Manager équipe étude (Team Lead Research Consulting) - France (m/f/d)

Your mission as a Team Lead Research Consulting

As Team Lead, you will play a key role in building and guiding our dynamic team in the French region. You will foster team development through market research expertise and a commitment to exceeding client expectations. Your responsibilities include guiding and supporting our Researchers in their market research projects and helping them grow as researchers and as people. You will also advise and coach key clients through the entire market research process, from methodology selection to results interpretation, acting as a sparring partner and inspiring clients with customer‑centric, agile research, and innovative methodologies.

Additionally, you will collaborate closely with the international Research Leadership Team on strategic projects that drive organizational and research excellence. You can expect to spend around 60% of your time on management and strategy and 40% on hands‑on work with key clients and their projects.

What you’ll be doing

• Leadership and Team Development:
  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of smart and caring Researchers
  • Foster a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and innovation within the team
  • Provide regular feedback and support to help team members achieve their professional goals
• Strategic Development:
  • Collaborate with Research Leads from other countries & departments to push strategic initiatives across the whole company
  • Build scalable and effortless processes to facilitate, e.g., project management and cross‑team collaboration
  • Think 10x and bring new ideas and ways of working to the team
• Client Engagement:
  • Act as a sparring partner for a variety of clients in the creation, adaptation, and analysis of market research projects
  • Conceptualize study designs and bespoke questionnaires across multiple use cases
  • Interpret market research results to provide actionable recommendations to clients; present results to customers
• Project Management:
  • Ensure seamless cooperation with the Research Operations team in setting up questionnaires and fieldwork on the Appinio platform
  • Collaborate closely with the Account Management team to implement initial projects for new customers

You will thrive in this role if

• Have 6+ years of experience in market research and consulting B2B clients, with strong knowledge of quantitative methods and statistics
• Have experience designing studies, writing questionnaires, and working across various research methods and use cases
• Bring a strategic and commercially minded approach, translating insights into business impact for clients
• Have 3+ years of leadership experience with a proven track record of leading high‑performing teams, particularly in significant turnaround or fast scale‑up environments
• Communicate confidently, clearly, and transparently in both French and English, facilitating seamless interactions across diverse teams and stakeholders
• Possess a hands‑on mentality, pragmatism, proactivity, and an affinity for numbers and data
• Be comfortable rolling up your sleeves to set up scalable frameworks and processes
• Have a cooperative and caring attitude

Our interview process

• Screening Call with a Team Lead RC France
• Case Study Interview with our Research Consulting Leadership team
• Stakeholder Interview with our General Manager France
• Executive Interview with C‑Level
• Reference Calls
• Offer

What’s in it for you?

• Flexibility Policy – No hard cap on the number of vacation days
• Temporary work from abroad – If you're based in the EU, you can work outside your country of residence for up to 180 days per year
• All the hardware you need and your own MacBook
• Mobility support for Hamburg or Berlin employees – Deutschland ticket or mobility budget with the NAVIT app
• Subsidised Urban Sports Club or ClassPass membership based on location
• Co‑working space access in major cities (Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, London, Madrid, Barcelona, New York)

Please ensure that your application is submitted in English.

Appinio is an equal‑opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.