Business is booming and we’re eager to bring on board an experienced insight professional (with 5+ years’ experience). The role would suit an established AD, or an ambitious SRM who is looking to grow to the next level. It would suit those who have a passion for delivering strategic insight for clients, typically via ad hoc projects across a variety of different business challenges and categories.

What the day to day role involves:

• An emphasis on project and people management – showing leadership within the team and working collaboratively
• Sharing experiences with, encouraging and developing RM / SRE / Exec talent
• Being a skilled practitioner across the design, execution, and delivery of inspiring insight
• Fully managing and running (multiple) ad hoc strategic insight projects of all sizes – end to end with full responsibility
• Building day to day relationships with existing clients, owning client accounts
• Actively seeking out work / new business and writing and winning proposals (including large scale/complex projects)
• Confidently presenting directly to clients including senior stakeholders
• Delivering exceptional, story-led and commercially orientated outputs, weaving together coherent mixed method projects / debriefs
• Strategic thinking – full understanding of the client business, understanding commercial objectives and implications
• Building networks and profile - writing blogs, developing a voice on social media, presenting at conferences
• Internal improvement – overseeing changes to processes and encouraging positive change
• Negotiating and setting up white label suppliers of new innovations to evolve our methods and thinking

Diversity:

We welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds, across the gender spectrum, abilities and life experiences.

Irrespective of role we expect the following core behaviours to shine through:

Teamwork
• Puts others needs before their own, offers support and solutions to colleagues, and proactively collaborates

Mindset
• Retains a positive, can do attitude, even in the toughest of circumstances

Communication
• Keeps stakeholders (internal and external) up to date, clearly and professionally, and sets clear expectations when delegating tasks

Accountability
• Makes time and quality based commitments, sees things through, and holds oneself and others accountable

High standards
• Takes pride in delivering work to the highest standards, and acknowledges when things are not up to scratch. Willingness to challenge and provide constructive feedback when work isn’t of the required standard

Simplifying
• Removes (non-added-value) complexity from ways of working, avoids over debating, and is decisive in decision making

Being proactive
• Completes tasks without needing to be prompted, prioritises deadlines (weighting up business and commercial risks), and takes the initiative

Being inquisitive
• Questions how we can be better than before, better than the competition, how we can grow, and what’s new / exciting / innovative that we should be doing

Client Centred
• Delights stakeholders (internal and external), makes their life easier, goes the extra step, and keeps project objectives and commercial goals in sight at all times

Owning knowledge
• Develops an area of specialism (e.g. a specific category, methodology, software etc.). Shares this knowledge throughout the business to help others grow

Developing
• Prepared to take on challenging work outside comfort zone, as well as coaching others to help them realise their full potential