Director, Innovation Team - Ipsos Denmark

**Director - Innovation Team** **Ipsos Denmark** Are you a curious consultant with the ability to inspire teams and cultivate strong client partnerships? Do you want to join a committed professional community of skilled analysts and consultants dedicated to understanding and supporting our clients' challenges? At Ipsos Denmark, we are seeking an experienced Director to manage our extensive client portfolio within the Innovation domain, with a passion for delivering superior proposals, projects and recommendations. **Use Market Research as the Foundation to Develop Our Clients' Businesses** As Director, you will be involved in everything from new business development and client management to proactively driving client dialogue to scope and sell projects while delivering superior insights and intelligence. You will play an essential part of the global Ipsos organization, gaining access to sophisticated and well-designed research methods, technologies and perspectives within the industry, as well as our extensive network of experts worldwide. **A Unique Job Opportunity** "What I enjoy most as a Director at Ipsos is the wide-reaching impact of my actions on clients and colleagues alike. In this role, we build close and dedicated relationships with clients and share diverse challenges together. No client is the same, no project is the same, making every day unique. It feels very fulfilling to take clients' challenges as our own and apply our ever-evolving expertise to build truthfully impactful stories that clients can act on. Another significant part of this role is working in collaboration and mentoring more junior colleagues – acting as a driving force of growth and achievement of others." - Sara Sousa, Director In this position, you will work with some of the largest and most successful companies across various industries including FMCG, retail, banking, telecommunications, and services, both nationally and internationally. This is an opportunity for an interesting and challenging role at an international company with a high-performance culture that encourages new ideas and initiative. We value diversity and inclusion and strive to create a culture that embraces and celebrates our differences. We are dedicated to creating an environment where all employees feel valued and respected, can thrive and achieve their professional goals. These are not just words – 50% of our Danish office colleagues are expats from 20+ different nationalities. We offer a hybrid workplace model that combines in-office work with remote work possibilities to provide flexibility and support to our employees. **Key Responsibilities:** • Engage with and manage clients within Innovation • Design and write top-class proposals • Deliver superior insights and actionable recommendations to help clients succeed in their strategy and marketing decisions • Present confidently and conduct workshops with stakeholders at all levels • Manage client relationships and satisfaction for assigned clients and new business • Collaborate effectively with Ipsos colleagues to ensure quality and client management • Support training activities and knowledge sharing • Mentor senior colleagues and act as a role model for junior staff • Manage projects effectively with understanding of project profitability drivers **You Are Curious, Inspiring and Trustworthy** Our mission is to deliver reliable information for a true understanding of Society, Markets and People. Excellence in this Director role requires passion, dedication, and drive. Your most important qualities should include reliability, empathy, inspiration and genuine curiosity. You must know how to create engagement, build connections and generate results based on trust – for our clients and among your colleagues. To succeed, you need an analytical mind that helps you contextualize findings, foresee challenges and identify solutions. You should have strong conceptual understanding of market research techniques and principles, particularly focused on innovation research including concept, product, and package testing. You must understand client environments, commercial issues, industry structures and societal context, with strong multitasking, prioritization and delivery capabilities. You should possess natural flair for managing various project stakeholders. **Requirements:** • University degree in economics or marketing preferred • Minimum 7 years of experience working with quantitative market research • Fluent written and spoken English (our common company language) **About the Team** The Innovation Service Line guides clients throughout their innovation journey as they develop and launch new or improved products and services across various verticals. We help clients develop initial product/service ideas, ensure fully articulated descriptions resonate with consumers, confirm prototypes properly deliver on consumer expectations, and fine-tune the full mix prior to launch. This is accomplished using best-in-class services, including idea screening, concept testing, product testing, price and line optimization, package testing and volumetric forecasting. **Your Opportunity to Make a Difference is Here** We will be conducting interviews on an ongoing basis. Application deadline is February 1st, 2026.