Senior Research Specialist (12-Month Contract)

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Are you a kid at heart looking to build a career with a leading global children's toy, entertainment and digital gaming company?

At Spin Master, our unwavering commitment to open mindedness, integrity and innovation is a great part of what has made us an industry leader. How do we stay ahead of the pack? By hiring the best and brightest minds—and that’s why we want you!

What will you work on?

The Senior Research Specialist will be responsible for identifying, developing and implementing strategic Qualitative and Quantitative research programs to support revenue growth across our Global Business Units. These programs will include, but are not limited to, consumer segmentation, product development evaluation, shopper analysis, play pattern identification, and marketing communications analysis.

How will you create impact?

• Manage/execute consumer and sensory research
• Develop tools, scorecards, and presentations driven by category
• Translate data and information into actionable insights and business recommendations utilizing best in class “story telling” and engaging communication
• Leverage manage supplier relationships to maximize quality and value (on a project by project basis)
• Facilitate communication between Consumer Insights Team and key business stakeholders (Global Business Unit Leaders and other cross functional units)
• Translate marketing and consumer research and insights into actionable customer specific communication, category and Market plans
• Manage the global market research budget per project, leading multiple projects concurrently
• Provide marketing research project leadership through identification of appropriate research objectives, methodologies and provides actionable recommendations to the business teams

What are your skills and experience?

• 5+ years of experience in market research – preferably both client and supplier side
• Extensive knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies/techniques

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What You Can Expect From Us

Our mission is to Make Life More Fun with a vision to push the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun.

• Innovation, Collaboration and Fun
• Other fun Perks!
• Comprehensive Benefits
• Flexible Work Hours
• Growth and Career Opportunities

What’s it like to work here?

Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making; though our challenging start-up atmosphere isn’t for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.

Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.

Spin Master strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes. Should you require an accommodation, please contact our Talent Acquisition team, by email at [email protected] or by phone at 416 364-6002 and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

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We do appreciate all interest; however only those selected for interview will be contacted.