Associate Director

We're looking for an Associate Director to join the UK's leading custom healthcare team to play a pivotal role in managing client relationships and designing and executing game-changing research. You'll also help to manage members of our talented healthcare team.

What will I be doing?

• Delivering impactful end to end research from set-up, design and execution of projects.
• Significantly contributing to innovative, winning proposals & pitch in response to complex, challenging briefs.
• Building capability within the team, including on-the-job mentoring and coaching.
• Starting to build enduring client partnerships at the trusted advisor level.
• Supporting on driving development and growth across our key clients.

You also have the support of a fantastic team - bright, enthusiastic, and friendly! We are serious about doing great work but it's important that we enjoy what we do!

Ipsos UK offers a hybrid working environment, 3 days in the office and working the rest from home.

What do I need to bring with me?

• A passion and curiosity for healthcare with strong interest in continuously developing healthcare knowledge and expertise.
• Enjoying the challenge of breaking down complex briefs, and working collaboratively to turn it into engaging studies with impactful results.
• Ability to develop, maintain and grow client relationships through delivery of excellent projects.
• Ability to lead complex multi-country studies across a range of methodologies for pharmaceutical brands and/or vaccines.
• Significant knowledge and understanding of the principles of quantitative and/or qualitative ad-hoc research techniques combined with a willingness to upskill on new and developing approaches.
• Interest in working across a range of clients and diseases.
• Interest and ability to support on account development activities.
• Experience line managing and/or on-the-job coaching on projects.
• Experience with more innovative methods will be a positive addition to your application: e.g. social intelligence analytics, generative AI.

What's in it for me?

Ipsos UK offers an attractive basic salary and a rewards package including 25 days annual leave, a pension scheme, and a great range of flexible benefits to suit your personal needs. For roles at Research Manager level and above we also offer private healthcare.

In addition to this, we have a fantastic Learning & Development offer delivered through a mix of face to face, online or on-demand; you can read more by clicking here.

We realise you may have commitments outside of work and will consider flexible working applications - please highlight what you are looking for when you make your application.

Ipsos is committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views. We also recognise that this is important for our business success - a more diverse workforce will enable us to better reflect and understand the world we research and ultimately deliver better research and insight to our clients.

The Healthcare Service Line works with Pharmaceutical, bio-tech, medical device manufacturers and technology companies throughout the project lifecycle from early stage strategy, to launch of a new product, to product optimization. In addition to custom research, the healthcare Service Line also works on therapeutic centers of expertise in Oncology, Autoimmune, Virology and more.

Ipsos is one of the world's largest research companies and currently the only one primarily managed by researchers, ranking as a full-service research organization for four consecutive years. With over 75 different data-driven solutions, and presence in 90 markets, Ipsos brings together research, implementation, methodological, and subject-matter experts from around the world, combining thematic and technical experts to deliver top-quality research and insights. Simply speaking, we help the biggest companies solve some of their biggest problems, serving more than 5000 clients across the globe by providing research, data, and insights on their target markets. And we're proud to share we've received our Great Place to Work Certification in 2022 & 2023!

• Job Identification 4388
• Job Category Research
• Posting Date 02/07/2025, 12:33 AM
• Locations London, England, United Kingdom (Hybrid)