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London, Greater London
Research Lead, UK Business
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Job Description
We are bold thinkers and standout innovators who motivate each other to explore new frontiers in an environment that supports and inspires us to always be better. By pushing the boundaries of technology - and each other to surpass these boundaries - we create seeds of learning that become the catalyst for the world's innovations, personal and global, large and small. Ideal candidates should have a contagious passion for research - as well as a keen interest in our mission and business - empowering progress through lifelong learning. Position Purpose: We are looking for a highly experienced insights and strategy consultant to partner with our UK business, setting the research agenda and providing insights to support the go-to-market positioning and strategy and new product and service investment. You will partner closely with the senior leadership team, having a "seat at the table" with senior leaders to build the necessary insights to facilitate decision making. You MUST be a master storyteller, a persuasive communicators, and be able to get beyond the mechanics of running research projects. Reporting directly to the US-based, VP, Global Research & Insights, you will be a key leader and part of a centralized function with a dotted line to a specific business unit and will be responsible for building partner recommendations through market and industry analysis, customer insights, competitive assessment, and market research. You will be expected to identify cross functional needs around the organization to help break down siloes and curate insights in a way that are relevant to the different functional teams. Note that because this position is based in London, which is also our global headquarters, you will expected to be highly visible. This is a senior, strategic role, that requires a lot of confidence in analyzing and synthesizing insights on the fly, with facetime in front of our C-level, at conferences and investors. This person has to be good at observing not just findings from various research projects, but also in reading and listening and understanding what is happening in our business across geographies and business units. The person has to be confident in their ability to look beyond specific research projects and actually give our senior leaders advice across the business both formally and informally. We are looking for someone who can confidently talk about different methodologies, both qualitative and quantitative as well as advanced analytics - and the right scenarios by which to use which methodology to solve a particular business problem, but still be able to talk about research in a way that the uninitiated can understand the rigor behind what we do, without getting stuck in the weeds. This person must have experience in training and building high-performing teams to do the same. This is an exciting, newly established role that will play a huge part in growing Pearson's culture as an insights-led organization and input to the overall Pearson strategic direction. Because this will be a newly formed organization, you should be comfortable in a startup environment, and be willing to roll up your sleeves and wear multiple, everchanging hats as we get the new function up and running.