Zenith is The ROI Agency, we succeed when our clients succeed. We have a simple strategy: motivate our people, deliver great work, and delight our clients. Clients want to work with happy and motivated people.  We have a superb Talent team, helping the agency recruit, develop and retain the industry's best talent. We're constantly striving to create a winning culture and we're delighted that 91% of our people would recommend us as a great place to work.  We are single mindedly focused on delivering great work. We have a consistent track record of making our clients' communications more effective. Our goal is to achieve commercial marketing success. We don't set out to win awards but see them as a function of great work.  Our greatest credential is our client list. Every day we work on challenging business and communication issues, in partnership with great client marketing teams. We are proud to have worked with many of our clients for 10 years or more and are equally proud of our new relationships.  To learn more, visitwww.zenithmedia.com

PURPOSE OF ROLE

The Research Director at Zenith will be responsible for leading the agency’s national insights product.

• Consulting with our clients on a national basis to understand the scope of their research needs and how we can leverage these needs to advance our product
• Spearheading research and data projects for Zenith’s clients
• Project managing the delivery of bespoke research projects including but not limited to:
  - Brand trackers
  - Focus groups
  - Creative testing
• Developing relationships with research providers and panels;
• Providing full suite of metrics collection, analysis, and reporting;
• Ensuring actionable insights inform strategy development and approach to clients’ marketing campaigns.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Managing the execution and delivery of Zenith’s insights and research products;
• Taking full responsibility of managing a project end-to-end, including design, questionnaire writing, fieldwork management, data processing, analysis and reporting;
• Defining and managing scope, ensuring the project is delivering value and meeting commercial goals;
• Managing stakeholder expectations of timelines and their opportunities for input;
• Coordinating with the client team to deliver against scope of work;
• Working with fieldwork suppliers to ensure smooth delivery of the project without compromise of data quality;
• Building strong working relationships with internal stakeholders in particular with the data and broader strategy teams;
• Ensuring quality standards and data accuracy is delivered on all projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Broad and detailed knowledge of and experience with quantitative market research methods;
• Demonstrated experience in project management
• Tableau/SQL/R
• A solid understanding of relevant statistical methods (analysis of variance)
• Excellent PowerPoint and presentation skills