Adelphi Research 

At Adelphi Research, we strive to create a work environment that encourages and compliments individuals who are curious, who are critical thinkers who think outside the box. We are interested in people who like challenges, who are passionate about what they do, take pride in their accomplishments and appreciate being recognized for them. We want team players, critical thinkers, individuals who are flexible and excited to jump in and contribute in a team environment. Our mission is tech forward, with a commitment to smart, valid AI integration into workstreams that gives our talent more time to innovate and consult with client. If this sounds like you, and you fit the requirements of the job description, send us your resume and let’s talk.

Job Title: Statistics Manager 

Overall description of role: Working as part of our dynamic Advanced Analytics team using a wide range of applied statistical techniques, AI, and interactive application development approaches to analyze data, visualize results, and interpret findings for business decision support.

Key Responsibilities 

Design and Analysis on Advanced/Multivariate Methods/Models

• Collaborate to help project teams design research that overcomes challenges and achieves clients’ business objectives
• Independently build models/quality check others’ models and associated tools for specific business needs, including design and improvement of models for branded solutionsBuild and Enhance Statistical Methods/Tools

• Proficiency in multiple advanced methodologies (e.g., regression, conjoint, segmentation, pricing, structural equations modeling, belief networks, factor analysis, etc.)
• Evaluate new methodologies for their robustness and application; integrate into Adelphi offerings
• Automate and build efficiencies in the analysis process (e.g., data checking, quick assessment of segments, stacking of data for driver analysis, automation of dashboard outputs, etc.
• Go-to expert for model application development (R-Shiny, Excel, Visual Basic, Python, PowerBI, etc.)
• Contribute as part of team to on-going integration of AI into portfolio and process for value add and efficiencyLiaise with Project Team

• Client-facing member of the proposal/project team for advanced methods presentations, dialogue, application demonstrations
• Proactively looks to add value at the proposal stage, proposes ideas and assists project teams in articulating them verbally, in writing
• Provide input into project design elements to optimize for statistical analysis
• Create standards and quality checklists to help others understand how questionnaire design affects subsequent analyses
• Lead analytic brainstorming with advanced methods and project teams to solve analytic challenges and create bespoke analysis elements on the fly

Staff Development and Training

• Go-to coach for advanced methods team coaching on statistics, coding, model/app development
• Established leadership/expertise in one or more “best practice” areas, drives and maintains documentation, trains fellow group members in the optimal use of tools and techniques
• Supports overall team scheduling in addition to planning and managing own resource levels in co-ordination with data services and research teams
• Maintains/updates intra- and inter-team processes
• Commercial awareness of the cost of analytics time, including providing information for project costing purposes
• Able to evaluate statistical outputs in business context, gauge quality of analysis against business need, and proactively iterate prior to sharing solutions internally

Person specification 

Essential

• Master’s or doctorate degree, or equivalent applied experience
• Minimum of 6-8 years of experience

• Broad knowledge of statistical techniques
• Experience with data manipulation, weighting, sample size calculation and significance testing
• Proficiency building war gaming/simulation models/interactive dashboards (R-Shiny, Excel, VBA, or other applications)
• Excellent ability to understand and work with numbers
• Ability to work to tight client driven deadlines
• Experience with multivariate statistics (regression, conjoint and discrete choice methods and segmentation)
• Ability to explain analyses and statistical outputs in terms non-statisticians can understand

Mix of the following experience required:

• Proficient in modelling with categorical and ordinal data through the use of multinomial and ordinal regression methods and log-linear and logit methods
• Proficient integrating survey research with secondary data sources for modelling and data validation purposes
• Strong experience with advanced methods such as time series forecasting, Structural Equation Models (SEM), Path Analysis, and Partial Least Squares Path Models (PLS PM)
• Strong experience with hierarchical models, Bayesian approaches, Hidden Markov Models, Latent Class Models, and Monte Carlo methods
• Strong experience with Machine Learning techniques such as k-means, Gaussian Mixtures, Support Vector Machines (SVM)
• Exposure to Artificial Neural Nets and Kohonen Maps is a plus
• Experimental design
• Knowledge and advanced use of R and at least two of the following:  Sawtooth CBC/HB, SPSS, Github, Matlab, Python, XLStat, SAS.

Competencies

• Excellent analytical skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Excellent organization skills
• Ability to juggle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
• Good creative problem-solving skills
• Adept at team brainstorming, both in-person and virtually

Job Vacancy

Director 

Company: Adelphi Research, part of Adelphi Group (an Omnicom Healthcare Company)

Job Location: Based in our HQ office in Bollington, Cheshire, UK with potential for some remote working for the right candidate. Must have ability and willingness to travel widely within Europe, as required to deliver to clients

About Adelphi Research: Adelphi Research is a leading market research-based consultancy with a focus purely on the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors. For over 25 years, we have partnered with most of the world’s leading Pharmaceutical Companies to design and deliver research solutions that generate meaningful insights and inspire commercial decision making.

From our HQ offices in the UK and USA, we provide global research coverage, with the majority of our projects being multi-country in nature, including a mix of Western Europe and the Nordics, North America, South America, Australia, China and Japan. We are increasingly delivering research projects with coverage of the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Russia.

The role: Due to successful client growth an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Director to join Adelphi Research.

A strategic position focused on building and managing client relationships through the design and delivery of high quality, strategic insight. Most suited to a business-minded leader with extensive pharmaceutical market research experience, who wishes to impact the shape and future of our business.

The Person: You will be excited by the prospect of designing, managing and delivering all aspects of work commissioned by our clients;

have a constant eye on creating and presenting high quality insights – putting spark into research opportunities with new clients and maintaining excitement and freshness in relationships with existing clients.

You may have a particular talent in a specific area of market research, but are conversant across the full range of tools and techniques we use to address our clients’ business questions. 

You will want to play an important role in our wider management team, and be highly engaged in shaping our direction.  Our company success is determined by individual drive and focus and you will want to be at the centre of this.

Role requirements: Reporting directly to a member of our Leadership Team (LT) you will be heavily involved in leading the business through great client management, winning new business with existing and new clients, and being a role model for the wider team.

This role is the flesh and blood of our business, as our Directors provide the glue in our critical client relationships.  Clients are the reason we exist, and these relationships need to be nurtured, so that clients always say they feel Adelphi Research are an essential partner in their success.  This applies to existing clients as well as new clients. 

In conjunction with securing and growing clients, there are sales and profit targets associated with this role because of its importance to our business success.

The scope of work we deliver for our clients spans a range of qualitative and quantitative approaches.  Big picture thinking is essential in order to make what we learn actionable.  Mentoring talent within the team is critical to ensuring we continuously deliver impact from our work.

Core competencies- You must be able to demonstrate the following:

Company and Client Management

• Lead / master in an area that is organisationally beneficial (can be change programmes, therapy area experts, supporting one of the business workstreams etc – something that they really push forward and are passionate about)
• Confident and proactive at BD skills, owning client accounts and contributing to a wider breadth of accounts
• Lead for allocated clients, including ensuring influx of business
• Identify new business opportunities and gain meetings to build relationships that deliver RFPs
• Develop key accounts
• Design and produce outstanding / winning client proposals
• Achieve financial goals
• Develop long term commercial plans for the business / your accounts
• Excellent communication skills

Research and Delivery Expertise

• Proficient in the design of high level custom qualitative and quantitative studies, with significant expertise in at least one area
• Strong analytical skills and report design
• Create and deliver visually impactful and action-focused presentations and reports with clear strategic guidance, efficiently and profitably
• Communicate your thinking with clarity to clients
• Lead project teams by providing clear guidance and direction
• Confident to foresee/avoid/manage problems and provide solutions

People Management

• Understanding of, and input into, personal development of all members of staff
• Specific mentoring and career development responsibilities for direct reports
• Skillful in providing both positive and critical feedback
• A positive role model across the whole business driving team engagement and motivation

Qualifications and Experience:

• Degree level qualified (2:1 as a minimum in a relevant area), ideally with a relevant advanced qualification (e.g. MSc, PhD, MBA)
• 10+ years of market research experience, ideally within an agency environment. Client-side experience also desirable
• Significant healthcare/pharmaceutical research experience with proven track record of client growth and delivery on financial goals
• Experience across all research approaches, but able to demonstrate expertise and client credibility in at least one area
• Expertise and experience in specific therapy areas
• Foreign languages are desirable

Package:

• Adelphi Research offer a competitive remuneration package consisting of base salary, quarterly performance-based bonus and car allowance.
• If you have expertise in advanced quantitative research (e.g. segmentation, conjoint etc.) and/or have strength and significant experience in oncology or haematology then this experience will be reflected in your package
• In addition to your salary package, we also provide:
  • Company laptop
  • Free-gym membership (based at our office)
  • Health insurance (taxable benefit)
  • Pension benefits

Research Manager (RM)

Company: Adelphi Research, part of Adelphi Group (an Omnicom Healthcare Company)

Job Location: Based in our HQ office in Bollington, Cheshire, UK, however, we offer great flexibility and hybrid working.

Whilst virtual client engagement and execution of research has been virtual since 2020, we do expect travel to be part of this role in the future.

About Adelphi Research: Adelphi Research is a global market research consultancy. As an Adelphi Group company, we’ve been providing insights that impact strategic decision-making for pharmaceutical and healthcare organisations for over 30 years. Our work focuses on designing and delivering insights that inspire action and drive change our clients seek to achieve. It is through the continuous development of our people and honing of our culture we drive our successes.

We are a dynamic, creative, and connected team with a thirst for learning, which is reflected in the meaningful relationships that we develop, both internally as a team and externally with our clients.

From our HQ offices in the UK and USA, we carry out research globally, working across a wide range of therapy areas. 

We have invested time and development in adopting a model of transformational growth and change, which provides diverse opportunities for our teams to experiment in the spirit of continuously improving what we do.

The role: Our Research Managers are integral to designing and delivering great, creative solutions for our clients.  You will have a thirst for personal development and experimentation, picking up the leadership of key initiatives set by the wider management and leaderhip teams.

You should have established excellent research and communication skills as well as delivering in a client centric, business focussed manner.

The Person: Whilst you may have more experience in either quantitative or qualitative research, the role will require you to work across both research types.

You will already possess strong skills, knowledge and application of market research techniques that are beyond the basics: from innovative qualitative techniques to potentially more complex quantitative approaches. In addition, you will be highly curious with the ambition to master a broad range of frameworks and methodologies to solve our clients’ business questions.

You aspire to be a positive role model for others. This translates into showing strong leadership and responsibility in the team, both for your direct reports and also for those that you are working with in organisational and project teams. You are able to develop and mentor others and ensure strong delivery through encouragement and constructive feedback.

Role requirements:  Our research managers are key in setting the expectations and ensuring the execution of high quality, day to day project management.  This ensures that when we design a piece of research that needs to provide important insight for our clients to shape their strategies, that we do in fact deliver and delivery extremely well on each engagement. 

You will excel in designing and developing highly impactful approaches to answering our clients’ key business questions.  This will also be achieved with impeccable attention to quality, clear direction for the team, and effective guidance in our work with our local market partners

In your successful project delivery, you will directly impact our closeness with our clients, instilling confidence and providing ongoing inspiration to delivery of insight.

While not a KPI as yet in your career path, the role is a springboard to account management strategy, and those in this role will enjoy engagement with client planning and ideation on ways to keep what we do with our clients fresh.  You will be able to take on proposal design and be involved where possible in pitching new business.

The role is also the beginning of people management responsibility, playing a part in the development and progression of our incoming graduates and executives in the team.

We have embedded a way of working together known as Radical Candor, which ensures we care personally and challenge directly, both to amplify talent and performance as well as address challenges in a timely and effective fashion.

Core competencies - You must be able to demonstrate the following:

• Evidence of exposure to all aspects of the market research processes from set up through to presentation; including competence in questionnaire/discussion guide design, project management, data analysis and interpretation, creation & delivery of presentations based on client objectives
• Confidence and experience at presenting research finding to clients in a dynamic and clearly understood manner (virtually and in person)
• Ability to lead and deliver multi-country research assignments with minimal supervision. It is expected that you will independently lead some client engagements, whilst for others, you may be working with a Research Director or Senior Director
• Ability to contribute to proposals is a skill that is expected to develop in this role
• Excellent organisation & communication skills
• Attention to detail is crucial
• Ability to work as part of a team as well as independently motivated
• Ability to motivate others, though leading by example as well as direct line management.
• And most importantly, passion for what you do and a personal desire to progress

Package:  Adelphi Research offer a competitive package based on experience, plus an annual incentive plan based on Company and personal performance.

The role will attract a higher salary if you are already an experienced RM and can bring additional skills to our team, such as fluency in a relevant foreign language, or experience of more advanced research technique (e.g. quantitative segmentation, conjoint experience or qualitative projective techniques).

We invest heavily in your career development and offer continuous development opportunities /courses to support your growth, regardless of level.

In addition to your salary package, we also provide:

• Company laptop
• Free-gym membership
• Health insurance (taxable benefit)
• Pension benefits