Director, Future Strategy & Innovation

Future Strategy and Innovation Full Time Remote

Dig Insights unites strategy, human understanding, and technology to help brands move decisively, in a world thatwon’twait. We work with insights and marketing professionals at some of the world’s most well-loved brands, powering their brand and innovation decision-making. Dig One is our agile technology platform, used by our people and our clients, to deliver smarter and faster decisions.

Our clients span verticals including CPG, QSR, retail, technology, financial services, and telecommunications. Our work is led by a team of over 250 strategists,insights consultants, developers, and data scientists. We work for a global client base out of offices in Toronto, Chicago, London, and Singapore.

Since we started in 2010,we’vebeen focused on setting a new standard for the insights industry – challenging the traditional model and building for what comes next. That means hiring people who are bright, creative, resourceful, and kind. People who succeed at Dig are curious, questionestablishednorms and are passionate about helping our clientsto movetheir businesses forward. If you want to join a team that takes themselves just seriously enough to produce great work,we’dlove to welcome you.

As we continue to grow, both geographically and in our expertise, we are looking for people who want to join a high-growth and highly collaborative company.

This role is open to candidates across the U.S. and Canada.

About the role

Your primary responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

Business Development

• Supporting the sales process through proposal development, includingmethodologydesign, costing,scheduling and design considerations
• Developing andmaintainingclient relationships whileidentifyinggrowth opportunities within existing accounts and consulting/participating in the selling process

Leadership

• Providing advice, guidance and counselling to Analysts and Managers, including assessment and identification of training needs
• Create workplans for junior staff that are supporting your projects
• Thought partner to your VP inidentifyingnew types of projects or deliverables the team could sell
• The ability to create new styles of report templates (in collaboration with the VP)
• Helping toidentifynew sales opportunities for the team

Project Management

• Overseeing project management in its entirety ensuring timely, quality deliverables according to project design
• Coordinate and collaborate with cross-functional teams in qualitative and quantitative research to develop innovative solutions that address future needs and challenges for clients and innovate internally on how we do integrated deliverables.
• Conducts a structured approach for completing work and solving client challenges that is well communicated to the VP
• Feels comfortable and confident working in a high pace work environment
• Works fast and efficiently and can juggle multiple projects at one time as an individual contributor

Research & Reporting

• Invest the time necessary to develop an intimate knowledge of the client’s business to understand whatimpact the research, insights and recommendations will have upon it.
• Tie in client documents to the final trend findings
• Monitor a variety of sources toidentifytrends and opportunity spaces. From Instagram, blogs and online experts to books, magazines, and the intellectual products of trade/industry conferences.
• Train yourself on our suite of trend tools to make your workload both more efficient and get to deeper insights
• Conduct research and analysis toidentifyemerging trends andanticipatefuture challenges in various industries and sectors. Develop an outline and turn your findings into a synthesized report.
• Leading the team by guiding data analysis and results communication to ensure projects are delivered with excellence
• Analyzing results and creating a "story" that delivers insightful,strategic and actionable answers for clients
• Provide strategic recommendations thatdemonstrateclear ties to the client’s business.
• Excel at ideation with surfacing novel yet highly relevant innovations for the client’s consideration
• Translate research/insights into workshop materials that can beleveragedduring…