Sr. Associate Insights

material; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Material is a global company driving intelligent growth for top brands. This Senior Associate, Insights role supports day-to-day research engagements, builds questionnaires, manages field operations, and ensures high-quality data and insights.

You will contribute to deliverables with strong analysis, synthesis, and POVs, while working with cross-functional teams and senior leaders. Training and development opportunities are available within Material.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Economics, Social Sciences, Psychology, Statistics, or related field.
• Minimum of 2 years of market research experience.
• Experience with basic market research concepts and methods.
• Entrepreneurial spirit with drive to impact clients and team.

Responsibilities

• Provide support for day-to-day needs of medium to high complexity research engagements, ensuring high-quality insights and recommendations.
• Develop and publish questionnaires; conduct data QC and field management with internal teams and partners.
• Produce deliverables including slides, charts, and data QC with involvement in synthesis and writing.
• Demonstrate attention to detail, autonomy, and the ability to manage multiple deadlines.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Communication skills

Project management

Team player

Curiosity and learning mindset

Strategic thinking

Attention to detail

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Outlook

Word

Job description

Senior Associate, Insights

This is a hybrid role to be based near one our offices in Los Angeles, Austin or New York City

About Us

We drive intelligent growth for ambitious businesses and leading brands.

Customer understanding is more potent and drives greater value when insights go to work directly within marketing and experience priorities. To give our clients that advantage, we put an insights-driven operating system at the core of our design, go-to-market and digital experience solutions.

Material clients make smarter growth choices because they can see clearly how and when to take the shots that count. Together, we connect consumer intelligence with customer demand generation to build lasting, profitable relationships.

Job Description

As a Senior Associate of Insights, your primary role within the Strategy & Insights team is to provide support and ownership of day-to-day needs associated with medium to high complexity research engagements, leading to high quality delivery of insights and related recommendations for a wide range of clients and categories.

Specific operations-oriented responsibilities include, but are not limited to, questionnaire development and publishing support, link testing and data QC, field management with internal teams/field partners, data running / tabulation, field management with internal teams/field partners, and addressing quality control issues throughout the project lifecycle.

External-oriented responsibilities are focused on creation and support of building deliverables including slide creation, charting and data QC with direct involvement in writing and synthesis.

High attention to detail and accuracy, autonomy in self-management, creativity and flexibility is required. Must be able to manage and prioritize multiple competing deadlines and needs with limited senior oversite.

Skills required for success include critical thinking, strategic thinking, strong analysis, project management and pattern and problem identification orientation around solutions and point of view (POV). Ability to learn and adapt to cutting edge technologies to drive efficiency.

You will be mentored by senior leadership and receive on-the-job formal training through Material.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree is required preferably in Marketing, Business, Economics, Social Sciences, Psychology, Statistics, or related field.
• Minimum of 2 years of market research experience required. Quantitative or Mixed-Methods Insights experience preferred.
• Experience and understanding of basic concepts of market research.
• You possess an entrepreneurial spirit with a strong drive to do whatever it takes to make a big impact for your team and clients.
• You have a strong eye for detail and make a conscious effort to understand the actual cause behind an occurrence.
• You possess a high level of accountability.
• You have a high level of initiative and an interest in growing as a manager and leader.
• You have a positive attitude and a strong desire to grow your career.
• You can adapt to changing priorities to meet multiple project timelines and client needs.
• You are a strategic and critical thinker with basic business acumen.
• You thrive in a team environment but also can perform independently.
• Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to collect, analyze, and interpret complex data sets.
• Attention to Detail: Excellent attention to detail to ensure accuracy in data collection, analysis, and reporting.
• Communication Skills: Effective verbal and written communication skills to present research findings in a clear and concise manner.
• Technical Proficiency: Experience using Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Team Player: Ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment and effectively manage multiple projects while meeting deadlines.
• Curiosity and Learning Mindset: Demonstrated curiosity, willingness to learn, openness to sharing, receiving, asking for, and applying feedback. Adaptability to new methodologies and technologies in the market research field.

Why work for Material?

Material is a global company and we work with best-of-class brands worldwide. We also create and launch new brands and products, putting innovation and value creation at the center of our practice. Our clients are in the top of their class, across industry sectors from technology to retail, transportation, finance and healthcare.

Material employees join a peer group of exceptionally talented colleagues across the company, the country, and even the world. We develop capabilities, craft and leading-edge market offerings across seven global practices including strategy and insights, design, data & analytics, technology and tracking. Our engagement management team makes it all hum for clients.

A community focused on learning and making an impact. Material is an outcomes focused company. We c reate experiences that matter, create new value and make a difference in our clients