Associate Director - Consumer
22nd January 2024
ApplyWe have a fantastic opportunity for an Associate Director to join our amazing team! You’ll be working with a wide range of clients in the financial, automotive, and travel industries.
Your role will involve exploring exciting new ideas and techniques within these sectors. We’re looking for someone with proven experience in Market Research within a commercial setting.
As an experienced researcher, you’ll have the opportunity to showcase your expertise in research and sector knowledge. You will also be able to utilise our industry-leading toolkit of research methodologies, tools, techniques, and proprietary thinking to help deliver better human understanding for our clients.
You’ll dive deep into our clients’ strategic challenges, transforming findings into impactful insights and building strong client relationships. There’s plenty of variety in our projects, with many combining qualitative and quantitative approaches.
As part of your role, you’ll manage quantitative projects using innovative and engaging tools to really go the extra mile for our clients. You’ll also collaborate closely with our dedicated Qualitative team to deliver seamless work for our clients. If you have experience in qualitative research, that’s definitely a bonus!
We have a fantastic team culture where you can expect to receive support while also being encouraged to take on exciting challenges. You’ll have numerous opportunities to grow and develop your skills, both through on-the-job training and our Walnut Learning & Development initiatives.
We offer Hybrid working, which for us is a blend of working remotely and in either our London or Winchester office. It’s all about choosing the best place to be for you, your team, and the business on any given working day.
Specifically, in the role of the Associate Director, you will:
- Plan and manage medium and large-scale research projects efficiently and creatively
- Take a leading role in one of our biggest clients, ensuring high levels of client satisfaction and optimising opportunities for broadening the scope of the relationship
- Work across a variety of clients, with opportunities to use a mix of methodologies
- Produce winning project proposals by thinking beyond the obvious
- Create engaging presentations, write commercially based conclusions and recommendations and present the findings
- Work collaboratively, demonstrating an inclusive and professional approach to working with colleagues, clients and suppliers at all stages of a project
- Supervise and develop the work of junior researchers through regular feedback, and where appropriate line manage and conduct appraisals
Requirements
Ideally, we would love it if you have:
- Solid experience of a similar Associate Director role (agency or client-side) working on quantitative projects of different scales. We would welcome hearing from those with some qualitative experience too.
- In-depth understanding and experience of different research techniques, and a desire to explore new ideas and techniques.
- A curiosity in how financial services/travel/automotive can best understand their customers.
- Excellent project management skills and able to work to deadlines, with great attention to detail, including planning, controlling costs and overseeing preparation of presentation material
- Sound research skills and proven experience in designing and delivering complex projects demonstrating expertise in a range of quantitative methodologies
- Strong verbal and written communication, plus solid numerical and analytical skills.
- A creative spark and a real desire to make our findings tell a story.
- Flexible, with the ability to work autonomously as well as playing your part as a member of a high-performing team.
Benefits
At Walnut Unlimited, we’re not just your average research agency. We’re the Human Understanding agency, dedicated to going above and beyond.
Here, we believe in:
- Respect – Respect for self, for each other and the work that we do.
- Spark – Demonstrate spark-y, charismatic, positive & energetic behaviour.
- Courage – Brave and bold. Prepared to stretch self and boundaries.
- Collaboration – Partnership with colleagues, suppliers and clients to achieve the best outcome.
- Evolution – Evolve with the times, market trends, staff, clients and consumers.
- Integrity – Always doing what’s best for the project, honest and transparent.
We’ll give you:
- 25 Days’ Holiday per annum + Flex Bank Holidays
- Christmas Closure, Birthday and Volunteer Day
- Flexible Hybrid working, Work Abroad
- Contributory Pension, Life Assurance, Eye Tests, Flu Jab
- Cycle to work and Electric car Scheme
Need a flavour of what to expect as part of our team, visit out Instagram channel @WalnutUnlimited to see what we’re up to…
Our people are key to our success. Human understanding is what we do, both in terms of understanding people but also understanding our people. Whether this is investing in training and development, improving staff benefits or funding a really great day out, people are the heart and soul of everything we do.
A Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work for, we help brands connect with people, by understanding people. We believe that interpreting human behaviour is as much an art as it is a science. Walnut uses market research techniques to understand what we think, how we feel and, most importantly, why.
Blending neuroscience, behavioural science and data science, we uncover the truth behind our human experiences.
We will be reviewing applications Mid-March 2024
We are an Equal Opportunities Employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community. All candidates will be considered equally, however, unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship. As an equal opportunities workplace, we have a commitment to ensuring equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, socio-economic status, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, neuro divergence, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. Whether you’re just getting your foot in the door, or you are an experienced employee whose life circumstances are shifting, we are committed to creating a workplace that reflects the world we want to live in and are therefore flexible to accommodate each individual’s needs as best as we can.
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