52 Director Of Research jobs in the United Kingdom

Location(s): London, Amsterdam, or Madrid (with flexibility)

Reports to: VP, Data & Analytics

Visa Sponsorship: Location dependant

A high-growth, customer-facing digital business is redefining its industry through data-driven innovation, modern design practices, and world-class customer experience. As part of this transformation, Good Maven are supporting to hire a Research Director to build and lead a new, high-impact Product and Market Research function.

This is a unique opportunity to join a tech-forward environment and build a best-in-class research capability from the ground up. You’ll transform a nascent function into a strategic partner across Product, Design, Marketing, and Data, influencing product direction, marketing strategy, and customer experience.

We’re looking for a hands-on, resilient research leader who can move between strategy, execution, and team-building, and who thrives in complex, fast-paced, and high-stakes environments.

What you’ll do

• Define and lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a modern, combined Product & Market Research function.
• Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of researchers focused on customer insight and impact.
• Deliver actionable insights through qualitative and quantitative research that shape product and marketing decisions.
• Partner with Product, Design, Data, Engineering, and Marketing to embed the customer voice into strategy and execution.
• Overhaul and elevate a legacy team through hiring, mentorship, and organisational change.
• Establish scalable frameworks, processes, and tools to maximise research effectiveness and influence.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, influencing decisions with evidence-based insight.

What we’re looking for

• A proven research leader with experience building impactful teams in product-led, customer-centric environments.
• Strong expertise across qualitative and quantitative methods, with an ability to influence strategy and execution.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to prioritise, inspire change, and align stakeholders across functions.
• Experience partnering closely with Product, Marketing, and Design teams to deliver customer-centric outcomes.
• Resilient and resourceful: able to navigate legacy systems and inspire transformation.
• Demonstrated success managing managers and/or senior ICs within high-performing teams.
• Skilled in storytelling, data synthesis, and presenting clear, compelling insights to senior leadership.

What will help you succeed

• 10+ years of experience in Research (with exposure to both Product/UX and Market/Marketing Research).
• 5+ years in leadership roles, including management of multi-level teams.
• Experience in regulated, customer-facing industries such as e-commerce, fintech, digital media, entertainment, or gaming.
• Experience in scale-up, transformation, or high-growth environments.
• Track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong research talent.

Why this opportunity?

• Define and lead a globally impactful function at a pivotal growth stage.
• Shape the future of customer insight, personalisation, and product strategy in a complex, highly regulated industry.
• Collaborate with senior leaders across Product, Design, Engineering, Data, and Marketing.
• Enjoy the autonomy, ownership, and strategic influence of a leadership role in a well-resourced, tech-focused organisation.

If you're excited by the opportunity to build something new, influence at scale, and redefine how research shapes product and customer experience, we’d love to hear from you.

Research Director | Global Consulting Company | £70k-£100k DOE + Bonus | Mostly Remote / Central London

We’re working on an exciting opportunity with a global research and analytics firm; they are hiring for a Research Director (B2B) to join their global team.

The Company

Operating internationally, the company provides research and insight services that help businesses make better decisions through data.

They specialise in market intelligence, competitor analysis, and sector-specific research across industries such as finance, private equity, FMCG, and Tech.

The Role

This high-impact role combines strategic client advisory, advanced quantitative research, and team leadership across multiple sectors. If you’re driven by data, insight, and commercial outcomes – and want to shape strategies that matter – this is your chance to step into a pivotal leadership position with global reach.

The Candidate

Key attributes of the successful Research Director & Analytics include:

• Deep expertise in quantitative research methods – Conjoint, Max Diff, Segmentations, etc.
• Strong commercial mindset with a history of hitting revenue targets
• Proven leadership within a market research/analytics setting, with experience working across multiple sectors (ideally Financial Services or Tech)
• Experience of working with B2B Clients

Research Director | Global Consulting Company | £70k-£100k DOE + Bonus | Mostly Remote / Central London

We’re working on an exciting opportunity with a global research and analytics firm; they are hiring for a Research Director (B2B) to join their global team.

The Company

Operating internationally, the company provides research and insight services that help businesses make better decisions through data.

They specialise in market intelligence, competitor analysis, and sector-specific research across industries such as finance, private equity, FMCG, and Tech.

The Role

This high-impact role combines strategic client advisory, advanced quantitative research, and team leadership across multiple sectors. If you’re driven by data, insight, and commercial outcomes – and want to shape strategies that matter – this is your chance to step into a pivotal leadership position with global reach.

The Candidate

Key attributes of the successful Research Director & Analytics include:

• Deep expertise in quantitative research methods – Conjoint, Max Diff, Segmentations, etc.
• Strong commercial mindset with a history of hitting revenue targets
• Proven leadership within a market research/analytics setting, with experience working across multiple sectors (ideally Financial Services or Tech)
• Experience of working with B2B Clients

Location(s): London, Amsterdam, or Madrid (with flexibility)

Reports to: VP, Data & Analytics

Visa Sponsorship: Location dependant

A high-growth, customer-facing digital business is redefining its industry through data-driven innovation, modern design practices, and world-class customer experience. As part of this transformation, Good Maven are supporting to hire a Research Director to build and lead a new, high-impact Product and Market Research function.

This is a unique opportunity to join a tech-forward environment and build a best-in-class research capability from the ground up. You’ll transform a nascent function into a strategic partner across Product, Design, Marketing, and Data, influencing product direction, marketing strategy, and customer experience.

We’re looking for a hands-on, resilient research leader who can move between strategy, execution, and team-building, and who thrives in complex, fast-paced, and high-stakes environments.

What you’ll do

• Define and lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a modern, combined Product & Market Research function.
• Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of researchers focused on customer insight and impact.
• Deliver actionable insights through qualitative and quantitative research that shape product and marketing decisions.
• Partner with Product, Design, Data, Engineering, and Marketing to embed the customer voice into strategy and execution.
• Overhaul and elevate a legacy team through hiring, mentorship, and organisational change.
• Establish scalable frameworks, processes, and tools to maximise research effectiveness and influence.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, influencing decisions with evidence-based insight.

What we’re looking for

• A proven research leader with experience building impactful teams in product-led, customer-centric environments.
• Strong expertise across qualitative and quantitative methods, with an ability to influence strategy and execution.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to prioritise, inspire change, and align stakeholders across functions.
• Experience partnering closely with Product, Marketing, and Design teams to deliver customer-centric outcomes.
• Resilient and resourceful: able to navigate legacy systems and inspire transformation.
• Demonstrated success managing managers and/or senior ICs within high-performing teams.
• Skilled in storytelling, data synthesis, and presenting clear, compelling insights to senior leadership.

What will help you succeed

• 10+ years of experience in Research (with exposure to both Product/UX and Market/Marketing Research).
• 5+ years in leadership roles, including management of multi-level teams.
• Experience in regulated, customer-facing industries such as e-commerce, fintech, digital media, entertainment, or gaming.
• Experience in scale-up, transformation, or high-growth environments.
• Track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong research talent.

Why this opportunity?

• Define and lead a globally impactful function at a pivotal growth stage.
• Shape the future of customer insight, personalisation, and product strategy in a complex, highly regulated industry.
• Collaborate with senior leaders across Product, Design, Engineering, Data, and Marketing.
• Enjoy the autonomy, ownership, and strategic influence of a leadership role in a well-resourced, tech-focused organisation.

If you're excited by the opportunity to build something new, influence at scale, and redefine how research shapes product and customer experience, we’d love to hear from you.

Research Director (Brand)

Market Research, Insight Consultancy

Southwark, Hybrid Flexibility

£70,000 Base + Gold standard benefits

The Company:

Harnham have exclusively partnered with a leading data, insights and consulting company. The organization expertise covers brand, innovation, creative, media, commerce and customer experience, they help clients define what brands should stand for, how to disrupt and renew their offer, how to connect with audiences and how to win with consumers.

The Role:

As a Research Director, Brand you will be responsible for the following;

• Developing collaborative, strategic partnerships with clients and driving the strategy of some of the world’s leading brands
• Leading ongoing brand equity programmes, communications development and increasingly, groundbreaking research techniques, such as neuroscience, media & digital, social media and brand analytics
• Proactively building a wide and exciting network across the organization, in order to provide holistic answers to our clients’ business questions
• Ensuring overall client happiness and revenue growth
• Inspiring the team and giving direction to your account team/s
• Ensuring penetration across product/service portfolio with cross/up-sell including innovations

Skills and Experience:

• Experience working with global clients within fast-moving sector/s
• Brand tracking and brand communications experience
• Experience having worked in either research agency, client side or agency planning environments using quantitative datasets
• Experience managing and inspiring teams in a previous role/s or ready to take the step up
• Passionate about growing and developing your team, by being an inspiring leader and managing junior members

The benefits:

As a Research Director (Brand) you can earn up to a base of £70,000 + plus an aggressive benefits package

How to apply:

Please register your interest by sending your Resume to or via the Apply link on this page

Our client is a premier market research company. They specialise in the Rare Diseases and late-stage Oncology space.

Due to continued investment, strategy and growth, they are seeking a Research Director with an interest in innovating AI processes for the company!

The main purpose of our client is to supply valuable market insights via Surgeons, which is then supplied back to the Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology space!

An excellent opportunity to work on a mix of UK and global projects!

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

· You will be managing international, multi-market end client projects including some business development activities.

· Be comfortable with modern data visualisation and analytics tools, with experience in one or more of the following:

§ Displayr, Tableau, SPSS, or Excel-based statistical analysis

· Bringing AI Innovation in quantitative research to the company, whether in survey sets, survey responses, data collection, analysis or insight generation.

· Digging deeper into data trends and drivers

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

· 6+ years’ experience in a quantitative research-focused role, ideally within a healthcare market research agency setting

· Strong technical grounding in survey design and advanced quant techniques, including:

· Message recall and ATU tracking

· Demand estimation

· Concept/message testing

· Conjoint and MaxDiff analysis

· Segmentation and TPP testing

· A commercial mindset with a track record of growing business from existing clients

· Strong communication and storytelling skills – able to present complex data in a clear, compelling way

· Able to work independently while collaborating closely with internal teams and clients

High desirable: Passionate about AI innovation and practical application experience within a healthcare market research company.

What’s it all about?

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Quantitative Research Director to join our talented and growing team, working on some of our most strategic and biggest clients across Finance, Automotive & Travel sectors.

You'll be genuinely curious about our client's strategic issues, capable of turning findings into impactful insights, and skilled at building strong client relationships. You’ll have a passion for exploring new ideas and techniques, plus proven experience working in Market Research in a commercial environment.

As a Research Director, you’ll have the autonomy to flex your research and sector knowledge expertise, whilst drawing upon our industry leading toolkit of research methodologies, tools, techniques and proprietary thinking to help deliver better human understanding for our clients.

Managing quantitative projects you’ll get to work with our Qual team on mixed methodology projects as well as collaborate with our neuro, behavioural and data science teams to integrate deeper human understanding.

We offer Hybrid working, which for us is a blend of working remotely and in either our London or Winchester office. It’s all about choosing the best place to be for you, your team, and the business on any given working day.

As a Research Director you'll get to:

• Champion your client account(s), focussing on developing these relationships and maximise their growth potential
• Create project proposals for large and complex assignments, outlining methodology, costs, incorporating Human Understanding and a clear reason for using Walnut Unlimited
• Take decisions on managing new projects, allocation of resources and strategic planning of new business opportunities
• Oversee complex tasks, leading communication, briefing project teams and managing/delegating workload effectively
• Deliver client debriefs, overseeing preparation of presentation material, compiling/ writing conclusions and recommendations
• Learn about the role of neuroscience and behavioural science within research and receive support in applying these techniques
• Build and manage the teams working on your projects/accounts
• Conduct staff appraisals, communicating and setting objectives, and motivating staff
• Work with the board to develop Walnut Unlimited’s vision and strategic direction

Requirements

Who will you be?

• An experienced Quantitative Research Director, agency or client-side. We’re also happy to hear from experienced Associate Directors looking for a step up to advance your career
• You'll have proven experience in designing and delivering complex projects demonstrating expertise in a range of quantitative methodologies
• A fresh thinker with an open mind to build on your experience to offer clients the best research to answer their objectives
• An outstanding communicator, skilled in both verbal and written communication, adept at articulating purpose, role, priorities, and objectives with clarity.
• Solid project and people management skills including planning, controlling costs and overseeing projects
• Collaborative, inclusive and professional in your approach to working with colleagues, clients, partners and suppliers
• A creative storyteller with a talent for cutting through the data and writing compelling summaries, conclusions and recommendations
• A strong presenter whose personal delivery reflects confidence, enthusiasm and personality with the ability to deliver value and insight to the client
• You’ll have some knowledge and want to learn more about behavioural science the role of neuroscience within research

Benefits

What’s in it for you?

Our people are key to our success. Human understanding is what we do, both in terms of understanding people but also understanding our people. Whether this is investing in training and development, improving staff benefits or funding a really great day out, people are the heart and soul of everything we do.

 You’ll enjoy:

• Flexible hybrid working
• 25 Days’ Holiday pa
• Flexible Bank Holidays + 3 day Christmas closure.
• Additional Holiday purchase scheme.
• Contributory Pension Scheme.
• Life Assurance.
• Healthcare Cashback Plan (Incl. Employee Assistance Programme).
• Travel loan and Cycle to work and work abroad schemes.

Need a flavour of what to expect as part of our team, visit out Instagram channel @WalnutUnlimited to see what we’re up to…

Why join Walnut Unlimited?

As a Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work for, we help brands connect with people, by understanding people. We believe that interpreting human behaviour is as much an art as it is a science. Walnut uses market research techniques to understand what we think, how we feel and, most importantly, why.

Blending neuroscience, behavioural science and data science, we uncover the truth behind our human experiences.

We value:

• Respect – Respect for self, for each other and the work that we do.
• Spark – Demonstrate spark-y, charismatic, positive & energetic behaviour.
• Courage – Brave and bold. Prepared to stretch self and boundaries.
• Collaboration – Partnership with colleagues, suppliers and clients to achieve the best outcome.
• Evolution – Evolve with the times, market trends, staff, clients and consumers.

We are an Equal Opportunities Employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community. All candidates will be considered equally, however, unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship.

As an equal opportunities workplace, we have a commitment to ensuring equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, socio-economic status, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, neuro divergence, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. Whether you’re just getting your foot in the door, or you are an experienced employee whose life circumstances are shifting, we are committed to creating a workplace that reflects the world we want to live in and are therefore flexible to accommodate each individual's needs as best as we can.

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Director of Research & Analytics | Global Consulting Company | £70k-£100k DOE + Bonus | Mostly Remote / Central London

We’re working on an exciting opportunity with a global research and analytics firm; they are hiring for a Director of Research & Analytics (B2B) to join their global team.

The Company

Operating internationally, the company provides research and insight services that help businesses make better decisions through data.

They specialise in market intelligence, competitor analysis, and sector-specific research across industries such as finance, private equity, FMCG, and Tech.

The Role

This high-impact role combines strategic client advisory, advanced quantitative research, and team leadership across multiple sectors. If you’re driven by data, insight, and commercial outcomes – and want to shape strategies that matter – this is your chance to step into a pivotal leadership position with global reach.

The Candidate

Key attributes of the successful Director of Research & Analytics include:

• Deep expertise in quantitative research methods – Conjoint, Max Diff, Segmentations, etc.
• Strong commercial mindset with a history of hitting revenue targets
• Proven leadership within a market research/analytics setting, with experience working across multiple sectors (ideally Financial Services or Tech)
• Experience of working with B2B Clients

Director of Research & Analytics | Global Consulting Company | £70k-£100k DOE + Bonus | Mostly Remote / Central London

We’re working on an exciting opportunity with a global research and analytics firm; they are hiring for a Director of Research & Analytics (B2B) to join their global team.

The Company

Operating internationally, the company provides research and insight services that help businesses make better decisions through data.

They specialise in market intelligence, competitor analysis, and sector-specific research across industries such as finance, private equity, FMCG, and Tech.

The Role

This high-impact role combines strategic client advisory, advanced quantitative research, and team leadership across multiple sectors. If you’re driven by data, insight, and commercial outcomes – and want to shape strategies that matter – this is your chance to step into a pivotal leadership position with global reach.

The Candidate

Key attributes of the successful Director of Research & Analytics include:

• Deep expertise in quantitative research methods – Conjoint, Max Diff, Segmentations, etc.
• Strong commercial mindset with a history of hitting revenue targets
• Proven leadership within a market research/analytics setting, with experience working across multiple sectors (ideally Financial Services or Tech)
• Experience of working with B2B Clients