Harris Insights & Analytics is a strategic marketing consultancy that delivers social intelligence for transformational times. Powered by consumer insight, cultural trends and data, we blend art and science to shape Fortune 100 brands, new products, and customer strategy.

Harris is part of the Stagwell Group, a private equity firm focused on building a portfolio of best-in-class marketing companies. While founded in 1963, today’s Harris is in “start-up” mode, looking for creative, scrappy, and curious problem solvers that are eager to help build a new culture, innovate, and take risks in a lean and entrepreneurial environment.

The Harris Poll is seeking a Senior Research Manager to join the Thought Leadership Research team and create high-impact work that solves client challenges. Primary day-to-day responsibilities will revolve around managing many different types of research engagements, both quantitative and qualitative, global and US-based, for big clients and small clients. You will manage the end-to-end research projects from designing the research instrument to the first pass of data analysis and creating reports that are visually appealing and answer the client’s business questions while working closely with a Director and Research Analyst. 

• Act as the primary point person for client interactions on most engagements, which may involve daily touchpoints or less regular interactions, bring strong project management skills (time, scope, budget)
• Ability to take a project and run it autonomously from a drafted survey to delivering a report ready for client presentation
• Bring strong analytic, communication, storytelling, and visual design skills to bear in creating reports and presenting results to clients and stakeholders
• Be client centric, from understanding client’s business/marketing/brand needs, communicating complex analyses in an easy to digest way, and translating data into actionable insights and clear recommendations
• Execute all aspects of the research process for both tracking and ad-hoc projects with excellence, managing to schedule and budget, writing proposals, designing studies, hypothesizing and analytic planning, synthesizing data and analytics, creating insights and narratives that drive actionable recommendations, and presenting results to client teams
• Proactively support client research needs and goals, contribute innovative ideas and relevant solutions that exceed client expectations upon delivery
• Have broad market research experience and understanding of different methodologies and approaches and how those relate to specific client business needs
• Consistently exceed customer expectations and strengthening relationships to support team revenue growth
• Lead both large-scale and quick-turn projects through collaboration with colleagues

• 5+ years relevant quantitative custom research experience, client or supplier side
• Bachelor’s Degree required
• Experience managing tracking and ad-hoc studies
• Experience with both B2C and B2B research
• Background or interest in trends research preferred
• Experience/knowledge of research operations (vendor management, data processing, etc.)
• Strong visual/aesthetic sensibility to bring to highly designed client deliverables
• Strong client presentation skills
• Strong project management experience required
• Ability to take ownership of projects from start to completion is required
• Highly proficient in the use of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and related computer software packages
• Strong attention to detail and enjoys process and procedures

In order to comply with equal pay and salary transparency laws in various locations, we believe the target range of base compensation for this role is $100,000 -120,000. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.