
Director, SA&I, India (Quantitative Research)
- Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Core Responsibilities
- Lead and Manage a strong customer success delivery team.
- Support the India Sales organization and clients with best in class methodologies, deliverables and technical needs.
- Driving expertise in the practice and being the methods champion. Bringing that expertise to the fore in our proposal writing and RFP
- Support the India Customer Success lead in managing the P&L of the practice area including W&S and T&E budgets
- Coordinate and drive cross-training programs in order to maximize solution and delivery excellence, expertise, and staffing flexibility
- Set and measure a high level of delivery standards driving client satisfaction
- Contribute to meet India revenue targets by supporting repeat sales and timely deliverables
- Coordinate and support with India Vertical business leaders and Client Sales partners on client and project revenue growth, retention, and profitability
- Represent Customer Success at key client meetings, Top-To-Top meetings, and key engagements as relevant
- Drive high level employee engagement and retention
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement and accountability to drive organizational efficiency
- Lead and enable industry and thought leadership efforts from the Brand and Media Practice
- Core KPIs
- Team Engagement and Retention
- Increase engagement among customer success associates in the region as measured through Engage results as well as retention of associates
- Regional Revenue for the Practice Area
- Drive repeat sales, renewals
- Ensure all delivery schedules are optimized to meet quarterly revenue targets
- NPS
- Ensure sufficient response rate from clients
- Increase/maintain baseline performance
- Support and/or lead key client follow ups and action plans
- EBITDA
- Monitor project and solution profitability, and leverage time tracking learning to help improve delivery contribution
- Manage W&S Delivery budget through a lens of optimization for India via org design, hubbing, etc.
- Manage T&E budget through the lens of prioritizing client engagement as well as team performance and engagement
- Strong sense of urgency and accountability to drive client outcomes
- Proven experience in leading a team, managing people, and developing talent
- Able to work collaboratively with internal & external teams
- Capable to maintain positive client relationships in complex situations & resolve client issues
- Strong logic, deductive reasoning, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills
- Skilled & polished communicator, including client presentations
- Able to synthesize data & simplify findings to solve client business issues
- Strong project management skills and ability to manage multiple priorities
- Experience using large data sets to finding insights and make recommendations
- High say-do ratio
- Proven track record in Market Research leadership roles
- Expertise in (application of) Customer Insight Solutions preferred
- Proven leader of high performing teams
- Bachelor's Degree required, Master's preferred, or equivalent experience
- Strong analytical skills
- Proven sales acumen
- Flexible working environment
- Volunteer time off
- LinkedIn Learning
- Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)