Senior Researcher- Solutions and Advisory, Enterprise Solutions - London or Leeds
Hays Solutions and Advisory, is part of Hays Enterprise Solutions. We offer a portfolio of staffing, advisory and skills services that enables the seamless transformation of all workforce requirements. As a steadfast and reliable leadership partner in staffing and workforce solutions, we leverage our truly global scale and experience, extensive talent networks and unparalleled expertise to propel organisations towards success. Founded on our core brand values - building partnerships, thinking beyond, and doing the right thing - Hays Solutions and Advisory combines meaningful innovation with global scale and insight to help people and organisations succeed.
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Your Role
Hays Solutions and Advisory is seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Senior Researcher to join our dynamic team. This quality driven research offering is highly regarded by its clients and has developed and grown extensively over the last few years and now has a need to appoint a Senior Researcher to our team to support in the provision of market intelligence and benchmarking consultancy services.
What it looks like day to day:
- You will work collaboratively with the Sales/Business Lead, playing a key role in the delivery of Client led research, offering specialist knowledge and insight, based on a combination of desk-based research and telephone networking. You will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on Client's remuneration, reward, and workforce strategies across an array of sectors, industries, and levels, including Board level.
- Through effective communication, rapport building skills and quality driven approach, you will be able to utilise a variety of research tools, as well as identify and engage with a broad range of individuals, to gather niche specialist market Intelligence
- At Senior level you will consult directly with clients, both with the Sales/Business Lead and independently, developing a commercial approach to business development and client delivery. This will allow the Senior Researcher to support the Sales/Business Lead in making informed recommendations to. In addition to this, you will have the opportunity to provide mentorship to the other junior Researchers in the team. This will allow them to build their business acumen and in turn develop their research skills.
What you'll need to succeed:
- Previous Experience in a Researcher role in a benchmarking environment.
- Previous experience as an Executive Search resource, or Market Intelligence consultancy role would be highly advantageous
- A confident communicator who is conscientious, organised, inquisitive and solutions orientated, you will drive high levels of customer service, tenacity, and creativity.
- You will be required to operate in a quality driven environment where attention to detail and strong written/verbal communication is paramount.
- Have prior HR or business consultancy exposure.
What you will get in return:
- Culture built on rewarding success and the opportunity to influence your earning potential.
- Best technology in the industry and a renowned training programme to support success and drive rapid career progression and ongoing development.
- Flexible hybrid working patterns.
- Opportunity to take your career globally.
- Incentives and rewards to recognise performance both locally, regionally, and nationally.
- Broad range of employee wellbeing initiatives and benefits
- Referral bonus scheme
- Community of support networks from Hays Pride to Parents@Hays
- Paid charity day for all employees #HaysHelps and working closely with charity partners.
Life at Hays presents the opportunity for growth, varied career paths, exciting challenges and a culture of inclusion that celebrates diversity If you're thinking of a new tomorrow for your career, let's work together to create it!
At Hays, we share a passion for creating a culture of opportunities for our people to flourish and succeed, whatever your background. We know that diversity of perspective and an inclusive approach, which encourages those experiences and views to be heard, is great for business and therefore your career.
At Hays, we share a passion for creating a culture where there are opportunities for our people to flourish and succeed, whatever your background. We know that diversity of perspective and an inclusive approach, which encourages those experiences and views to be heard, is great for business and therefore your career with us.