Fors Marsh

Fors Marsh

Senior Account Director, Public Service Recruitment Research (Chicago, IL)

Chicago, IL · Director

Work authorization required$190k-$225kDetected 1 day ago
Brand StrategyBusiness DevelopmentCustomer SupportResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingCritical Thinking

About the role

  • include: Organizational Representation - Represent team/Fors Marsh across wide variety of meetings and working groups.
  • Position Fors Marsh to address long-term needs.
  • Research Translation - Effectively translate research to meet agency and client needs.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in marketing, communication, social science, psychology, or a related field.
  • Minimum 15 years of professional research experience in applied settings.
  • Experience in marketing, advertising, communication, or social science.
  • Experience working with advertising agencies, PR agencies, or branding firms.
  • Comfort with fast-paced and evolving settings, balancing multiple priorities, delivering under quick turnarounds, and reconciling multiple viewpoints.
  • Experience briefing high-level stakeholders.
  • Experience influencing decision makers at the agency and client levels.
  • High degree of team orientation.
  • Experience leading project teams in the execution of research.
  • Experience with business development, including identifying opportunities and preparing proposals.

Nice to have

  • Experience bidding on or managing government contracts preferred, but not required.
  • Military-related and youth-related experience preferred, but not required.

Compensation

  • $190,000 - $225,000/year FM Career Map: Principal Researcher II Location: Chicago, IL.

Benefits

  • Our benefits typically meet or exceed our competitors' packages.
  • Top-tier health, dental, vision, and long and short-term disability coverage all covered at 100% for employee coverage.
  • We provide a floating holiday bank so you can celebrate the days you value.
  • Generous matching retirement contributions and no vesting period starting the third month of employment.
  • You can volunteer your way with paid time off.

Company info

  • At Fors Marsh, we take on issues that matter.
  • We are a team of researchers, strategists, and communicators working together to drive lasting change.
  • We look at human behavior from all angles with a deep understanding of people and context to design solutions that influence decision-making and move people to action.
  • Our work promotes health and well-being, shapes resilient communities, and builds effective and accountable institutions.
  • We are a certified B Corporation and a Top Workplace for 7 consecutive years.
  • WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR: Fors Marsh is seeking an experienced market research professional to provide leadership on our audience understanding, marketing and brand insights, and advertising performance work for the U.S. Army's recruitment advertising program.
  • Fors Marsh supports this program as part of a team including multiple advertising, marketing and public relations agency partners.
  • We execute audience segmentation, brand perception research, advertising and brand tracking research, message and concept testing, and other applied research tasks required to lead one of the largest employment branding efforts in the world.
  • The primary client is in Chicago, and while our team is spread around the country, this position will be in Chicago and will require working onsite regularly to interact with Fors Marsh team members, agency partners, and U.S. Army advertising, marketing, and research executive leaders.
  • The selected individual will work in a senior account leadership role, with the primary responsibility of building and maintaining strong relationships with the Fors Marsh research team and senior leadership at Fors Marsh, the lead advertising agency, other marketing and public relations agency partners, and U.S. Army marketing leadership.
  • The individual will develop a broad understanding of the research portfolio and how it supports each Army recruiting mission.
  • The individual will lead gathering client requirements and work with the lead agency and client representatives to shape proposed research products and timelines to meet their needs.
  • The selected individual also will ensure Fors Marsh research products deliver maximum value to agency partners and Army decisionmakers.

Equal opportunity

  • Chicago, IL.
  • All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. #LI-DNI

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Citizen and consent to a full background check due to our federal contract requirements
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