SENIOR DESIGN THINKER – BBVA INNOVATION OBSERVATORY IN MADRID recruitment
Requirements
- Degree in statistics, economics, social science or possesses other relevant training in data analysis methods such as advanced statistical analysis.
- 5+ years experience in strategic consulting across different industries with high level, large organization clients.
- Possesses 5+ years of experience working with both qualitative and quantitative methods, ideally in an integrated way. This includes managing larger scale research studies and writing surveys for different markets and industries
- Has experimented with and deployed new techniques of insight generation that are based on, but not bound by academic and traditional market research methodology. Ideally these new approaches would be experiential and visual in nature
-Is comfortable engaging internal and external stakeholders with a variety of expertise regarding research approach, design and methodology
- Has trained people within an organization to better understand methodology trade-offs
- Has applied all market research methods with a focus on generating actionable insights for business decision-making
Functions
- Replicate, refine and add to our novel research approaches and tailor them to the needs of our projects
- Work closely with project leaders, human factors specialists, and business design team members
- Be a generative design thinker working with project teams, as well as coach teams on timing and resource requirements of quantitative studies
- Support business development conversations with partners, especially senior market researchers, by championing our philosophy towards innovation research
- Independently manage the research work stream from start to finish
- Manage and collaborate with vendors and partners
- Analyze research data and then synthesize the information with teams by drawing out the relevant and actionable insights
- Help develop training materials to make research knowledge accessible throughout the company
- Have an entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to push our new approach further by researching and proposing new methods and vendors
- Be able to support multiple projects at any given time by providing quantitative and decision making method expertise
- Check in with internal clients when they are running research independently (attending focus groups, reviewing testing plans/protocols, facilitating the preparation of materials for testing)
- Be flexible in accommodating teams’ work plans and schedules.
Objectives
- Create visible and tangible strategies for innovation.
- Growing a research capability to support decision-making in our design work.
- Delivers insights to help refine designs, size business opportunities, and support getting our break-through concepts closer to market introduction.
- Deliver these goals by linking qualitative and quantitative research methods seamlessly and by working as an integral part of the project teams.
- To make current market research practice more innovative, and to develop new ones.
Project
- New Frameworks discovery and ideation