Principal Researcher

3 weeks ago


Manchester, United Kingdom KPMG-UnitedKingdom Full time

**Job description**

Lead Principal Researcher

KPMG is looking for a Research lead with the passion for helping organisations deal with market trends, Innovation and Digital Transformation.

The research capability is a part of the Digital team at KMPG, working together with our Design, Innovation and Enterprise Agility teams, to bring together our consulting, connected technology and sector practices and deliver end to end transformation.

Our team is collaborative and focuses on building digital products and services using a user-driven, agile approach. We work lean, and take an approach of using prototypes and data, continuous iteration, curiosity, and a small team with big autonomy mentality, working with and within large organisations.

This role aims to bring together the digital competencies of data, market trends, design and (emerging) technology, and the lead is there to bring clients together with KPMG capabilities, and frame or reframe value propositions for customers, as well as employee experiences, embrace and leverage innovation and emerging technologies, and keep evolving business and customer strategies. The focus of the role will be aligned to a sector and enhance KPMG's voice for in the digital space.

**As a Research Lead**:

- You will be responsible for design research and support the development of the practice.
- You will be defining which methodologies are best to answer different client needs and questions.
- Ensure the qualitative work is grounded in a deep and contextual understanding of what matters to the people we are designing for.
- Ensure the quantitative work is empirical by nature and obtains statistical rigor when understanding people's behaviours and attitudes.
- Lead design research activities including research planning, fieldwork execution, analysis, synthesis, research story, and deliverables.
- Define design research plans based on relevant research and business objectives.
- Support new business efforts by providing expert information in pitch efforts and client meetings.
- You will be highly collaborative working with consultants, research, analysts, developers, and technologists and able to use mixed methods to bring integrated value to our clients.
- You can plan, execute, analyse, synthesize, deliverable creation.
- You will be a good communicator and confident in presenting your work and interacting with in our design community

**What you need to bring with you**:

- Extensive experience of delivering research strategy's, methodologies, and approaches to clients
- Relevant experience in conducting different aspects of qualitative and quantitative design research.
- Ability to present and have excellent communication skill
- Experience of design research leadership and / or managerial experience
- Experience in accessibility research
- A highly collaborative attitude
- A passion and interest in current technology and design trends

**Desired skills**
- Experience in conducting different aspects of qualitative and quantitative design research such as planning, executing, analysis, synthesis, deliverable creation; experience of design research leadership and / or managerial experience
- Able to lead research activities for: recruiting processes; scheduling and logistics; protocol development; analysis and framework development; video compilations; research deliverables.
- Experience in testing for and accessibility audience


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