Research Talent Hub

Our strategic HIRING SOLUTIONS will help you start a project, find mid-to-senior talent, craft a succession planning strategy, or scope the market for a new executive/non-executive appointment. 

We offer ON-DEMAND hires, EXECUTIVE SEARCH solutions, or PROJECT STYLE assignments (including bespoke Intelligence Studies i.e. Compensation & Benefits or Competitor Insights/Market Mapping). 

We tailor each project to specific requirements and adapt our rigorous Search Methodology accordingly.

We work in close collaboration with hand-picked clients to attract TOP TALENT, ensuring growth, team retention, and a competitive advantage. 

Our sweet spot includes market research agencies, innovation and cultural insights boutiques, transformational (brand-led) growth or innovation consultancies, ESG strategy firms, and emerging, fast-scaling res-tech start-ups and scale-ups (AI-powered insights platforms).

🟡 If you would like to discuss our search methodology and successfully completed assignments in more detail, please book a 30-minute video call with Joanna --> https://calendly.com/research-talent-hub/30min.

🟠 Some of the critical searches we successfully completed include:

• Strategic Insights Manager / Director
• Senior Researcher 
• VP Global Head of Research 
• CEO
• Director of Data & Intelligence 
• Head of Behavioural Strategy 
• Social Insights Manager / Director
• Research Manager 
• Strategy Director
• Research Director
• Head of Research (Insight Department)
• Commercial Director
• Head of Cultural Insights
• Associate Research Director
• Head of AI Innovation
• Advanced Analytics Head
• Cultural Insights Director
• VP Behavioural Insights
• Customer Success Manager

Talent Search Partners to Market Research, Innovation/Growth Strategy & Res-Tech Agency Founders/MDs

Career Coaching Hub

💗 I'm delighted to extend a special invitation for a COMPLIMENTARY Career Consulting or Career Coaching workshop. 

This exclusive package includes a 60-minute session following an initial 30-minute Discovery Call, totalling 90 minutes of personalised guidance, to a select group of candidates who commit to working EXCLUSIVELY with me through Research Talent Hub. Please ping me to find out more! 💗

What's the main difference between Career COACHING and Career CONSULTING?

Imagine you are learning how to ride a bicycle. 🚲

A Career Consultant would ride a bike for a while and give you 'How to Manual', aka a successful Job-Hunting strategy or tactics for writing a winning CV, LinkedIn Optimisation or how to wing that Interview!

A Transformational Career Coach would get you on the bicycle and walk alongside you, guiding you through the process until you feel confident enough to ride on your own!

CAREER CONSULTING might be better for you if you need to achieve your career goals quickly and with minimum fuss. I use various career consulting services that give you the tools for success.

CAREER COACHING is your longer-term investment to achieve your career goals. I will guide and inspire you so you can kick start achieving more of your personal and professional goals.

Transformational Career Coach 

Lipton Fleming (now Source)

Launched, developed and successfully run Market Research Agency focused recruitment practice at Lipton Fleming building on personal, long-established clients and candidates’ relationships in the market research industry.

Helped to plan and manage the careers of many talented qualitative and quantitative researchers and insight/social media intelligence & research operations professionals at all levels. 

I've met a lot of amazing and inspiring people in the industry. Thank you for allowing me to help you achieve your long-term goals: your success represents my success as a market research recruiter.

Made a lot of market research/insight/brand consultancies and media owners genuinely happy. I introduced amazing talent to their teams (I am very proud of this)! We've worked closely together to achieve it though (you have to) and had some great appointments as a result.

Market Research & Insight - Managing Consultant

Boyce Recruitment

Established and run a highly successful Market Research/Consumer Insight division to broaden Boyce Recruitment offering in the market place. 

I have successfully placed market research & insight professionals at all levels from Graduate Trainee to Managing Director into a broad range of consultancies, client companies and agencies in Research/Insight/Consultancy or Field/Operations/Data Processing positions. 

Provided market & career consultancy to clients and candidates within the market research/insight/analytics industry including market/salary/competitors assessment briefings and CV & Interview Surgery meetings.

Networked at various industry related events including Research Conferences or MRS Members evenings.

Developed a detailed knowledge of market research and market research recruitment issues through appropriate reading, seminars, networking events and practical experience.

Senior Market Research & Insight Consultant

Harrods

As Harrods Executive Management Trainee I was fortunate enough to work across different teams and participated in their structured post-graduate retail study programme. I enjoyed learning new skills and continuously adapting to the needs of diverse teams. I received an on-going training across different areas of the business including Recruitment & HR, Marketing, Sales, Seasonal Events & Project Management. 

Some of the things I’ve accomplished: 

Worked in Recruitment & HR division, gaining experience in interviewing techniques including Competency Based Interviewing. Learned HR policies & procedures including Discipline & Grievance, Sickness, Maternity & Absence and Equal Opportunities etc.

Undertook an independent project investigating the opportunities for marketing Whitehall’s beauty rooms. Analysed managers’ approach to acquisition & retention, financial performance, the appeal of rooms and competition. Recommendations included innovative concepts aimed at promoting beauty rooms.

Executive Management Trainee (Graduate Trainee Scheme)

I am not just a recruiter; I am a strategic partner, the antipode to your hiring headaches in the market research, insights, res-tech, innovation or ESG strategy, and brand-led growth consulting sectors. 

Proudly partnering with some of the world's most innovative companies, I specialise in CRITICAL, CONFIDENTIAL and CHALLENGING HIRES that drive progress in research, transformational business strategy, and innovation.

If you had to work on a 'no win, no fee' basis, the quality of your work would probably be poor.

Research Director, Consultancy Partner, Managing Director, Founder — whatever you do for a living, you and your team provide your clients with expertise so they don't need to do it themselves. You respond to their needs and deliver projects professionally. And you are held responsible for that service.

Recruitment is often not like that.

To be fair, a no-win-no-fee approach CAN work in recruitment - for relatively straightforward, low-level hires, your 'doers' in the team if you want it fast, and there is less at stake for a bad hire. 

But for strategic, high-level, senior, confidential or niche hires with fee generation or management - you need to approach it as you would do any professional project. You need to trust a skilled expert who will plan your project, deliver it and be accountable to you throughout the entire process. 

Also, it helps that I have over 15 years of knowledge and experience in strategic talent acquisition and career consulting/coaching in market research & insights, innovation strategy, brand growth strategy consulting, and increasingly in AI-led Insights Platforms & ESG strategy (and many highly inspirational, long-term partners!). You will be in safe hands. 

🟠 RESEARCH TALENT HUB 🟠

Our strategic HIRING SOLUTIONS will help you start a project, find mid-to-senior talent, craft a succession planning strategy, or scope the market for a new executive/non-executive appointment. 

We offer ON-DEMAND hires, EXECUTIVE SEARCH solutions, or PROJECT STYLE assignments (including bespoke Intelligence Studies i.e. Compensation & Benefits or Competitor Insights/Market Mapping). 

We tailor each project to specific requirements and adapt our rigorous Search Methodology accordingly.

We work in close collaboration with hand-picked clients to attract TOP TALENT, ensuring growth, team retention, and a competitive advantage. 

🟡 If you would like to discuss our methodology and successfully completed assignments in more detail, please book a 30-minute video call with Joanna --> https://calendly.com/research-talent-hub/30min.

Joanna Byerley

NSPCC

I lead the consumer insight team at the NSPCC, working with Marketing & Fundraising, delivering supporter and audience insights that help us grow our revenue and impact.

Senior Manager Consumer Insights

Self-employed

I work with clients to provide experienced research and consumer insight support across a range of categories. I am happy to deliver on full projects or ad-hoc elements of a project, but my specialism is turning data into actionable insights.

Director, RC Consulting

Trajectory Ventures

Trajectory Ventures is a dedicated service for the investment market, and can assist in:
 1. Identifying areas of growth, based on consumer trends, either for new investments or for existing companies within the portfolio
 2. Due diligence before investment (competitor analysis, market data)
 3. Market overviews to identify trends within specific demographic targets or industry verticals
 
 We are ideally placed to deliver results tailored specifically to the needs of investors: 
 highly experienced business team 
 impressive track-record of identifying new revenue streams 
 consumer trends analysis 
 detailed research experience across qual, quant, econometric modelling
 agile and cost-effective approach

Director

Time Inc. UK

I identified the need for, and headed, a dedicated strategy team within IPC Insight. Our focus is on developing strategy for IPC Advertising and the wider business. We identify and report on media, consumer and economic trends as well as benchmarking our performance to the market and identifying commercial opportunities arising from this. The strategic insights we have identified have been fundamental to NPD in 2010 and will continue to shape the business as it evolves to meet the needs of consumers in the connected, converged, digital age

Head of Strategic Planning

Mediacom

Working on a range of clients from Direct Line to Emirates Airline, Kwik Fit and the pan-European Hitachi account, managing a team of two, I was responsible for all strategic comms planning and account management. This included co-ordinating buying, insight, econometric and DR teams as well as creative and PR agencies; developing in depth planning rationales and channel planning and allocating budgets. From this I have a thorough understanding of the strengths of different media, campaign types and consumer insight methodologies. Having worked across a breadth of different clients, I have also gained a sound understanding of the key drivers in their respective industries.

Planning Manager

I love getting to know audiences for all kinds of business sectors and over my twenty years of experienced this has ranged across everything from automotive to international development charities, via food, fashion and travel. 

What I love even more though, is finding the stories in the data, those little surprises and nuggets of information that can transform a business’s understanding of their audience: who they are and how to best communicate with them and serve them. 

I have worked with business strategy teams, identifying consumer trends to develop new products, as well as on large, global qual projects to test new brand identities, audience segmentation analysis and even re-analysing brand tracking data to gain a new understanding of audience behaviour. 

My experience covers:
•	Data analysis -  analysis of existing primary research data (qual or quant) 
•	Bespoke research projects – identifying scope of research and respondents, scripting surveys or 
        discussion guides, project managing fieldwork, analysing resulting data and providing  recommendations
•	New product development – who is the target audience, what makes them tick, what’s changing for them and what are they looking for, how best to communicate with them
•	Consumer trend analysis

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