Senior Research Director​/Research Director

As a Senior Research Director / Research Director with the Blue Matter Insights team, you will join a firm with a dynamic and growing team of seasoned market research consultants and have the opportunity to help grow and build the company. Working collaboratively with internal and client team members, your remit is to address critical business issues in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals and deliver value through providing innovative and actionable insights and solutions to our clients.

Blue Matter Consulting is a marketing consultancy focused primarily on the biopharmaceutical industry. We partner with our clients to help them achieve commercial success across the lifecycle of their products, portfolios and organizations.

Through our US based primary market research team, we work regionally and globally throughout the enterprise to address critical business issues and deliver evidence to inform insight and data-driven decisions. Ultimately, we are dedicated to supporting our clients who are doing the work that really matters — extending and improving human lives. Our role in helping our clients accomplish this mission — that’s what fuels our commitment.

We have a unique entrepreneurial culture and invest in building Blue Matter as a best place to work for our team. We have a strong presence across our seven offices – Mumbai, Zurich, London, Berlin, New York, Boston and San Francisco.

• Successfully oversees and execute all aspects of the primary market research process – proposal design, research design; screener / questionnaire / discussion guide development; data collection, analysis and synthesis; and report creation and presentation
• Participate in project scoping and planning discussions and to develop of market research proposals in collaboration with an Associate Principal or Principal
• Employ a broad range of quantitative and/or qualitative research methodologies and tools to address client business objectives
• Manage timelines and budgets; coordinate with relevant parties (internal team, external clients, contractors and vendors) to ensure timely and efficient project delivery
• Write reports and collaborate on key insights and recommendation development in conjunction with project team
• Line management: prioritize workload and liaise with team members to ensure workload is appropriate and that deadlines are met; supervise professional development, set personal objectives and handle the training and development of junior members of staff

• Independent discussion guide design that demonstrates a clear understanding of client business and research objectives
• Analysis and interpretation of diverse qualitative data sets including US and global patient and HCP interviews
• Moderate interviews with a range of HCP specialties and with patients
• Present final reports to client core and cross functional teams
• Run a wide range of US and global project types such as patient journey, positioning, communications testing, TPP evaluation, market landscape, drivers/barriers, etc

• Research design and methodology that addresses client business and research objectives
• Independent questionnaire design that demonstrates a clear understanding of client business and research objectives
• Analysis and interpretation of diverse quantitative data sets including US and global patient and HCP respondents
• Recommend and incorporate advanced analytics into questionnaire and reports; partner with statisticians on design and analysis, interpret advanced analytics such as Max Diff, TURF, conjoint
• Manage fieldwork and propose appropriate sample composition
• Oversee programming, tabulation, coding, and charting work streams to ensure alignment of tasks with project…