Director, Insights
WittKieffer | |
United States, Illinois, Oak Brook | |
Sep 29, 2024 | |
We are mission-driven to advance wellbeing across the Quality of Life ecosystem through impactful leadership. Come join us! BACKGROUND At WittKieffer, we recognize that the well-being of people and communities is inextricably tied to health, education, and scientific advancement. That is why WittKieffer exclusively serves organizations aligned to these areas of impact, as we have for more than 55 years. We help our clients navigate this ever-evolving and complex world by using our unique insight to identify and enable exceptional leadership. We precisely tune our services to the needs of each client-whether non-profit or for-profit-delivering high-impact executive search, interim and on-demand leadership, and leadership advisory solutions. Our insight-driven approach to building and enabling leadership teams is fundamental to our purpose: Improving Quality of Life through Impactful Leadership. The recently established Commercial Strategy & Insights (CSI) team is a strategic imperative serving our clients, candidates, and colleagues at WittKieffer. The team plays a pivotal role in fully establishing and embedding knowledge and data-grounded insight as a foundational element of the firm's brand, client leadership solutions, business development, and operations. To differentiate WittKieffer through an insight-driven advisory approach, there are four interconnected levers building the CSI team: insights, impact assessment, client strategy, and pursuit management. THE ROLE WittKieffer considers the role of the Director of Insights as a pivotal position in generating impactful insights and thought leadership content through strategic research initiatives focused on leadership within the Quality of Life Ecosystem. Collaborating closely with the marketing team, this position shapes WittKieffer's brand through unique insights and supports a content-driven approach to branding, marketing, and business development. By developing and maintaining proprietary data tools and conducting in-depth research, the Director provides essential support to market-facing teams and other firm members, enhancing data-driven communication, editorial content, and decision-making within WittKieffer. The Director's primary responsibility will be to lead a team of insights strategists in delivering a steady flow of high-quality, differentiated, data-driven market and talent intelligence. This involves transforming first-, second-, and third-party data into impactful insights to be leveraged in business development, pitches and proposals, and brand-building thought leadership. The work can be carried out in a remote or hybrid environment. RESPONSIBILITIES Cutting-Edge Insights Generation:
Knowledge & Data Management:
Stakeholder Engagement & Team Leadership:
CANDIDATE PROFILE Qualifications:
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Witt/Kieffer Inc. ("Witt/Kieffer") provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. WittKieffer will recruit, employ, train, promote and compensate our employees withoutregard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, citizenship, gender, pregnancy,military status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, sexual identify, disability or any other personal characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law. WittKiefferwill endeavor to make reasonable accommodation, as required by law, for qualifiedindividuals with known disabilities or religious practices unless doing so would result in anundue hardship on the operation of our business. |