Research Director (IUU)

• Client-First:
  • New business generation and existing client development plans
  • Identifying white-spaces to drive new business conversations with support from service-line lead
  • Being accountable and responsible for business results
  • Generating actionable-insights that help brands to grow. Going beyond the data and focusing on solutions and actionability
  • Be an ambassador and guardian of the brand for Ipsos, displaying appropriate knowledge and behaviors
  • Provide actionable findings and culturally-relevant insights
• People-focus
  • Comfortable to deal with a multi-cultural team. Ability to work with cross-teams and on cross-market projects – leveraging on collective intelligence
  • Ability to perform complex collaborative tasks—to maximize the effectiveness of large, diverse teams at Ipsos
  • Sharing and showcasing best cases with team to develop personal skills / knowledge base and transfer knowledge, skills and expertise through training and coaching
  • Keenness to learn and proactive self-development and development of others 
  • Mentoring the junior talents and being a catalyst in improving team’s performance, productivity, communication skills and well-being
• Result-oriented
  • Profit and loss responsibility for projects that one is managing
  • Problems resolution and ownership of results
  • Manage client accounts in full ensuring current and future successes in sales, profits and relationships
  • Build a network of relationships that enhances the area you work in, Specialism and Company Performance
  • Basic financial acumen (P&L of projects, Operational Efficiency, GM% Improvement)

Manage the team to:

• Handle several projects at a given point of time, ensuring time, budget and profitability requirements are met
• Help the team to prioritize tasks and projects to optimize productivity
• Produce results and research that are of high quality and consistent with agreed outputs
• Produce proposals that meet and where possible exceed the brief requirements
• Liaise professionally and effectively with the Operation departments to ensure we deliver what we say we will 
• In-depth analysis and interpretation of data. Building stories with the help of data