About Nottingham Spirk

Founded in 1972, Nottingham Spirk (NS) helps corporate innovators grow their businesses by partnering with them from design to delivery, to create remarkable product innovations, medical devices, consumer product packaging, and more. With every discipline needed for your project in-house, we help our client-partners disrupt their industries, improve the lives of consumers, and change the world.

With 1,400 issued patents and counting – and a 95% commercialization rate – the things we create make it to market.

Summary

A unique position that incorporates qualitative and quantitative consumer and industrial insights. This role is part of project teams, acting as the SME for insights-related topics. This role applies their expertise in qualitative and quantitative research, across multiple markets and industries.

This enthusiastic professional will guide Nottingham Spirk’s diverse global client partners in identifying product and service innovative growth opportunities based on market, industry and consumer insights. This position combines novel, unorthodox perspectives with traditional, fundamental research capabilities in the research, compilation, and recommendation for both B2B and B2C projects. This is an opportunity to be a pivotal part of a best-in-class business innovation firm and drive transformative change. The Insights Manager will be a self-starter with a passion for strategic consulting and market research. A successful candidate will know how to plan and execute traditional and unconventional research programs using qualitative and quantitative approaches to deliver objective, actionable, data-based implications. This candidate will be insatiably inquisitive, detail-oriented, creative, and poised. The candidate will work in tandem with internal team members and external client partners to meet program objectives.

This is a hands-on position. Assignments may include client pre-deal presentations to acquaint the client with what we offer in insights services through insight strategy development, planning and writing of discussion guides or surveys, moderating, doing in-field observations of end users, data collection and analysis, development of conclusions/recommendations, development of report/presentations and presenting to internal teams and clients. Previous experience and proficiency with moderating focus groups, conducting in-depth interviews, and formally presenting findings to clients is a requirement.

This role will remain active in vertical innovations while the project moves to other phases in design, prototyping and engineering to emphasize the voice of the end user (either business or consumer) and may involve later stage insight strategy and execution. This role must be able to work independently with minimal supervision. The ability to manage work product quality, deadlines, budgets, and client expectations is imperative to success in this position.

The Insights Manager must be comfortable with primary quantitative, qualitative and secondary research methods and have the ability to synthesize findings from multiple sources into a larger strategic picture.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Marketing Research, Statistics, Sociology, Anthropology, or equivalent experience in the insights field.
• Advanced degree is a plus.
• 5+ years of relevant experience mining and translating market and consumer insights in multiple industry sectors
• 3+ years of experience assessing client needs and presenting recommendations to clients
• 3+ years of moderating in live, virtual, and in-context settings (i.e., ethnography)

Benefits

When you combine a competitive salary, a flexible, hybrid work schedule, comprehensive benefit package, and dog-friendly environment, with industry changing projects and best-in-class client-partners, we are Nottingham Spirk. Interested in joining this team of expert innovators? Apply now!

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