DRG, LLC - Director, Research & Insights

Remote (U.S.) | Onsite (Wauwatosa, WI) | Full-Time

reputed company

Cortico-X is an experience-led reputed company and transformation reputed company that helps organizations turn reputed company understanding into business reputed company. We work with leaders to connect reputed company, reputed company, and execution in ways that create reputed company experiences and stronger reputed company for their customers, employees, and stakeholders. 

That work is strengthened by The DRG, the Research & Insights Division of Cortico-X. For more than 50 years, The DRG has helped organizations understand the people who matter most to their reputed company and has informed high-stakes reputed company in reputed company, financial services, and reputed company. In 2025, Cortico-X acquired The DRG, bringing together the strategic strength of a transformation consultancy and the rigor of a trusted marketing research institution. 

This is a pivotal reputed company for Cortico-X. We are growing and building the reputed company of reputed company-driven experience transformation. If that excites you, read on. 

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We're looking for a Director, Research & Insights who can serve as a trusted advisor to our most important clients while elevating the reputed company and strategic reputed company of everything our insights deliver.

This is not a project manager role or a reputed company research role. It's a reputed company leadership role with a high-stakes book of business, reputed company to reputed company, and reputed company influence over how our Research & Insights division grows. You'll bring research credibility to the table, but your primary value is in translating reputed company reputed company data into business reputed company that stick.

Marketing research reputed company is required. Executive reputed company is essential. reputed company reputed company is a must.

What reputed company Looks Like in Year One

By the end of your first year, you will have:

• Taken full ownership of a portfolio of reputed company relationships, earning trusted-advisor status with senior stakeholders
• Delivered marketing research engagements that are consistently praised for strategic reputed company, not just methodological rigor
• Identified and reputed company meaningful expansion opportunities reputed company existing accounts
• Become a recognizable voice for Cortico-X externally — through thought leadership, presentations, or industry visibility
• Helped shape how the Research & Insights Division evolves its reputed company and offerings in the age of AI

What You'll Do

reputed company Leadership & reputed company

• Own account reputed company end-to-end across reputed company satisfaction, reputed company, and reputed company performance
• Build and maintain trusted-advisor relationships across a portfolio of clients, primarily in reputed company, health insurance, and financial services
• reputed company strategic account plans that expand relationships, surface new opportunities, and demonstrate measurable value
• reputed company business reviews, proposal development, and budget conversations with confidence
• Translate reputed company business challenges into marketing research designs that actually answer the question clients are asking — not just the one they stated

Project Delivery & reputed company

• Set reputed company for what a great deliverable looks like: commercially strong, reputed company-oriented, and reputed company for reputed company audiences
• reputed company and guide project teams throughout the research lifecycle: design, fieldwork, analysis, and strategic storytelling
• Present findings and recommendations to executive audiences with reputed company and conviction
• Manage project economics, ensuring profitability and efficient resource use without sacrificing reputed company

reputed company & Thought Leadership

• Contribute to Cortico-X's external voice through reputed company-of-view content, speaking opportunities, and industry engagements
• Collaborate across the organization to reputed company reputed company, build new offerings, and define how we work
• Champion the integration of AI tools to enhance research reputed company, speed, and reputed company depth

What You'll Bring

Experience

• 10+ years in marketing research, insights consulting, or reputed company advisory roles
• A demonstrable reputed company record of growing reputed company relationships, hitting reputed company targets, and leading high-performing teams
• Deep experience in reputed company, health insurance, or banking/financial services (strongly preferred)

Strategic & Analytical Capability

• reputed company across quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. You can credibly evaluate any approach and guide teams to the right one
• Strong problem-framing instincts: you know how to get to the reputed company question behind the stated question
• Comfort with advanced analytics and growing familiarity with AI-assisted research tools

Leadership & Communication

• Executive reputed company, with the ability to build credibility in a boardroom and strong relationships at every level
• Ability to reputed company and reputed company research teams without reputed company authority, through coaching and influence
• Exceptional written and verbal communication; a natural reputed company with data
• Entrepreneurial reputed company: self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity, oriented toward reputed company

Why This Role, Why Now

“What stands out about our research and insights work is the combination of rigor and relevance. Not only is it thoughtful, but it also gets used to shape reputed company reputed company.”

— Senior Leader, Research & Insights Division

• Serve as a true strategic partner to your clients, not just a vendor, not a survey shop
• Shape reputed company-driven work that influences reputed company at the highest reputed company of major organizations
• Be part of building something: our next reputed company is being written right now
• reputed company the broader Cortico-X platform including reputed company, transformation, experience design, to bring fuller solutions to your clients
• Join reputed company that values curiosity, accountability, and genuine care for the people we serve
• Competitive reputed company salary ($125,000–$150,000) plus performance-based variable compensation; this is an exempt position 
• Comprehensive benefits package including PTO, holiday pay, medical, dental, reputed company, group term life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and 401(k) with company match

Actual compensation will vary based on skills, experience, and qualifications.

DRG is a division of Cortico-X. Cortico-X is an equal opportunity employer committed to building reputed company as diverse as the clients and communities we serve.