Research Program Manager

Research Program Manager, Research Excellence Responsibilities:

• Analyze Marketing Insights emerging opportunities and skill gaps and prioritize key issues and opportunities
• Engage, partner, and collaborate with research team members and leadership to proactively identify opportunities to leverage programming to radically improve the effectiveness of our research and impact of our team
• Demonstrate best-in-class internal communications execution that others will replicate
• Move initiatives forward, find resources, raise concerns to appropriate owners early and resolve open issues that prevent progress
• Contribute to overall Marketing Insights Program infrastructure, updating processes and tools and initiating improvements where needed
• Develop and manage trusted, cooperative relationship with cross-functional partners
  

Minimum Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree or higher
• 8+ years of market research experience
• 5+ years of strategic-focused experience in program management/organizational behavior, L&D, and/or operations
• Experience identifying pain points and opportunities, designing and implementing strategic programs that yield business results, and scaling operations in a business context
• Experience leveraging communications to influence horizontally, cross functionally, and among executives
• Experience applying organized/structured approach to managing complex logistics
• Experience building cross functional relationships and leading collaborations
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with marketing teams
• Experience/training in organizational behavior
• Experience working in or with large, fast-paced organizations with frequent cross functional collaboration
• Vendor management experience
• Experience working on research in-house (vs agency)
• Experience leading learning and development trainings, coaching sessions