Senior Behavioral Science Strategist

Reporting to an SVP, Strategy & Innovation, you will provide senior project leadership on qualitative primary market research projects, inspiring your project team and nurturing the day-to-day client relationship, resulting in an excellent client experience.  Leveraging your PhD Behavioral Science (BSci) expertise, skills, and collaborating with our Human Science Center of Excellence team members, you will develop deep human behavior-based insights to craft strategic business solutions, design and facilitate client co-creation sessions that translate strategy into behavioral action. You will also contribute to thought leadership through the writing of BSci blogs and social media posts to expand our client’s understanding of how we uniquely apply BSci to the work we do.

Project Delivery

• Effectively leads multiple complex, multi-phased qualitative primary and secondary market research projects such as integrated patient, HCP, circle of care experience journeys, emotional drivers & barriers, concept development, optimizing and testing, etc. Oversees the project team, leads day-to-day client relationship and development of the strategic deliverables
• Innovates with Human Science Center of Excellence, Foresight and Experience Design experts to deliver new frameworks and thinking models to solve client business challenges
• Leads all methods of fieldwork and is skilled at deep ethnographic interviewing. Has achieved mastery research skills across a range of modalities (e.g.interviewing, discussion groups, longitudinal digital ethnographic journaling, literature review, meta analysis, etc…)
• Leads their project team in analysis, emerges the strategic story, crafts the strategy solution and identifies tactical behavioral solutions
• Is skilled at emerging the deeper psychological drivers of belief and behavior, leading to the revelation of deep human insight, critical for client empathy and strategy creation
• Will collaborate with an Executive Sponsor to act as a sounding board and to refine story and strategic solutions
• Contributes to or leads the design of and facilitates co-creation workshops

Client Relationship

• Engages clients in discussions around their larger business issues and identifies opportunities for deepening client relationships
• Ability to identify strategic opportunities for a client beyond what has been requested in the RFP
• Can become a trusted advisor
  

Communication Excellence

• Effective in making complex information digestible (simplification, interesting visual representations, lay language, etc.)
• Expertly delivers BSci concepts in accessible, salient, and compelling ways
• Demonstrates confidence and knowledge when delivering findings and recommendations

Thought Leadership

• Leads BSci thought leadership initiatives: including writing several blog posts per year, leading the development of lunch and learns and other thought leadership initiatives
• Identifies opportunities for BSci innovation within the FSi Strategy offering, leading the development of new tools, perspectives, and offerings

Culture

• Contributes to and develops a culture of collaboration, care, and respect
• Commits to creating an equitable and inclusive environment for members of the team and clients
• Mentors and develops less experienced Strategists and Analysts

• PhD in Behavioral Science related studies, Cognitive Neuroscience preferred
• Minimum of 3+ years of work experience in strategy and qualitative primary market research with HCPs, patients, caregivers, in the health sciences/pharma industry
• Experience conducting and leading in depth interviews with a range of healthcare stakeholders
• Proven success working with multidisciplinary and diverse teams
• Excellent client relationship skills
• Strong collaborator and ability to emerge great thinking from others
• Strategic thinker with strong analytic and writing skills
• Commitment to empathy for research participants and client and FSi Strategy teams
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects efficiently
• Ability to travel (~20-30%)within North America for project work and business development

This is a remote full-time permanent position in the salary range of $100k-$130k.

 Fresh Squeezed Ideas supports a 4 Day Work to elevate personal flexibility and support an environment where team members feel they are learning and growing both in their professional and personal lives. We conduct our work from Monday to Thursday with Friday as our Flexible workday for personal & professional development.

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