Sr. Associate Qualitative Insights

Material • Los Angeles, CA

1d • $28 - $30 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Associate, your primary role within the Strategy & Insights team is to provide support and ownership of day-to-day needs for custom qualitative projects, leading to high quality delivery of insights and related recommendations for a wide range of clients and categories.
Specific operations-oriented responsibilities include owning or overseeing organizational elements of project setup, supporting client communication and project updates, owning or providing contribution to fieldwork preparation and logistics, fieldwork support, contribution to analysis and reports, and supporting other ad-hoc project activities and/or long-term community projects as directed.
High attention to detail and accuracy, autonomy in self-management, creativity and flexibility. Ability 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.

Requirements

• High attention to detail and accuracy
• Autonomy in self-management
• Creativity and flexibility
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple competing deadlines and needs with limited senior oversite
• Critical thinking
• Strategic thinking
• Strong analysis
• Project management
• Pattern and problem identification orientation around solutions and point of view (POV)
• Ability to learn and adapt to cutting edge technologies to drive efficiency
• Deep curiosity about people (e.g., what motivates them, the why behind their decision making)
• Enjoy thinking critically about what things mean and how insights should be applied to problems and challenges
• Entrepreneurial spirit with a strong drive to do whatever it takes to make big impact for your team and clients
• Eye for details and make a conscious effort to understand the actual cause behind an occurrence
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities to meet multiple project timelines and client needs
• Project Management Skills: attention to detail, organization, and project tracking
• 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. And adaptability to new methodologies and technologies in the market research field

Nice To Haves

• Bachelors degrees and/or studies in a social science, communications, or business related field
• Minimum of 2 years work experience, preferably related

Responsibilities

• Owning or overseeing organizational elements of project setup
• Supporting client communication and project updates
• Owning or providing contribution to fieldwork preparation and logistics
• Fieldwork support
• Contribution to analysis and reports
• Supporting other ad-hoc project activities and/or long-term community projects as directed

Benefits

• On-the-job formal training through Material

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree