Sr. Associate Insights

Senior Associate, Insights This is a hybrid role to be based near one our offices in Los Angeles, Austin or New York City About Us We drive intelligent growth for ambitious businesses and leading brands.  Customer understanding is more potent and drives greater value when insights go to work directly within marketing and experience priorities. To give our clients that advantage, we put an insights-driven operating system at the core of our design, go-to-market and digital experience solutions.   Material clients make smarter growth choices because they can see clearly how and when to take the shots that count. Together, we connect consumer intelligence with customer demand generation to build lasting, profitable relationships. Job Description As a Senior Associate of Insights, your primary role within the Strategy & Insights team is to provide support and ownership of day-to-day needs associated with medium to high complexity research engagements, leading to high quality delivery of insights and related recommendations for a wide range of clients and categories. Specific operations-oriented responsibilities include, but are not limited to, questionnaire development and publishing support, link testing and data QC, field management with internal teams/field partners, data running / tabulation, field management with internal teams/field partners, and addressing quality control issues throughout the project lifecycle. External-oriented responsibilities are focused on creation and support of building deliverables including slide creation, charting and data QC with direct involvement in writing and synthesis. High attention to detail and accuracy, autonomy in self-management, creativity and flexibility is required. Must be able to manage and prioritize multiple competing deadlines and needs with limited senior oversite. Skills required for success include critical thinking, strategic thinking, strong analysis, project management and pattern and problem identification orientation around solutions and point of view (POV). Ability to learn and adapt to cutting edge technologies to drive efficiency. You will be mentored by senior leadership and receive on-the-job formal training through Material. Qualifications Bachelor’s degree is required preferably in Marketing, Business, Economics, Social Sciences, Psychology, Statistics, or related field. Minimum of 2 years of market research experience required. Quantitative or Mixed-Methods Insights experience preferred. Experience and understanding of basic concepts of market research. You possess an entrepreneurial spirit with a strong drive to do whatever it takes to make a big impact for your team and clients. You have a strong eye for detail and make a conscious effort to understand the actual cause behind an occurrence. You possess a high level of accountability. You have a high level of initiative and an interest in growing as a manager and leader. You have a…