption to enhance day-to-day tasks.
  • Familiarity with digital data collection methods and online analytics tools.
  • Experience in global or cross-regional market research projects.
  • Enjoying the challenge of breaking down complex topics and briefs, turning it into engaging studies with impactful results
  • Interest in working across a range of clients and diseases
  • Evidence of ‘new way’ thinking (embracing and applying new methodologies applied to clients’ issues)
  • Experience contributing to or leading thought leadership (e.g. conference abstracts, posters, white papers)

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  • Analytical thinking
  • Resilience, flexibility and agility
  • Creative thinking
  • Motivation and self-awareness
  • Empathy and active listening
  • Curiosity and lifelong learning
  • Service orientation and customer service
  • Talent Management
  • Leadership and social influence
  • Solves problems at a systemic level — improving the process for everyone, not just the project
  • Inspires confidence and action through authoritative, compelling communication
  • Sets strategic direction and priorities with vision
  • Creates a culture where feedback is valued and people feel inspired to develop

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.

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.

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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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Ipsos is one of the world’s largest research companies and currently the only one primarily managed by researchers, ranking as a #1 full-service research organization for four consecutive years. With over 75 different data-driven solutions, and presence in 90 markets, Ipsos brings together research, implementation, methodological, and subject-matter experts from around the world, combining thematic and technical experts to deliver top-quality research and insights. Simply speaking, we help the biggest companies solve some of their biggest problems, serving more than 5000 clients across the globe by providing research, data, and insights on their target markets. And we are proud of our continuous efforts in making Ipsos the best place to work!

The Healthcare Service Line works with Pharmaceutical, bio-tech, medical device manufacturers and technology companies throughout the project lifecycle from early stage strategy, to launch of a new product, to product optimization. In addition to custom research, the healthcare Service Line also works on therapeutic centers of expertise in Oncology, Autoimmune, Virology and more.

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Skills

Pharma Market Research
Quantitative Research
Qualitative Research
Team Management
Client Relationship Management
Analytical Techniques
Business Development
Strategic Planning
Cardio-Metabolic Expertise
Thought Leadership
Social Intelligence Analytics
AI Adoption
Digital Data Collection
Online Analytics Tools
Cross-Regional Project Management
Product Lifecycle Management

Location

London, UK

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