Vice President, Media Research Lead

Responsibilities

• Lead media research products, services, and processes across clients, ensuring scalable delivery and high-quality research outputs.
• Translate audience insights, competitive audits, spend analysis, and industry research into clear recommendations for clients and internal stakeholders.
• Develop differentiated research approaches that strengthen strategy, channel planning, activation, new business, and cross-disciplinary decision-making.
• Evaluate research tools, platforms, vendors, contracts, and investment cases in partnership with Procurement and Contracts to improve business outcomes.
• Build and mentor a high-performing Media Research team through onboarding, resource planning, professional development, and future capability planning.
• Required:
• 10+ years of experience leading media research, audience intelligence, competitive intelligence, or media strategy within healthcare, pharma, life sciences, agency, or client services contexts.
• 5+ years of people leadership experience building, mentoring, and managing research, insights, media, or strategy teams with measurable team growth or capability outcomes.
• Senior-level experience presenting research insights, POVs, and recommendations to clients, executives, media teams, strategy teams, or cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience managing vendor relationships, research platform evaluations, contracts, billing, invoicing, or ROI cases tied to research tools and services.
• Portfolio or work examples showing how research outputs informed media strategy, channel planning, activation, new business, or measurable business outcomes.
• Desired:
• Comfort and enthusiasm for using AI as a regular part of how work gets done.
• Experience leading research innovation, new platform implementation, or third-party research service evaluation across a multi-client portfolio.
• Experience supporting growth, sales, or new business efforts through audience, market, category, competitor, or industry research.
• Experience in healthcare media, pharmaceutical marketing, regulated communications, or life sciences client engagements.
• Experience improving research operations, resource planning, team billability, or scalable delivery models across multiple stakeholder groups.
• This posting is for an existing vacancy at Klick.
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Additional Information

As Vice President, Research, this role leads Media Research & Intelligence across Klick, ensuring research tools, audience insights, competitive intelligence, and strategic recommendations are applied consistently across client work and new business. This leader partners closely with Media, Strategy, Client Services, Creative, Analytics, Ad Ops, Growth, Procurement, and Contracts to strengthen media strategy, planning, activation, and business impact.

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