Associate Director - CX Professional Services - 1 Year Fixed Term Contract

The role covers the whole programme cycle from working on proposals either from RFPs or as proactive suggestions to assess and drive clients CX maturity conducting analysis and writing reports and presenting and activating findings with clients. It focusses on providing added value consultative style CX services either as part of an ongoing CX programme or as a standalone.

You will play a key role in leading day-to-day client interactions helping build strong relationship and ensuring that we deliver against clients expectations. You will also have a critical role in clients CX programmes working closely with our insight and client success colleagues to deliver the multidisciplinary capability that is essential in meeting clients complex and wide-ranging CX challenges.

We are looking for someone who can hit the ground running and a strong commitment from individuals to learning and developing their own skills and capabilities.

Your Day to Day

These are the types of things you can expect to be doing during your day to day although as Ipsos is a dynamic organisation this may vary as different opportunities arise:

• Assessing and driving improvements to clients CX initiatives and programmes. This could include Roadmaps VoC Programmes or Service Design
• Help and support clients to design intervention or transformation plans to deliver change which will improve both CX and deliver a return on investment.
• Designing qualitative CX projects including discussion guides recruitment and sampling strategies and reporting deliverables.
• Designing and facilitating workshops with senior stakeholders creating engaging visual outputs both before during and after each session
• Working with clients to identify root cause and co designing intervention techniques to resolve customer issues
• Displaying information and using it in telling stories that ensures that our work has real impact on business decisions.
• Working collaboratively alongside other functional specialisms - Insights Project Management Platform Services and Client Success - to support client CX programmes.
• Taking part in regular strategic client reviews contributing to and driving the overall client programme roadmap
• Commercial drive to identify and follow up on opportunities for Growth across our full suite of Professional Services
• Managing and actively developing team members through on-the-job coaching and effective people management securing talent for the future through effective recruitment

This role is an initial 1 year fixed term contract and offers hybrid working from our London office 3 days per week and the rest from home.

About You

Background:

These are the areas of knowledge and expertise that matter most for this role.

• Experience in working with CX programmes both within wider workstreams and as standalone services with a strong emphasis on activation governance and future state roadmapping
• Track record of consultative approach to determine and advise on client needs conducting projects to address and managing client relationships as the main point of contact for projects and deliverables.
• History of delivering CX solutions with demonstratable benefits to clients be it quantifiably or culturally
• Qualitative history with a solid and confident background across research lifecycle from design to delivering impactful reports
• Proven contribution to revenue generation e.g. by writing proposals winning new business and/or developing client accounts
• Experience of managing developing and motivating individuals and teams.

Skills:

A good understanding of research techniques and their applications within organisations

• Understanding and experience of the full project lifecycle for research: how to build client relationships design and deliver effective solutions and activate them within the clients organisation
• Commercial outlook understand client business and seek to elevateour client programmes to deliver measurable impact
• Confidence in analysing complex insights preparing reports and delivering presentations to high standards and tight deadlines
• Financial awareness: understanding the drivers of profitability and how to deliver efficiently across our programmes whilst adhering to client budget needs and sold scope
• Creativity flexibility and willingness to question the status quo were always looking for how we can do things better and everyone contributes to that.
• Strong and effective communication skills both verbally and in writing to all levels of the client organisation

Behaviours:

These are the areas of knowledge and expertise that matter most for this role.

• You communicate in an authoritative and influential way to inspire confidence and are always listening to the team clients and the wider business
• You work collaboratively with people both internally and externally adapting your communication style accordingly
• You are intellectually curious passionate about customer experience and looking for ways to develop your skills further
• You are committed to a growth mindset supporting others to grow and develop through feedback training and mentoring and engaging with giving and seeking feedback
• You demonstrate tenacity and confidence while dealing with senior client stakeholders with varying agendas and perspectives

Additionally please refer to Our Values for further information regarding the behavioural values that you will embody.

What is in it for me

Ipsos UK offer 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 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 clickinghere.

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. Wealso 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.