Market Research Director

Job title:

Market Research Director

Company

Critical Mass

Job description

Market Research Director

Are you ready to apply your research expertise to advocate for customers in a global digital agency environment? Your role at Critical Mass will focus on ensuring the quality of the research, maintaining its relevance, and driving integration with the rest of the agency’s work. You will bring the mindset of a consumer behaviour expert who knows how to turn unstructured research objectives into actionable research plans that can realistically be executed by the team, and a leader who keeps an eye on the effective functioning of the research department.

You will:

• Advocacy: Advocate for excellence in primary research and for the needs of customer within CM and with current clients.
• Leadership: Evaluate the team’s health and dynamic, make necessary adjustments, and source new talent to meet team requirements
• Research Design: write persuasive research proposals and craft Research Designs with the perfect methodology and approach
• CM Collaboration: persuasively and fearlessly advocate for the customer’s voice in every project, provide compelling, actionable presentations to clients and internal teams, identify and capitalize on new opportunities to be of further service and value to CM and existing clients
• Team Contribution: Ensure each project provides relevant, actionable findings
• Your Craft: ensure the scientific rigour and academic quality of each project
• Tools: source & implement innovations in research and process
• Administration: Liaise with Finance, Project Management, and HR to maintain positive administrative integration across the agency.

You have:

• At least 10 years’ experience within the consumer behaviour research industry.
• Insatiable curiosity to always learn and use the best AI tools for research.
• Strong analytic skills with experience in statistical modelling and analysis.
• Ability to see both the tactical and strategic implications of research findings.
• Ability to communicate complex subject matter in verbal, written, and presentation form.
• Experience building relationships across multi-disciplinary teams, without supervision, under tight deadlines.
• Client-facing experience.
• Experience conducting research in Global markets.
• A team-oriented mindset, combined with demonstrated leadership skills.

What We Offer:

• Global maternity and parental leave
• Competitive benefits packages
• Vacation, compassionate leave, sick days, and flex days
• Access to online services for families and new parents
• Extensive winter holiday office closures
• Summer Fridays (off at 3:00 PM local time every Friday)
• Diversity and Inclusion Board with 12 affinity groups
• Internal learning and development programs
• Enterprise-wide employee discounts

At Critical Mass, we value our employees and offer competitive compensation and benefits packages. If you’re looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of our employees, we encourage you to apply for this exciting position today!

The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, onboarding, and employee experience possible! Our new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success. In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 4 days a week. The ask stems from our want to:

Strengthen opportunity for continuous learning
Improve collaboration and team relationships.
Increase employee engagement

This work model balances the need for individual flexibility while maintaining the relentless customer focus we provide at CM. We understand that not everyone may feel comfortable with this expectation, so we ask that you please let us know immediately if there are any concerns so we can help navigate accordingly.

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We do not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you are an individual with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please reach out to .

We are committed to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion within our pool of candidates, with a target of achieving at least 50% representation from underrepresented communities.

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Toronto, ON

Job date

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 07:47:04 GMT

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