Associate Director/Research Director, Oxfordshire

Salary: £Competitive plus bonus and car allowance

(Job Ref: WR/JOBS/35006- 20937)

Vacancy Details

Flame Pharma is now working with one of the world’s leading healthcare market research companies.

As Research Director, you will have responsibility for the company’s number one client, managing existing projects and developing alongside their European expansion plans. This will involve some European travel and give you the chance to work with a bright company, and a switched on, progressive client. Plus, the financial rewards are excellent too

Key aspects of the Associate Director/Research Director opportunity are:

• Day-to-day account management for largest and fastest growing account
• Client liaison across UK team and European team (run out of UK, but with local contacts) - hands-on client facing role
• Supporting more junior team in terms of project delivery; presentations, analysis - ensuring the client gets true added-value on all deliverables 
• Leading on analysis of complex, non-standard projects
• Costing standard projects (adapting from standard cost grids) 
• Designing and costing non-standard projects 
• Evaluating and proactively talking to the client to appraise business needs, work flow etc - recommending potential new business strategies 
• Team building and management 
• Liaising with Client Service Directors and other Directors to ensure the right team is in place for each project
• Identifying development requirements (training and staffing levels) within the team 
• Nurturing and developing junior members; so they quickly move beyond project managers to really adding value 
• Problem solving and solution generation 
• Feeding into Client Services Director for business development 
• Medium term the aim would be to move up to Client Service Director (CSD) level and co-manage the account without CSD support 
• Promoting new tools within the client account
• Looking for new contacts and avenues for business within the client 
• Innovation of methodologies, delivery mechanisms and development of best-practice thinking with client
• Feeding into innovation function; playing an active role in helping to develop new products and services that may be of benefit / sellable to this client

Key requirements of the candidate:

• Extensive experience in a similar role is required
• Qualitative and Quantitative experience
• Ad hoc agency experience is essential