Quantitative Research Director

Adelphi Group; Bollington; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company laptop

Free‑gym membership

Health insurance (taxable)

Pension benefits

Job summary

Adelphi Research, part of Adelphi Group (an Omnicom Healthcare Company), is seeking a Director to lead strategic client relationships and oversee the design and delivery of high‑quality insights for pharma clients.

Based at our Bollington HQ in the UK with potential for some remote work, this role requires travel across Europe to deliver for clients, and a track record of growing accounts while guiding a multidisciplinary delivery team.

Qualifications

• Degree level required (2:1 minimum) with potential advanced qualification (MSc/PhD/MBA).
• 10+ years market research experience, ideally in an agency environment; client-side experience desirable.
• Significant healthcare/pharmaceutical research experience with track record of client growth and delivering on financial goals.
• Experience across all research approaches; proven credibility in at least one area.
• Desirable: foreign languages.

Responsibilities

• Design, manage and deliver all client‑commissioned work.
• Create and present high‑quality insights and maintain client excitement across relationships.
• Contribute across the full range of MR tools and techniques to answer client questions.
• Play a key role in the management team and shape the company direction.
• Lead client management, win new business and model strong leadership for the team.
• Aim for sales and profit targets tied to client growth.
• Deliver work spanning qualitative and quantitative methods with big‑picture thinking.
• Mentor team members to ensure ongoing impact of work.

Skills

Client management

BD skills

Leadership

Research design

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree (2:1)

Advanced qualification (MSc/PhD/MBA)

Job description

Agency

Adelphi

Job Function

Strategy and Planning

Job Subfunction

Research and Insights

Job Description

Director at Adelphi Research, part of Adelphi Group (an Omnicom Healthcare Company).

Job Location: Based in our HQ office in Bollington, Cheshire, UK with potential for some remote working for the right candidate. Must have ability and willingness to travel widely within Europe, as required to deliver to clients.

About Adelphi Research: Adelphi Research is a leading market research-based consultancy with a focus purely on the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors. For over 25 years, we have partnered with most of the world’s leading Pharmaceutical Companies to design and deliver research solutions that generate meaningful insights and inspire commercial decision making.

From our HQ offices in the UK and USA, we provide global research coverage, with the majority of our projects being multi-country in nature, including a mix of Western Europe and the Nordics, North America, South America, Australia, China and Japan. We are increasingly delivering research projects with coverage of the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Russia.

The role: Due to successful client growth an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Director to join Adelphi Research.

A strategic position focused on building and managing client relationships through the design and delivery of high quality, strategic insight. Most suited to a business-minded leader with extensive pharmaceutical market research experience, who wishes to impact the shape and future of our business.

Responsibilities

• You will be excited by the prospect of designing, managing and delivering all aspects of work commissioned by our clients.
• Have a constant eye on creating and presenting high quality insights – putting spark into research opportunities with new clients and maintaining excitement and freshness in relationships with existing clients.
• May have a particular talent in a specific area of market research, but are conversant across the full range of tools and techniques we use to address our clients’ business questions.
• Will want to play an important role in our wider management team, and be highly engaged in shaping our direction.
• Reporting directly to a member of our Leadership Team (LT) you will be heavily involved in leading the business through great client management, winning new business with existing and new clients, and being a role model for the wider team.
• In conjunction with securing and growing clients, there are sales and profit targets associated with this role because of its importance to our business success.
• The scope of work we deliver for our clients spans a range of qualitative and quantitative approaches. Big picture thinking is essential to make what we learn actionable.
• Mentoring talent within the team is critical to ensuring we continuously deliver impact from our work.

Core Competencies

• Company and Client Management
  • Lead / master in an area that is organisationally beneficial (change programmes, therapy area experts, supporting one of the business workstreams, etc.).
  • Confident and proactive at BD skills, owning client accounts and contributing to a wider breadth of accounts.
  • Lead for allocated clients, ensuring influx of business.
  • Identify new business opportunities and gain meetings to build relationships that deliver RFPs.
  • Develop key accounts.
  • Design and produce outstanding / winning client proposals.
  • Achieve financial goals.
  • Develop long‑term commercial plans for the business / your accounts.
  • Excellent communication skills.
• Research and Delivery Expertise
  • Proficient in the design of high-level custom qualitative and quantitative studies, with significant expertise in at least one area.
  • Strong analytical skills and report design.
  • Create and deliver visually impactful and action-focused presentations and reports with clear strategic guidance, efficiently and profitably.
  • Communicate your thinking with clarity to clients.
  • Lead project teams by providing clear guidance and direction.
  • Confident to foresee / avoid / manage problems and provide solutions.
• People Management
  • Understanding of, and input into, personal development of all members of staff.
  • Specific mentoring and career development responsibilities for direct reports.
  • Skillful in providing both positive and critical feedback.
  • A positive role model across the whole business driving team engagement and motivation.

Qualifications And Experience

• Degree level qualified (2:1 as a minimum in a relevant area), ideally with a relevant advanced qualification (e.g. MSc, PhD, MBA).
• 10+ years of market research experience, ideally within an agency environment. Client-side experience also desirable.
• Significant healthcare/pharmaceutical research experience with proven track record of client growth and delivery on financial goals.
• Experience across all research approaches, but able to demonstrate expertise and client credibility in at least one area.
• Expertise and experience in specific therapy areas.
• Foreign languages are desirable.

Package

Adelphi Research offers a competitive remuneration package consisting of base salary, quarterly performance‑based bonus and car allowance.

If you have expertise in advanced quantitative research (e.g. segmentation, conjoint, etc.) and/or have strength and significant experience in oncology or haematology then this experience will be reflected in your package.

Additional Benefits

• Company laptop
• Free‑gym membership (based at our office)
• Health insurance (taxable benefit)
• Pension benefits

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in‑office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in‑office attendance.

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