Location: Tampa, FL
Date: September 1, 2021
As a Market Research Associate at Orchid Black, you will focus on client engagements across our Market Research & Analytics (MR&A) practice. In this practice, we gather, aggregate, and develop actionable customer and competitive insights so that businesses can clearly understand their strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities to reach their full potential.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to engage with businesses across a broad range of industries and sizes (growth-stage startups, SMB, Enterprise). The activities you will be doing on a day-to-day basis include:
You will also be given the opportunity to impact Orchid Black’s Growth Services practice by rigorously analyzing the value of a business in its current state through our proprietary Value Creation Assessment (VCA). In VCA engagements, you will be responsible for working directly with our clients to analyze each segment of their business (strategy, talent, product, revenue, and operations). The output from your analysis will empower Orchid Black’s team of growth experts to develop and execute a set of strategic recommendations that help our partner-clients reach sustainable growth.
Orchid Black encourages all of its Market Research Associates to continuously develop their skill sets and gain experience. Associates will gain first-hand knowledge of clients’ business issues while building analytic, research, solution development, and communications skills. Associates take ownership of specific tasks on client projects, as well as responsibility for supporting the broader problem-solving effort.
Reports to: Manager, Marketing Research & Analytics Practice
Supervises: N/A
Travel Requirements
Physical Demands
Hired Market Research Associates will be required to complete initial onboarding/training to fully understand Orchid Black’s methodology and approach. Once training is completed, Market Research Associates will contribute to projects by serving as project team members within the Market Research & Analytics (MR&A) practice.
The Research Associate possesses excellent communication and organizational skills, and a strong focus on client satisfaction. The workplace environment at Orchid Black is dynamic and an Associates’ day-to-day activities will vary depending on their assignments.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
General
Client Services
Business Development
Education
Experience
Other Knowledge, Skills Abilities or Attributes
Meritocracy
Real World Experience
Entrepreneurial Playbook
Incentive-Based Compensation
Orchid Black is a new kind of growth services firm. We partner with tech-forward companies to build smarter, better, game-changing businesses. We ensure clients hit bigger milestones and see greater returns faster. Behind Orchid Black’s customized assessments, strategy and effective execution are its people. We are skilled problem solvers, operators, and entrepreneurs ourselves. In addition to data-powered assessments and customized business blueprints, we deploy operators to roll up their sleeves, dig-in deep, and execute on our recommendations. Working side by side with our client-partners, Orchid Black mitigates financial and operational risk and builds a foundation of trust, co-accountability, and mutually beneficial outcomes. Orchid Black’s sweet spot is powering-up founder-led companies — and accelerating outcomes. We also help private equity firms, family offices, and even big brands, turn the tide. Whether the end goal is market fit or an exit, Orchid Black strengthens its partner-clients. For more information, please visit Orchid Black.