Principal Consultant - EMEA Consulting team

As a Principal Consultant, you will play a pivotal role in designing, selling and delivering custom research projects, spending around 75% of your time on either business development or billable project work. You'll be working closely with our lead client partners and our most senior account directors to proactively identify new high-value opportunities among our strategic client accounts, and then turning these opportunities into compelling, innovative proposals. You'll also be playing a role in delivering these projects, managing stakeholders and ensuring that projects are delivered on time and to budget.Whilst this role doesn't have direct line management responsibilities, you'll be regarded as a leader across Mintel. You will be leading individual project teams to ensure work is delivered to a high quality, and you'll acting as a coach and mentor to other members of the team. You'll also play a major role in raising awareness of Mintel's Consulting offering in the broader marketplace, creating insightful, strategic and engaging proactive content that showcases the best of Mintel's thinking. Taking a lead role in growing the team's revenue and margins by identifying, designing and converting high-value research proposals. What We Are Looking For: We have a wish list, but we are always open to looking at different profiles for our roles, so please don't hesitate in applying even if your experience does not check all of the boxes. Project management skills: - You are a lateral thinker, an intuitive dot-connector, and have experience weaving compelling narratives through data across a wide range of categories.You have solid familiarity with different research methodologies, and working knowledge of when and how to apply them to a given client challenge. You should have expertise working with complex data sets, and strong data analysis skills are a must.Experience of the CPG sector, and of the innovation processMany of our projects involve supporting our clients throughout the innovation process, from identifying early consumer signals all the way through to concept generation. Direct experience of the CPG innovation process, either client- or agency-side, would be a major advantage.