Research Manager-Healthcare Custom Research

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Job Description

We are a leading global market and social research company, enabling organisations to make smarter, bolder, and faster decisions. Are you an innovative research manager eager to lead impactful healthcare research projects? Do you excel in client engagement and thrive on turning complex data into actionable insights? Join us to influence the future of healthcare research!

About the role:

The Research Manager will play a pivotal role in delivering exceptional qualitative and quantitative research solutions within Ipsos Healthcare. You will be central to client engagements, designing impactful studies, leading end-to-end project delivery, and ensuring that research insights have tangible impacts on healthcare brands and products. This dynamic role involves overseeing the development of project teams, managing resources, and nurturing client partnerships at a trusted advisor level.

About you:

Essential skills:

• Degree or equivalent experience in the healthcare research sector
• A strong track record of successfully managing studies across the product lifecycle
• Experience across a range of studies covering different business needs (including but not limited to opportunity assessments, patient/ HCP journey and communications/campaign testing).
• Ability to design research approaches according to client business needs and where they are in their product life cycle.
• A strong understanding of research methodologies and a passion for delivering insightful results
• Experience in contributing to revenue generation, e.g. by writing proposals and winning new business and/or developing client accounts
• Experience of drafting and reviewing deliverables such as reports, that are impactful

Desirable Skills:

• Experience working on pharmaceutical brands and/or vaccines is highly preferred
• Experience with more innovative methods, for example: social intelligence analytics, VR, AR, sensors, and Curation/Trends/Futures.
• Familiarity with digital data collection methods and online analytics tools.
• Experience in global or cross-regional market research projects.
• AI-Based Research Tools expertise: Practical experience using AI-powered tools for research tasks, including data analysis platforms and automation tools.

Behaviours:

• Analytical thinking
• Resilience, flexibility and agility
• Creative thinking
• Motivation and self-awareness
• Empathy and active listening
• Curiosity and lifelong learning
• Service orientation and customer service
• Talent Management
• Leadership and social influence

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you as an individual. Our standard benefits include 25 days annual leave, pension contribution, income protection and life assurance. In addition, there are a range health & wellbeing, financial benefits and professional development opportunities.

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. We have a hybrid approach to work and ask people to be in the office or with clients for 3 days per week.

We are committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views. We 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. We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident scheme, certified as Level 1 Disability Confident Committed. We are dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. Your application will be reviewed by someone from our Talent Team who will be in touch either way to let you know the outcome.

Ready to have an impact? Apply now!

About Us

Ipsos is one of the world's largest research companies and currently the only one primarily managed by researchers, ranking as a #1 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!

About the Team

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.