Research Talent Hub

Our strategic HIRING SOLUTIONS will help you start a project, find mid-to-senior talent, craft a succession planning strategy, or scope the market for a new executive/non-executive appointment. 

We offer ON-DEMAND hires, EXECUTIVE SEARCH solutions, or PROJECT STYLE assignments (including bespoke Intelligence Studies i.e. Compensation & Benefits or Competitor Insights/Market Mapping). 

We tailor each project to specific requirements and adapt our rigorous Search Methodology accordingly.

We work in close collaboration with hand-picked clients to attract TOP TALENT, ensuring growth, team retention, and a competitive advantage. 

Our sweet spot includes market research agencies, innovation and cultural insights boutiques, transformational (brand-led) growth or innovation consultancies, ESG strategy firms, and emerging, fast-scaling res-tech start-ups and scale-ups (AI-powered insights platforms).

🟡 If you would like to discuss our search methodology and successfully completed assignments in more detail, please book a 30-minute video call with Joanna --> https://calendly.com/research-talent-hub/30min.

🟠 Some of the critical searches we successfully completed include:

• Strategic Insights Manager / Director
• Senior Researcher 
• VP Global Head of Research 
• CEO
• Director of Data & Intelligence 
• Head of Behavioural Strategy 
• Social Insights Manager / Director
• Research Manager 
• Strategy Director
• Research Director
• Head of Research (Insight Department)
• Commercial Director
• Head of Cultural Insights
• Associate Research Director
• Head of AI Innovation
• Advanced Analytics Head
• Cultural Insights Director
• VP Behavioural Insights
• Customer Success Manager

Talent Search Partners to Market Research, Innovation/Growth Strategy & Res-Tech Agency Founders/MDs

Career Coaching Hub

💗 I'm delighted to extend a special invitation for a COMPLIMENTARY Career Consulting or Career Coaching workshop. 

This exclusive package includes a 60-minute session following an initial 30-minute Discovery Call, totalling 90 minutes of personalised guidance, to a select group of candidates who commit to working EXCLUSIVELY with me through Research Talent Hub. Please ping me to find out more! 💗

What's the main difference between Career COACHING and Career CONSULTING?

Imagine you are learning how to ride a bicycle. 🚲

A Career Consultant would ride a bike for a while and give you 'How to Manual', aka a successful Job-Hunting strategy or tactics for writing a winning CV, LinkedIn Optimisation or how to wing that Interview!

A Transformational Career Coach would get you on the bicycle and walk alongside you, guiding you through the process until you feel confident enough to ride on your own!

CAREER CONSULTING might be better for you if you need to achieve your career goals quickly and with minimum fuss. I use various career consulting services that give you the tools for success.

CAREER COACHING is your longer-term investment to achieve your career goals. I will guide and inspire you so you can kick start achieving more of your personal and professional goals.

Transformational Career Coach 

Lipton Fleming (now Source)

Launched, developed and successfully run Market Research Agency focused recruitment practice at Lipton Fleming building on personal, long-established clients and candidates’ relationships in the market research industry.

Helped to plan and manage the careers of many talented qualitative and quantitative researchers and insight/social media intelligence & research operations professionals at all levels. 

I've met a lot of amazing and inspiring people in the industry. Thank you for allowing me to help you achieve your long-term goals: your success represents my success as a market research recruiter.

Made a lot of market research/insight/brand consultancies and media owners genuinely happy. I introduced amazing talent to their teams (I am very proud of this)! We've worked closely together to achieve it though (you have to) and had some great appointments as a result.

Market Research & Insight - Managing Consultant

Boyce Recruitment

Established and run a highly successful Market Research/Consumer Insight division to broaden Boyce Recruitment offering in the market place. 

I have successfully placed market research & insight professionals at all levels from Graduate Trainee to Managing Director into a broad range of consultancies, client companies and agencies in Research/Insight/Consultancy or Field/Operations/Data Processing positions. 

Provided market & career consultancy to clients and candidates within the market research/insight/analytics industry including market/salary/competitors assessment briefings and CV & Interview Surgery meetings.

Networked at various industry related events including Research Conferences or MRS Members evenings.

Developed a detailed knowledge of market research and market research recruitment issues through appropriate reading, seminars, networking events and practical experience.

Senior Market Research & Insight Consultant

Harrods

As Harrods Executive Management Trainee I was fortunate enough to work across different teams and participated in their structured post-graduate retail study programme. I enjoyed learning new skills and continuously adapting to the needs of diverse teams. I received an on-going training across different areas of the business including Recruitment & HR, Marketing, Sales, Seasonal Events & Project Management. 

Some of the things I’ve accomplished: 

Worked in Recruitment & HR division, gaining experience in interviewing techniques including Competency Based Interviewing. Learned HR policies & procedures including Discipline & Grievance, Sickness, Maternity & Absence and Equal Opportunities etc.

Undertook an independent project investigating the opportunities for marketing Whitehall’s beauty rooms. Analysed managers’ approach to acquisition & retention, financial performance, the appeal of rooms and competition. Recommendations included innovative concepts aimed at promoting beauty rooms.

Executive Management Trainee (Graduate Trainee Scheme)

I am not just a recruiter; I am a strategic partner, the antipode to your hiring headaches in the market research, insights, res-tech, innovation or ESG strategy, and brand-led growth consulting sectors. 

Proudly partnering with some of the world's most innovative companies, I specialise in CRITICAL, CONFIDENTIAL and CHALLENGING HIRES that drive progress in research, transformational business strategy, and innovation.

If you had to work on a 'no win, no fee' basis, the quality of your work would probably be poor.

Research Director, Consultancy Partner, Managing Director, Founder — whatever you do for a living, you and your team provide your clients with expertise so they don't need to do it themselves. You respond to their needs and deliver projects professionally. And you are held responsible for that service.

Recruitment is often not like that.

To be fair, a no-win-no-fee approach CAN work in recruitment - for relatively straightforward, low-level hires, your 'doers' in the team if you want it fast, and there is less at stake for a bad hire. 

But for strategic, high-level, senior, confidential or niche hires with fee generation or management - you need to approach it as you would do any professional project. You need to trust a skilled expert who will plan your project, deliver it and be accountable to you throughout the entire process. 

Also, it helps that I have over 15 years of knowledge and experience in strategic talent acquisition and career consulting/coaching in market research & insights, innovation strategy, brand growth strategy consulting, and increasingly in AI-led Insights Platforms & ESG strategy (and many highly inspirational, long-term partners!). You will be in safe hands. 

🟠 RESEARCH TALENT HUB 🟠

Our strategic HIRING SOLUTIONS will help you start a project, find mid-to-senior talent, craft a succession planning strategy, or scope the market for a new executive/non-executive appointment. 

We offer ON-DEMAND hires, EXECUTIVE SEARCH solutions, or PROJECT STYLE assignments (including bespoke Intelligence Studies i.e. Compensation & Benefits or Competitor Insights/Market Mapping). 

We tailor each project to specific requirements and adapt our rigorous Search Methodology accordingly.

We work in close collaboration with hand-picked clients to attract TOP TALENT, ensuring growth, team retention, and a competitive advantage. 

🟡 If you would like to discuss our methodology and successfully completed assignments in more detail, please book a 30-minute video call with Joanna --> https://calendly.com/research-talent-hub/30min.

Joanna Byerley

Future Studio

Future Studio creates mixed methods freelance teams to solve brands' problems

Co-Founder

Moresight

Solving marketing problems using consumer insight, brand strategy, and scenario planning, for the likes of The Arts Council, Coloplast, Dorset County Council, Electronic Arts, Constellation Brands, Diageo, Ivy Farm, Ikea, Meta, The North Face, PayPal, Pepsico, Pladis, Simmer and Southwark Council.

Strategist

Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design

Teaching students about insight, brand, strategy and scenario planning.

Visiting Lecturer

The 30 Minute - University of Planning

Mentor

London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London

Associate Lecturer - strategy, research and scenario planning

I cycled over 2500km from Greece to The Netherlands, passing through Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary, Austria and Germany on the way. FYI there are a lot of different cakes and cheeses in Europe.

Cyclist 

The Sound: Exploration Strategy Innovation

Partner

I set up The Sound's first office in Asia, servicing domestic clients, multinationals operating in India, and regional and global clients. The business grew to a team of 8 working on projects across the region, and I personally led critical projects in India and across APAC. 

Clients/projects included: 

Market entry strategy and value proposition for Facebook
Brand positioning for Hotstar
Corporate brand strategy for Star TV
Brand positioning for Tinder
Denim innovation for Lee Jeans
U&A and product innovation for Android One
Brand strategy and creative development for Pixel 2
Segmentation illumination for Google Australia
Strategy and value proposition for Google App in Japan and Indonesia
Strategy for Google Play in Taiwan and Japan
Global brand strategy and creative development for Vans
Global positioning for Facebook

Managing Director, India

Designing and running strategy and insight projects, advising on outcomes and implications. I worked on on significant strategic and tactical challenges, including: 

Global brand positioning for Timberland
Influencer target understanding for Vans
Creative development for Vans
Global creative development for Axe
Creative development for the Rugby World Cup
Pan-european creative development for Nestle Purina
Product innovation for Beam Global
Unlocking South African masculinity for Axe
Own brand positioning for Sainsbury's 
TU UX and consumer understanding for Sainsbury's 
Content strategy and UX for Sainsbury's

Director

Business development and project work, including: 

Creative development in Russia for Kraft Belvita
UK consumer exploration for Smirnoff and Captain Morgan
Consumer exploration and creative development for Guinness Africa
Product and retail innovation exploration in the US for Pernod Ricard
Global creative development for Absolut
Creative development for Dove
Concept and comms development for Hellmann's
Understanding contemporary femininity for Baileys
Unlocking the lads' night in for KFC
Exploring family takeaway rituals for KFC
Innovation workshop for Doritos
Brand positioning and semiotic understanding of biscuits for McVities
Understanding the relationship between pleasure and skincare for Unilever in the US and India

Associate Director

Account Planning Group India

The Account Planning Group is the authority in advertising and communications strategy, and exists to improve the practice and profile of communications planning.

Head

London College of Fashion

LCF asked me to deliver a series of lectures and workshops designed to broaden student's skillsets by teaching them about the branding, insight and the relationship between the two.

Special Lecturer

Crowd DNA

Business development and project work, including: 

UK Tribes, the groundbreaking study of UK youth subcultures for Channel 4 
Exploring the mechanics of word of mouth and influence for The Guardian
Running the "semi-official" blog for the PlayStation 3

Played a critical role in setting up and establishing Crowd DNA

Account and Business Development Manager

I'm an award-winning brand strategist and consumer researcher, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. I also teach strategy and scenario planning at London College of Fashion and Conde Nast Fashion Academy.

I've led numerous global insight, brand strategy and innovation projects in technology, fashion, alcohol and FMCG, and have on-the-ground experience leading projects and fieldwork all over the world

In 2015 I left London to open an office in Mumbai, where I lived for the next two and half years. It was the hardest but also the most rewarding thing I've ever done. Over my time in Mumbai I grew the business from one person borrowing a desk in an advertising agency's office, to a team of eight working on brand strategy, insight and innovation projects across APAC.

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