About Ogilvy

Ogilvy was founded in 1948 by David Ogilvy. David created a culture that deeply respects and cares about its people and clients. Our mission is to inspire people and brands to make an impact and we are committed to attracting, growing, and retaining the best talent in the industry.

About the Role  

Ogilvy’s Research & Intelligence (R&I) team is seeking a research professional to fill a director role across both primary custom research and syndicated consumer tools. Our ideal candidate has approximately 8-10 years of experience with client relations, project management, and is extremely data and detail oriented, and committed to high level of quality.

The Research Director will have a deep understanding of primary research (quantitative and qualitative methodologies (surveys, in-person/online focus groups, in-depth interviews, bulletin boards, digital and observational ethnographies, etc.). Importantly, they will also have a focus on building audiences and developing profiles and personas using MRI-Simmons, GWI, and Kantar Monitor.

What You’ll Do

• Meet with internal Ogilvy teams and external clients to understand their needs and apply knowledge of research methodologies to design and conduct research studies.
• Managing and developing junior staff
• Partner with others in R&I on the following:
  • Develop research plans through understanding, assessing, and documenting stated client business objectives
  • Manage new business: respond to requests, develop budgets, create proposals
  • Manage 8-10 projects simultaneously
  • Oversee projects, including implements quality control checks for documents along the research process (e.g., review of documents for accuracy/data checking, grammar, addressing key research questions/objectives, etc.)
• Develop new client relationships and build relationships with current clients
• Cultivate vendor relationships
• Develop detailed reports including key insights and strategic recommendations in a clear and compelling manner
• Work with Ogilvy teams and clients across marketing disciplines (e.g., public relations, advertising, etc.) and a wide variety of industries, categories, and topics

What You’ll Need 

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in related field (e.g., statistics, communications, social sciences like sociology, psychology, anthropology, etc.)
• 8-10 years related experience with established track record including experience working autonomously (mix of supplier, in-house and agency experience preferred)
• Strong project management, people management and business development skills
• Analytical skills with the ability to distill vast amounts of information into digestible concepts and demonstrate strategic and intelligent thinking
• Experience presenting information both verbally and in writing
• Solid business writing skills
• Experience creating personas or target audience profiles using syndicated survey data using MRI-Simmons, GWI, or Kantar Monitor
• Experience with PowerPoint, Keynote, Word, Excel ideal

How We’ll Support You

Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates. 

The base salary range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, click here for more details.