Managing Director - Research

Managing Director - Research

CRA | Admired Leadership seeks an experienced research professional with seasoned client skills to join our advisory practice as a Managing Director. With world class-colleagues, access to 25 years of proprietary research-based content, a sterling list of Fortune 100 clients, and the opportunity to lead and grow your own team and line of business within the firm, we offer a place where expertise matters, entrepreneurs thrive, and collegiality and relationships reign. If you aspire to work with the best and advise the best, please apply.

About CRA | Admired Leadership

As a consulting firm, CRA | Admired Leadership advises leaders and practitioners on their most crucial institutional challenges and opportunities. Our client list includes 26 of the Fortune 100, many of whom have worked with us for well over a decade. While no engagement is the same as the next, clients often seek our guidance when driving strategy, evolving culture, navigating crises, and leading through change. For many of these engagements, the ability to gather, analyze, and draw discerning conclusions from qualitative and quantitative data is central, and organizational research has been central to our work since our founding in 1986. Thanks to our ability to un-complicate the complicated, offer practical solutions to pressing problems, and ensure its about our clients and not us, most of our work comes from repeat clients and direct referrals. For our clients’ trust and confidence, we are grateful. We love doing this work, and we love doing it together.

Role Description

As a Research Managing Director, you will lead and work on a variety of projects that involve the gathering, interpretation, and presentation of data and findings for clients. Typical engagements include:

• Measuring employee understanding of and alignment to corporate strategy.
• The tracking of key employee attitudes and believes over time, especially related to institutional changes like mergers or divestitures.
• Message testing and evaluation.
• Culture assessments, including assessment of current and desired organization values.
• Communication audits, including communication needs and preferences and the utility of communication channels.
• Elevating organizational performance by conducting employee cross evaluations tailored to the client’s industry and culture.
• Gauging stakeholder (whether internal clients or customers) perceptions of efforts and services.
• The atypical engagement, as we have over 30 years’ experience designing bespoke research approaches to distinctive client questions, problems, and opportunities.

Our Managing Directors do not execute work for others in a back-office manner. It is a client-facing role, and you would develop and own your own clients and projects and be compensated in a manner directly commensurate with the revenue you create. With time you will manage your own P&L within our firm and lead a team of consultants supporting your client work.

Essential Attributes

• A desire for independence within a community with like-minded colleagues who are eager to watch you flourish.
• A strong value for relationships and an appreciation of the importance and nuances of successful client and colleague relationships.
• Curiosity and a strong sense of self-motivation.
• Unshakable confidence, tempered by the humility that learning requires.
• An extraordinary work ethic and self-drive.
• A passion for understanding people and solving problems, often with little pre-existing context.
• An entrepreneurial spirit balanced by collegiality and a collaborative approach.
• A reputation for discerning advice and thought leadership.
• A strong value for excellence and a desire to seek the highest good for your clients as a primary principle.