Hybrid Manager – Creative Excellence

at Ipsos North America

• Job title: Manager – Creative Excellence
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Hamburg, Germany

About the role

• Manager leading CRE teams at Ipsos, a global market research firm focusing on improving advertising effectiveness. Overseeing projects and client relationships while fostering team development.

Responsibilities

• You lead one of our CRE teams both functionally and disciplinarily (personnel planning, development, talent management, and serving as a role model for our most important resource – our employees)
• You implement company objectives within the team and for clients.
• You take charge of client relationship management and actively acquire new clients.
• You are responsible for your team’s revenue and results.
• You promote cross-selling activities — both within the team and across departments.
• You are responsible for developing research concepts and preparing proposals.
• You conduct analyses, derive recommendations for action, and moderate presentations and workshops with clients.

Requirements

• You have several years of professional experience in strategic and quantitative market research, advertising or media research, media planning, or strategic consulting — e.g., in an advertising agency or a comparable environment.
• You have solid experience managing national and international research projects.
• You think analytically, work in a structured way, and excel in communication and organizational skills.
• You have a strong interest in and understanding of advertising, brand management, and the creative industry.
• You act as a trusted advisor with strong consulting skills and a high level of client orientation.
• You bring sales strength, negotiation skills, and enjoy developing and expanding new clients, ideally also in selling platform-based market research solutions.
• You demonstrate high initiative, assertiveness, and flexibility.
• You are a team player and a leader who motivates others and achieves goals together.
• You are fluent in German and English.

Benefits

• Individual onboarding
• Wide range of international online training
• 30 days of vacation and the option to purchase additional days
• Flexible working hours
• Mobile working
• Company bike
• Ipsos corporate benefits for our employees
• Contribution toward the Deutschlandticket (Germany public transport pass)
• Workation