CarbonSix is seeking a Market Research Senior Strategist to join the team!
About CarbonSix:
CarbonSix is a rapidly growing global market research consultancy that uses
customer insights to create next-generation healthcare brands through a
combination of social-science rigor, creativity, and go-to-market experience. We
offer strategic research and counsel at every stage of the product lifecycle: from
early pipeline to sustaining mature brands. By partnering with our clients to
anticipate and manage risk in a competitive and rapidly changing marketplace we
help them develop powerful, sustainable next-generation brands.
Job Summary
This position is primarily responsible for client development and management,
and leading custom market research study projects on behalf of organizations in
the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare industry; this includes primary market
research utilized for strategic planning purposes. This position works closely with
clients, project directors and project managers in all phases of market research,
including qualitative research, such as focus groups and ethnographic research,
and quantitative research, such as online and telephone studies by performing
the following duties.
Job Responsibilities
 Designs and conducts qualitative and quantitative market research projects
for pharmaceutical and healthcare clients
 Works directly with clients to understand their information and business
needs
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 Cultivates and extends existing client relationships, including business
development activities
 Becomes a trusted advisor, knowledge expert and critical client contact.
 Drives facts to findings and develops a significant number of conclusions
and implications
 Contributes strategic thinking and actionable client solutions, including
creating strategies for clients to be reviewed and supported by Senior
Executives
 Crafts proposals, including research objectives, scope and budgets
 Develops and designs qualitative and quantitative market research studies
for clients including construction of questionnaires and discussion guides
 Develops insights into the data findings, helps relate data findings to
general research objectives and business issues raised by the client.
 Creates logical, clear final deliverables and obtains timely review of
deliverables by Senior Advisors
 Delivers client-ready reports with findings, implications, opportunities and
recommendations
 Creates analytical plan for data
 Manages projects including budget responsibility
 Evaluates recruiting and data integrity and develops appropriate validity
checks
 Moderates own interviews with physicians, other medical professionals,
patients and payers in both one-on-one and focus group settings when
necessary
 Develops and trains Strategists to become Senior Strategists
 Maintains and increases professional and technical knowledge by attending
workshops, reviewing professional publications and establishing personal
internal company networks as well as external networks
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Job Requirements
 Master's degree or equivalent; or five to ten years related experience
and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
 To perform this job successfully, an individual should have proficiency with
Internet Software; Spreadsheet Software (Excel); Word Processing Software
(Word); Presentation Software (PowerPoint) and Electronic Mail Software
(Outlook).
 Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to gain the
trust of Clients
 Excellent judgment and discretion; ability to handle multiple priorities
simultaneously, meet deadlines, and handle work-related stress is required.
 Friendly, courteous, professional, outgoing, and Client service-oriented.
 Must be able to work independently and productively with minimum
supervision.
 Recognize problems, identify possible causes and resolve routine problems.
 Team player with a "can do" attitude that can work in a fast-paced
environment.
 Ability to establish and maintain professional atmosphere for employees,
and Clients
 Ability to identify key business problems and develop a thorough
understanding of client business, competitors, end users, etc.
 Ability to think conceptually; has ability to logically define information
needs, drive facts to findings / insights, understand client organization and
issues, help design research plan and analysis, contribute to strategic
thinking, and create actionable solutions.
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