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Title: Creative Research Consultant, Lightspeed GMI Location: Munich, Germany Business Description: We Make Research Easy. You Make the Difference. Lightspeed GMI, an award-winning global digital data collections enterprise, strives to be the voice of the consumer in a digital world. With a solid presence in Europe, Africa and Middle East, we’re capturing what consumers think, see and do across these markets. Founded in 1996, our innovative technology and proven sampling methodologies deliver operational excellence throughout the entire online research process. We’ve grown from small ideas into a truly global business. That journey has been possible because of our talent and commitment to employees. We are constantly seeking innovative individuals who are as strategic as they are creative in their approach to work. We are committed to empowering our employees and we want our staff to realize their full potential. Headquartered in Warren, New Jersey, Lightspeed GMI is part of the Kantar Group, the insight, information and consultancy division of WPP, the world leader in marketing communication services. With more than 700 staff situated in 14 countries. Want to know more about Lightspeed GMI? We welcome you on our website www.lightspeedgmi.com   Job Summary & Responsibilities:  We are looking for a bright & creative person with a real passion for research to help take up an important new role across our 3 German offices to act as advisor to our clients on how to create better online surveys. We don’t expect you to be a total expert on this topic yet but you must be willing to jump in and learn. In this role you will be expected to become immersed in research theory and learn all about how to design better surveys and have the confidence to pass on and communicate this advice to our clients. It is also a creative position, it’s not just about knowing the theory, you will have to come up with ideas and solutions based on this theory and put it into practice. We are looking for someone with an understanding of design aesthetics and ergonomics too, because how a survey looks and the ease with which it can be completed on a PC, Tablet and Smartphone are important factors too.   The job will afford you some freedom to conduct your own research experiments to help road test out the ideas and solutions you are proposing for our clients which we hope would turn you into a thought leader in the industry. You may be a researcher looking for your next career move or an academic in the research field looking to stretch your legs in the commercial arena.  You may be from a completely unrelated science or arts background but we would expect you to have some understanding of psychology and behavioral economics. You should have a good command of maths, be able to write and communicate well and demonstrate you can stand up and present to a group of people with some authority (though you may not have done this before). In your role you will be working closely with the Sales team for and with our clients across Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. We expect you to have a pro-active creative hands-on mentality spending most of your time advising our clients, either 1:1 or through workshops and seminars, on how to create better online surveys on any device and getting more value out of their online research. It should be a fun and interesting job and you will be able define your own path, so you will have to be a self starter and be