As a Director, you’ll lead high-impact innovation projects end-to-end—from identifying opportunities through trends and insights to shaping concepts, testing prototypes, and guiding commercial success. You’ll play a pivotal role in:

• Winning and growing client relationships across FMCG and related sectors
• Leading strategic innovation projects and delivering exceptional results
• Moderating innovation research – including focus groups, in-home interviews, and concept testing sessions
• Facilitating dynamic workshops and sprints to co-create and refine ideas
• Crafting product briefs and collaborating with R&D and technical teams
• Applying AI tools and techniques – including prompt engineering, analysis, and automation – to enhance the innovation process

You’ll join a high-calibre, director-only team that values curiosity, collaboration, and impact.

• Proven track record in leading front-end consumer product innovation projects
• Expertise in moderating qualitative research (e.g. JTBD interviews, concept clinics, ethnographic methods)
• Experience identifying whitespace opportunities and developing winning concepts
• Strong communication and facilitation skills – in-person and digital
• Comfort working independently and collaboratively across a senior team
• Working proficiency with AI – e.g. crafting prompts, conducting insight analysis, streamlining creative development

• Be part of a dynamic, award-winning innovation consultancy doing meaningful work for major brands
• Gain autonomy and influence as a senior member of a nimble, experienced team
• Work on diverse, cutting-edge projects at the intersection of brand, consumer, and innovation
• Thrive in a culture that blends creativity, rigour, and experimentation – including smart use of AI tools

🔗 Ready to lead innovation that actually launches?

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Operating internationally, the company provides research and insight services that help businesses make better decisions through data.

They specialise in market intelligence, competitor analysis, and sector-specific research across industries such as finance, private equity, FMCG, and healthcare.

This high-impact role combines strategic client advisory, advanced quantitative research, and team leadership across multiple sectors. If you’re driven by data, insight, and commercial outcomes – and want to shape strategies that matter – this is your chance to step into a pivotal leadership position with global reach.

Key attributes of the successful Research Director include:

• Deep expertise in quantitative research methods
• Strong commercial mindset with a history of hitting revenue targets
• Proven leadership in within a market research setting, with experience of working across multiple sectors

This firm is a strategic analytics consultancy that combines AI, data science, and commercial insight. They specialise in developing advanced analytics solutions for clients in industries such as finance, retail, private equity, public sector, etc.

As the Senior Manager (Data Science), you will lead a team of data scientists and analysts to develop data-driven solutions that drive business decisions and strategic initiatives.

This role will be heavy on the client-facing side, where you will oversee the end-to-end data science lifecycle, from scoping out client needs to deploying ML models.

Key attributes of the suitable Senior Manager (Data Science) include:

• At least 5+ years of commercial data science experience
• Experience within consulting, especially in sectors like Financial Services, Retail, Tech, Public Sector, etc.
• Strong communication skills with experience in dealing with both technical and non-technical stakeholders