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MaPS - Director
San Francisco, CA or Los Angeles, CA
MaPS is seeking a market research professional with 3-5 years’ market research experience to join our team! This partner-track position will manage teams and help facilitate all phases of market research projects for high profile clients in a variety of industries. Ideal candidates for the Senior Consultant/Director role will have experience managing teams, a passion for quantitative data analysis, and have demonstrated success managing client partnerships.
What will I do?
As a Senior Consultant/Director, you will work on project teams of varying size to help facilitate all phases of market research projects. Specifically, you will:
• Oversee day-to-day activities of client engagements
• Manage all phases of a market research study, from questionnaire design and field management to reporting of results
• Coordinate team efforts around data interpretation and statistical analysis to identify key insights for clients
• Develop story-driven reports and client deliverables that synthesize market research data to meaningfully address client business objectives
• Manage and support the growth of junior team members
• Ensure overall quality of project processes and client deliverables
What are you looking for? Do I have what it takes?
Senior Consultants/Directors at MaPS should have 3-5 years of experience in market research, be comfortable working in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, and show a strong interest in wanting to solve problems through data-driven solutions. Additional requirements include:
• Bachelor’s Degree (Master’s a bonus) with superior academic credentials
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Proven analytic and problem-solving skills
• Excellent detail orientation and organization
• A passion and demonstrated aptitude for quantitative data analysis
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated success managing and cultivating strong client partnerships
Who is MaPS?
In 1994, senior partners from a major consulting firm saw an opportunity to serve clients differently. Marketing and Planning Systems (MaPS) was created to bring together the analytic talents of a management-consulting firm and elite statistical expertise to solve the most challenging marketing problems.
The MaPS model resonated with blue-chip Fortune 500 clients and the company grew in that mold. Over time, MaPS has maintained deep, long-term relationships with a select list of clients. Our first client remains with us today, 20 years later. In 2004, MaPS joined Millward Brown, giving us access to resources around the globe.
We have 100+ employees across many offices in major cities worldwide including Austin, Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Chennai, India. We remain a part of the Millward Brown family of companies as well as the Kantar and WPP network.
Millward Brown is one of the world's top 10 full-service market research firms with expertise in effective advertising, marketing communications, media and brand equity research. Millward Brown has more than 82 offices in 52 countries, working with 70% of the top 100 US advertisers and 90% of the top 100 global brands. Parent group Kantar is the data investment management arm of WPP and one of the world's largest insight, information and consultancy groups. By uniting the diverse talents of its 12 specialist companies, the group is the pre-eminent provider of compelling data and inspirational insights for the global business community. Its 30,000 employees work across 100 countries and across the whole spectrum of research and consultancy disciplines, enabling the group to offer clients business insights at every point of the consumer cycle. The group’s services are employed by over half of the Fortune Top 500 companies.
For additional details, please visit us on the web at www.millwardbrownanalytics.com.
Why clients choose MaPS
To continuously meet the needs of our clients, we leverage a broad range of experience and manage our business four basic principles:
• Build long-term, in-depth client relationships. We build long-term relationships with a select group of loyal clients, deeply understanding their businesses and earning our place as trusted advisor by leveraging our expertise to provide actionable insights.
• Provide a pragmatic business consulting approach. MaPS’s management consulting heritage guides our custom-designed approaches that draw strategic implications from business experience and deliver client-ready actionable insights.
• Utilize our breadth of experiences. Our value-oriented staffing model leverages hands-on senior management involvement, depth through the ranks, and cross-industry pollination of ideas and approaches to foster innovative solutions.
• Apply advanced statistical techniques. We use best-in-class market science approaches that stand up to internal scrutiny and provide a strong advisory foundation
Our employee value proposition
To execute on our customer value proposition, MaPS leverages a unique service delivery model.
While many firms over-leverage junior staff and use executives to put out fires, at MaPS, senior leaders sink their teeth into two or three large engagements, dedicating their talent to delivering value at each stage of the engagement. With the assistance of junior staff, MaPS senior leaders do the work – designing questionnaires, analyzing and synthesizing data, writing reports and responding to client requests. MaPS leaders are true market research experts who love the challenge of solving real client problems.
This unique service delivery model is highly valued by MaPS clients who pay a premium for our services and reward us with off-the-charts satisfaction and loyalty. MaPS executives, in turn, are personally-rewarded with compensation well above the industry average.
MaPS is a great fit if you are seeking to…
• Work in an entrepreneurial culture – not a “big company” culture.
• Develop custom solutions for clients – not just deliver pre-packaged solutions.
• Be considered a trusted advisor by your clients – not just another vendor.
• Help clients ask the right questions and solve critical problems – not just take client orders.
• Package results that tell a compelling story – not just editing boring report headlines.
• Sink your teeth into and deliver high value on a few large projects – not just having minimal involvement and firefighting on many small projects.
• Sell new projects by doing outstanding work and earning client referrals – not making slick sales pitches.
• Own client requests and using junior staff to help you solve the problem – not just serving as a middle-man who just passes client requests along to junior staff.
• Deliver value to your clients – not just schmooze them.
• Receive exceptional professional development – not just be expected to sink or swim.
• Be recognized for the merit of your work – not your number of years of experience.