Marketing Research Associate

**Environics Offers**:
Environics delivers evidence-based solutions to clients working in a range of sectors and industries. Our team is drawn from a number of disciplines—from business and marketing to sociology and urban affairs. This mix makes Environics a creative and intellectually vibrant research consultancy, where methodological rigour and unrivaled analytical capabilities come together. Our experience, our people, and our sophisticated tool kit help our clients get answers to their most important questions. As a company, we value and invest in developing our people, and embrace a flexible and autonomous work culture.

**About the Team - Market Strategy**:
The Market Strategy team at Environics Research in Toronto is looking for someone to join our team. Market Strategy is a consumer lifestyle focused practice offering strategic insight and direction to clients across a range of industries, including consumer goods and services, technology/ecommerce, travel and tourism, real estate, arts, culture and media. Rooted in our keen perception and tool kit for understanding human behaviours and motivations, our group approaches every issue with unshakeable curiosity and creativity to deliver strategic, research-based counsel that helps clients target and engage meaningfully with their customers or audiences. As consultants and problem-solvers, we synthesize a range of data from disparate sources to draw out the critical conclusions. From branding, product/service development, and communications to customer experience, market context, and target market profiling, we help our clients make smart decisions by acting on the evidence.

**The Position**:
The Market Strategy team operates with an entrepreneurial spirit, within a collaborative, flexible and dynamic work environment. Within the role, you will contribute to our team across all aspects of the project lifecycle, including proposal/pitch, research design, project management, interpretation and analysis, reporting, presentations, and client consultation. This position provides the opportunity to work with consultants and clients and offers plenty of room for skills development and career advancement.

**You Have**:

- A post-secondary degree, preferably in business, marketing, or social sciences
- Foundational training in market research methods, business intelligence, data analytics, etc. from a Research Analyst Program or similar
- Experience working with a range of research inquiry, discovery, qualitative and quantitative methods
- A proven ability to effectively work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment
- A strong attention to detail, organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple clients and/or projects at once
- Demonstrated analytical and data synthesis abilities, from designing research all the way to interpretation and presentation
- Strong communication, data visualization, story-telling skills, and the ability to comfortably present to a range of audiences
- Demonstrated client-service and relationship-building skills

**Within 6 months you will**:

- Be exposed to a range of client problems that demand out-of-the box thinking and creative problem solving.
- Work hands on with data used by a range of organizations and brands to determine marketing and business strategies based on human-driven insights.
- Experience life at a forward-thinking research agency that thrives on a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and entrepreneurship.
- Solve a difficult problem that you never imagined you would encounter. And enjoy every minute of it.