Director Quantitative Insights - Global Tracking

Director Quantitative Insights - Global Tracking

This role is to be based near one of our offices in New York City, Los Angeles, Oakland or Austin.

About us

We drive intelligent growth for ambitious businesses and leading brands. 

Customer understanding is more potent and drives greater value when insights go to work directly within marketing and experience priorities. To give our clients that advantage, we put an insights-driven operating system at the core of our design, go-to-market and digital experience solutions.  

Material clients make smarter growth choices because they can see clearly how and when to take the shots that count. Together, we connect consumer intelligence with customer demand generation to build lasting, profitable relationships.

About the Director role

As a Director, Global Tracking, you will have a passion for client management and a desire to lead. As a senior-level leader, you’ll wear many hats—you’ll conduct research, manage projects, and mentor your team—while working closely with Fortune 500 clients and in partnership with department leaders. 

We believe you’re only as strong as your team, and we’re looking for a new team member who is energized by growing, developing, and inspiring others! Here you will set your sights on personal and group development—whether that means growing your team, becoming a director, or running your own business unit. Your success is our success.

As a Director, you will

• Act as a thought partner to our clients, educating them about every step of the process, while developing trust and building lasting relationships. 
• Manage data collection, processing, tabulation, analysis, and reporting, and use your findings to translate complexity into compelling stories. 
• Advise junior employees and share responsibility for their growth and development. 
• Lead project activities while achieving excellent financial results. 
• Strategize at a high level alongside other Material business leaders. 
• Influence and advise business decisions and learn and adapt to ground breaking technologies that drive efficiency. 
• Work with the programming, design, data collection, marketing, and data science teams. With an abundance of internal resources, you’ll have the support you need to focus on your areas of expertise

About you

• You have a bachelor’s degree and 7-10 years of professional experience in a related field
• Willing to coordinate and lead daily team activities
• Able to provide immediate supervision to direct reports which includes assigning tasks, checking work and maintaining schedules
• Willing to spend a portion of your time performing the work of those you supervise
• You want to grow your career as a manager—maybe you’ve managed a bit in the past and hope to continue building that skill.
• You’ve conducted market research, and your curiosity and determination to dig in to understand an occurrence or observation and draw out rich insights. And you double-check the details.
• You have the passion to experiment outside of your comfort zone, especially when it makes your team stronger and helps you all learn.
• You thrive in collaboration with others and can also self-motivate and self-manage when the job calls for it.
• You understand that managing sometimes means taking on a range of different tasks to help the group succeed.
• You keep your team and projects on track. You have passion and skills for prioritizing, delegating, and sticking to a timeline, and when priorities shift, you have the confidence to make strategic decisions and manage multiple projects and deadlines at once.
• You’re an analytical, strategic problem solver with strong eye for business, and you want to keep stretching and developing those parts of your brain.
• You know how to foster and create a delightful client experience, and you handle the ups and downs of client work with enthusiasm.
• You’ve earned a Bachelor’s or Master’s in social sciences, business, economics, or a related field.

Why work for Material?

• Material is a global company and we work with best-of-class brands worldwide.  We also create and launch new brands and products, putting innovation and value creation at the center of our practice. Our clients are in the top of their class, across industry sectors from technology to retail, transportation, finance and healthcare.
• Material employees join a peer group of exceptionally talented colleagues across the company, the country, and even the world. We develop capabilities, craft and leading-edge market offerings across seven global practices including strategy and insights, design, data & analytics, technology and tracking. Our engagement management team makes it all hum for clients.
• A community focused on learning and making an impact. Material is an outcomes focused company. We create experiences that matter, create new value and make a difference in our clients' lives and their customers' lives.

Pay Range: $100,000.00 - $115,000.00

The rate shown represents a relevant range currently in use at Material. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work itself. 

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