Associate Director, Consulting
We are on the hunt for a multitalented Associate Director who shares our values and wants to help us make a big impact on our clients’ businesses, and the markets and communities they serve.
We are constantly on the lookout for ambitious strategists, researchers, creatives and innovators to build our culture and help our clients go further.
Welcoming diverse perspectives from every corner, our international team is united by shared values and an expansive mindset we call Further, together.
For us, brilliance is not the result of individual talents – it’s a collaboration. We bring our different skills and experiences together to solve our clients’ challenges. We motivate and support each other to learn and develop in our careers.
There are four values we live by – we call them The Yonder way. They guide how we work with our clients and each other, making this a special company to work for.
Job Content
In a nutshell
We are looking for an enthusiastic, energetic, quant-focused Associate to join our growing team. If you are a Research Intern or a Research Executive, currently working in a market research consultancy, and are hungry to make more of a personal impact in a fast-growing, successful agency then we need you.
Your skills & experience
You will have been a Research Executive / Market Research intern for the last 6-12 months, looking to progress to the next level within the next year or so. You would have been contributing to a wide range of research projects, demonstrating your outstanding written and verbal skills, excellent attention to detail and time management skills on a daily basis. You are interested in how research applies to business challenges and are keen on using your initiative to grow, develop and learn. Your team trust you and you will have the respect of your peers. But you want more.
The role
You will play a key part in proactively supporting the team at Yonder. Your specialism will be in quant insight but you will have an interest in everything else that we do and offer from strategy and branding to data analytics and design. You will be given responsibility from day one, liaising with clients, project management, as well as drafting questionnaires, reports and presentations. You will undertake desk research to support your proposals and client work. You will work alongside Yonder Data Solutions to test online and telephone surveys and you will play a key role in bringing our data to life through data visualisation.
What Yonder can offer you
Yonder has a real buzz as we continue to grow. We reward people who help to drive that growth and the company supports and encourages new ideas which will add value. We offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday (plus your birthday day off!), a 5% employer pension contribution, life assurance and other benefits like flexible working and 4pm finishes on Fridays.
In a nutshell
Yonder is a ground-breaking new consultancy bringing a blend of insight, strategy and imagination to clients across sectors and geographies. Our diverse expert team uses a blend of commercial acumen and creative thinking to transform performance in the areas that matter most. We are on the hunt for a multitalented Senior Consultant who shares our values and wants to help us make a big impact on our clients’ businesses, and the markets and communities they serve.
Your skills & experience
You must have an appetite for understanding how businesses run and have a proven ability to use brand to make an impact on business performance. You would have a strong working knowledge of large-scale rollout of brand strategy programmes which lead to business transformation or turnaround. This includes having an excellent track record of successful business development (both new and organic, through pitch support and proposal writing), financial fluency and strong commercial acumen. You demonstrate your outstanding written and verbal skills, excellent attention to detail and time management skills on a daily basis. Your clients trust you, your team trusts you and you will have the respect of your peers. But you want more.
The role
You will play a key part in proactively supporting the team at Yonder. Your specialism will be in brand strategy but you will have an interest in everything else that we do and offer from market research and insight to data analytics and design. You will be given responsibility from day one, working with the team to set the strategic vision on a project, as well as scoping and selling in new projects (i.e. challenging the brief, setting objectives, defining activities, deliverables, fees and timings). You will have an innovative outlook, finding ways to experiment, develop and test new product offerings, tools and approaches and you will use distilled insights to guide development of original ideas and points of view. You create compelling narrative arguments to sell in recommendations and you will have a creative flair, working with the Creative team to the creative work supports the strategy and agreed objectives. You will play a key role in kick-off meetings, review sessions and presentations and aspire to consistently achieve client satisfaction through encouraging yourself and others to produce outstanding work.
Essential skills
Overview:
Outstanding client work:
New business and long-term relationships:
What Yonder can offer you
Yonder has a real buzz as we continue to grow. We reward people who help to drive that growth and the company supports and encourages new ideas which will add value. We offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday (plus your birthday day off!), a 5% employer pension contribution, life assurance and other benefits like flexible working and 4pm finishes on Fridays.
In a nutshell
We are looking for an enthusiastic, energetic, quant-focused Senior Consultant to join our growing team. If you are currently a RM or a very experienced SRE ready for your next move, working in market research and are able to hit the ground running in our exciting, new consultancy, then we need you.
Your skills & experience
You would have been a newly promoted RM or a very experienced SRE, managing, contributing and conducting a wide range of research projects across different sectors, demonstrating your outstanding written and verbal skills, excellent attention to detail and time management skills on a daily basis. We are looking for someone who will take a leading role in producing high quality insight, writing and delivery of presentations to clients, and the development of client relationships. You are interested in how research applies to business challenges and are keen on using your initiative to grow, develop and learn. Your clients trust you, your team trust you and you will have the respect of your peers. But you want more.
The role
You will play a key part in proactively supporting the team at Yonder. Your specialism will be in quant insight but you will have an interest in everything else that we do and offer from strategy and branding to data analytics and design. You will be given responsibility from day one, drafting proposals, questionnaires, reports and delivering presentations. You will attend research debriefs and pitch meetings and present findings back to the client, allowing you to establish and build relationships with clients and manage research projects efficiently. You will work alongside Yonder Data Solutions to test online and telephone surveys and you will play a key role in bringing our data to life through data visualisation. You will have the opportunity to be client facing, whilst supporting the new business process.
What Yonder can offer you
Yonder has a real buzz as we continue to grow. We reward people who help to drive that growth and the company supports and encourages new ideas which will add value. We offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday (plus your birthday day off!), a 5% employer pension contribution, life assurance and other benefits like volunteering leave, flexible working and 4pm finishes on Fridays, etc.
In a nutshell
We are looking for an enthusiastic and curious Associate to work with us on reputation and corporate affairs-focussed research projects for a range of interesting and high-profile public and private sector clients. If you are a recent graduate or currently work in a junior role in a commercial environment where you enjoy making sense of data and events around you, and you have a strong interest in current affairs and social/political/economic trends, then we would like to hear from you.
Your skills & experience
You either already have some research experience (through university or previous role/s) or are interested in research. You have a broad range of interests, are curious about how the business world works and are keen to follow the current affairs and political trends that influence it. You demonstrate outstanding written and verbal skills, excellent attention to detail and time management skills. You want to learn how research applies to business challenges and have a strong desire to use your initiative to grow, develop and learn.
The role
You will play a key part in proactively supporting the team at Yonder. You will spend most of your time using research (whether quantitative, qualitative, or other forms of contextual information) to find answers to our clients’ questions or solve their problems, such as ‘how can I understand and respond to wider political / social / commercial trends?’, ‘how can I best achieve a policy objective?’, ‘how can I achieve a specific business/commercial objective’? or ‘how can I run an effective public campaign?’.
These research projects may focus on public opinion, stakeholder opinion (e.g. MPs, national journalists, leaders of influential third sector organisations etc.), demographic analysis, or other forms of data.
You will be given responsibility from day one, conducting interviews/focus groups, helping to draft questionnaires, discussion guides, reports and presentations. You will undertake desk research to support business proposals and client work. You will work alongside Yonder Data Solutions to test online and telephone surveys and you will play a role in bringing our data to life through reporting data visualisation. You will have the opportunity to be client facing, whilst supporting the new business process.
You will also have an interest in other things that we do and offer from brand strategy to advanced data analytics and design.
What Yonder can offer you
Yonder has a real buzz as we continue to grow. We reward people who help to drive that growth and the company supports and encourages new ideas which will add value. We offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday (plus your birthday day off!), a 5% employer pension contribution, life assurance and other benefits like volunteering leave, flexible working and 4pm finishes on Fridays.
In a nutshell
We are looking for an enthusiastic and curious Consultant to work with us on reputation and corporate affairs-focussed research projects for a range of interesting and high-profile public and private sector clients. If you are a Research Executive or Senior Research Executive, or currently work in a junior role in a commercial environment where you enjoy making sense of data and events around you, and you have a strong interest in current affairs and social/political/economic trends, then we would like to hear from you.
Your skills & experience
You would have been a mixed-methodology Research Executive for at least two years, or a Senior Research Executive or equivalent, and are ready to step into a Consultant role. You have a broad range of interests, are curious about how the business world works and follow the current affairs and political trends that influence it. You demonstrate outstanding written and verbal skills, can be trusted to manage projects independently, and have excellent attention to detail. You can creatively apply research to business challenges and use your initiative to grow, develop and learn.
The role
You will lead the day to day management of research projects focussed on issues relating to reputation and corporate affairs and will analyse data to help advise our clients at a strategic level. These research projects may focus on public opinion, stakeholder opinion (e.g. MPs, national journalists, leaders of influential third sector organisations etc.), demographic analysis, or other forms of data. You will play a key role in writing up, visualising, and presenting findings.
You will spend most of your time using research to find answers to our clients’ questions or solve their problems, such as ‘how can I understand and respond to wider political / social / commercial trends?’, ‘how can I best achieve a policy objective?’, ‘how can I achieve a specific business/commercial objective’? or ‘how can I run an effective public campaign?’.
You will be given responsibility from day one, managing various aspects of projects, conducting interviews and sometimes focus groups, drafting questionnaires, discussion guides, reports and presentations. You will undertake desk research to support business proposals and client work, and will be expected to regularly contribute ideas in meetings with colleagues.
You will also have an interest in other things that we do and offer from brand strategy to advanced data analytics and design.
What Yonder can offer you
Yonder has a real buzz as we continue to grow. We reward people who help to drive that growth and the company supports and encourages new ideas which will add value. We offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday (plus your birthday day off!), a 5% employer pension contribution, life assurance and other benefits like volunteering leave, flexible working and 4pm finishes on Fridays.
In a nutshell
We are looking for an enthusiastic, energetic, qual-focused Consultant to join our growing team. If you are a qual Senior Research Executive and are looking for a new challenge, in our exciting, new consultancy, then we need you.
Your skills & experience
You will have at least 2-3 years’ agency experience, working across a range of sectors and clients, and have excellent research, communication, and project management skills. You will have experience – and a keen interest – in leading edge, innovative approaches, but also be well versed in the ‘classics’. Your team trust you, and you will have the respect of your peers. But you want more.
The role
We need a Consultant to support the growth and add to the energy of our qual team. You will be responsible for end-to-end project management (with the support of the senior team), so someone who is organised and able to work on 2-3 projects at a time is a must.
Your role will primarily involve consumer research. We don’t expect you to work on only one sector or client – at Yonder you will work across a broad range of sectors and clients, both UK-based and international. You will have solid client management skills and be looking to develop these further, whilst supporting new business too.
We are looking for a confident qual practitioner who can write discussion guides and screeners with minimal supervision. You will have experience in conducting depth interviews and ideally will have group moderation experience. With Yonder you will have an opportunity to be involved in a range of qualitative research approaches and techniques, from focus groups through to online communities, lifelogging, social media analysis and workshops.
And ultimately we are looking for someone who loves qualitative research and understand the value that it can bring! Whether that’s because you love engaging with consumers, supporting clients to reach their business goals, or because you love the variety that qual brings.
What Yonder can offer you
Yonder has a real buzz as we continue to grow. We reward people who help to drive that growth and the company supports and encourages new ideas which will add value. We offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday (plus your birthday day off!), a 5% employer pension contribution, life assurance and other benefits like volunteering leave, flexible working and 4pm finishes on Fridays.
In a nutshell
We are looking for an enthusiastic, energetic, qual-focused Senior Consultant to join our growing team. If you are a qual Research Manager or Senior Research Manager looking for a new challenge, in our exciting, new consultancy, or a Senior Research Executive looking to take a step up, then we need you.
Your skills & experience
You will have at least 4 years’ agency experience, working across a range of sectors and clients, and have excellent research, communication, and client management skills. You will have experience – and a keen interest – in leading edge approaches, but also be well versed in the ‘classics’. Your team trust you, and you will have the respect of your peers. But you want more.
The role
We need a Senior Consultant to support the growth and add to the energy of our qual team. You will manage, design and deliver research projects (with the backing of the senior team) across a broad range of sectors and clients, both UK-based and international. Yonder’s current qual client roster includes BT, The Department of Education, Ofcom, Mastercard, Square Enix, Toyota, Costa and many more.
You will have a leading role across the entire project lifecycle, from writing proposals and attending pitches through to writing and presenting engaging debriefs. You will use a range of qualitative research approaches and techniques, from focus groups through to online communities, life-logging and social media analysis. You will be the key client contact on your projects, and will work closely with the senior team to develop client relationships and uncover new business opportunities.
What Yonder can offer you
Yonder has a real buzz as we continue to grow. We reward people who help to drive that growth and the company supports and encourages new ideas which will add value. We offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday (plus your birthday day off!), a 5% employer pension contribution, life assurance and other benefits like volunteering leave, flexible working and 4pm finishes on Fridays.
In a nutshell
We are looking for a multitalented strategy Director to join us. If you are a Director or an experienced AD looking to move up to Director level, are genuinely passionate about brands and brand strategy, and are able to hit the ground running in our exciting, new consultancy, then we need you.
You’re someone who must have an appetite for understanding how businesses run and have a proven ability to use brand to make an impact on their performance. With an acute eye and natural flair for finding opportunities, you are flexible, rigorous and resourceful and adept at establishing valuable long-term relationships.
Your skills & experience
You would have extensive business experience, either client or consultancy side. You have a solid working knowledge of large-scale rollout of brand strategy programmes, leading to business transformation. You are fluent in research disciplines, either coming from a research background yourself or adept at integrating research into strategy programmes. You are used to building strong client relationships, generating revenue and developing business, whilst delivering great work. As well as being a great storyteller (going well beyond PowerPoint), your financial fluency and strong commercial acumen makes you a force to reckon with. Your clients will trust you and you will have the respect of your peers. But you want more.
The role
We need a Director to add to the experience of the team. You will play a key role in driving the business forward by:
Consistently delivering excellent work
Building Client Value
Building Yonder
What Yonder can offer you
Yonder has a real buzz as we continue to grow. We reward people who help to drive that growth and the company supports and encourages new ideas which will add value. We offer a competitive salary, 30 days holiday (plus your birthday day off!), a 5% employer pension contribution, life assurance and other benefits like flexible working and 4pm finishes on Fridays.
We are on the hunt for a multitalented Associate Director who shares our values and wants to help us make a big impact on our clients’ businesses, and the markets and communities they serve.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, energetic, qual-focused Associate Director to join our growing team. If you are an experienced qual Research Manager or Senior Research Manager looking for a new challenge, or you are a current Associate Director looking for a new opportunity in our exciting new consultancy, then we need you.
We are on the hunt for a multitalented strategy Director who shares our values and wants to help us make a big impact on our clients’ businesses, and the markets and communities they serve.
Yonder is a ground-breaking consultancy bringing a blend of insight, strategy and imagination to clients across sectors and geographies. Our diverse expert team uses commercial acumen and creative thinking to transform performance in the areas that matter most.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and curious Senior Consultant to work for our Research Practice on corporate affairs and government-focussed research projects for a range of interesting and high-profile public and private sector clients.
If you are a Research Manager, an AD or equivalent with an established track record of delivering client work to the highest standard, and you have a strong interest in consumer projects and customer understanding, then we would like to hear from you.
Yonder has a real buzz as we continue to grow. We reward people who help to drive that growth and the company supports and encourages new ideas which will add value. We offer a competitive salary, a discretionary bonus, at least 25 days holiday (plus your birthday day off!), a 5% employer pension contribution, private medical insurance, life assurance, income protection, wellbeing allowance, enhanced parenting leave pay, and other benefits like flexible working and 4pm finishes on Fridays, etc.
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