Business Portfolio Leader

Summary

Join us in the office for catered lunch on Tuesdays and Wednesdays or grab a beverage from the fridge for an impromptu after-work happy hour! Morning Consult is looking for an ambitious, entrepreneurial business leader to manage and grow a diverse client service portfolio and team ($15M+ annual revenue). This role will lead a high-performance client service team dedicated to delivering quality data and strategic custom insights to inform critical business decisions.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience
• Success in a general management role for a large, high-growth team
• Experience in financial management, financial reporting and forecasting
• Strong team leadership skills with an ability to scale and develop top talent and promote a positive work experience
• Proven ability to engage executive stakeholders with confidence, earn their trust as a partner and positively impact client decisions/outcomes
• Very strong written and verbal communication skills, including exceptional presentation skills and ability to craft data-driven frameworks and narratives for exec stakeholders (internal and external)
• Easily able to delegate and prioritize work based on the scale of impact
• Uncompromising attention to detail and appreciation for data-driven decisions
• Creative problem solver with an ability to simplify complex scenarios/challenges
• Significant experience working in/overseeing data-driven, market-research teams
• Experience with research design, execution and analytics related to brand, corporate reputation, audience measurement, campaign effectiveness and/or innovation research

Responsibilities

• Creating and activating key account growth strategies in partnership with other commercial stakeholders to drive customer retention and year-over-year revenue growth
• Developing and prioritizing customer relationships with key decision-makers and influencers for the greatest ROI
• Providing strong and consistent financial oversight for your team and delivering timely and accurate updates to the business via monthly/quarterly forecasts
• Overseeing and driving effective and efficient talent management for the team, including but not limited to resource needs, performance management and building a pipeline of top-level talent for our most critical and strategic roles
• Collaborating with stakeholders from across the entire organization to drive our innovation agenda (Product, Engineering, Offer and Marketing)
• Partnering with executive leadership and the People team to implement organizational change and activate employee engagement strategies
• Demonstrating industry thought leadership by representing Morning Consult internally and externally (speaking engagements, conferences, POVs, etc.)
• Identifying opportunities to simplify processes, improve efficiencies and increase profitability

Benefits

Salary range: $200,000 - $250,000, with a midpoint of $225,000