Insights Manager, Thought Leadership

The Opportunity

We are looking for a thought leadership and insights expert with a proven track record to join HP’s global measurement and insights team, to lead thought leadership on work culture around the world.

The successful candidate will have a passion and aptitude for all stages of thought leadership and thrive on taking responsibility for a high-profile workstream. We offer the opportunity to work with the most senior leaders at HP and make significant contributions to HP’s efforts to build strategy and products based on insight. The role requires a candidate who can manage research partners, analyse data, develop insights, and create varied, compelling content for internal and external stakeholders. The role requires strong detail orientation, analytical skills, a passion for research and uncovering insights and trends, and the desire to contribute impact through thought leadership.

Responsibilities

• Become HP’s foremost expert on work culture thought leadership with an understanding of global nuances
• Finds and summarises potential trends derived from media, online sources, academia, and podcasts to enrich and validate our future of work research program
• Use creative approaches and questions to validate potential trends we observe around the world
• Lead the relationship with the key research partner on this topic, from project-managing primary research across multiple countries through to delivery of annual findings
• Analyse data to generate insights, uncover trends and country-nuances, build compelling stories on how work culture is evolving, and what that means for technology
• Synthesise desk and primary research results into thought leadership content, such as reports, articles, keynote presentations, press releases, infographics, talk-tracks for executive presentations/interviews/client meetings etc.
• Collaborate with a wide variety of internal teams and stakeholders to deliver compelling content
  
  

Candidate Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as business, research, or equivalent work experience.
• Typically, 7+ years thought leadership, editorial, and insights experience
• Demonstrated ability to manage all stages of thought leadership (including research design and agency management, analysis of data, publishing papers, and producing and presenting content)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability and confidence to present to, influence, and lead discussions with executive level stakeholders
• Creative thinker who can work with complex data to shape original and impactful storylines
• Strong research skills, including the ability to analyse and interpret qual and quant data from various sources to make meaningful connections and discoveries
• Comfortable working with large quant data sets from quant research
• Self-motivated, agile, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment to deadlines
• Knowledge of the technology category and B2B is preferred but not essential
• Experience working in global teams or across multiple countries is preferred but not essential
  
  

LOCATION:

• London or Reading (but flexible to collaborate with stakeholders around the world)
• Occasional travel may be required
  
  

Team Structure

• Part of HP’s marketing organisation, with the role reporting to the head of market insights
• Individual contributor role in a geographically diverse team
  
  

Disclaimer

• This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.