Qualitative Behavioral Science Consultant

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The Data, Discovery and Decision Science (D3) department is accountable for serving as a subject matter expert in the discipline of focus and leading or supporting the application of knowledge and techniques to impact business goals. The department is responsible for teaching and consulting in their discipline across a broad audience and for driving adoption of related principles to innovate and improve the work done across the department and enterprise.

The Behavioral Science Consultant is responsible for using behavioral science to understand customer insights, influence change and drive decision making.

Job Description

Serves as a behavioral science subject matter expert and consults on complex issues and improves the effectiveness of business decisions through the use of behavioral insights and methodologies
Maintains deep familiarity with academic literature, emerging trends, organizational requirements, and recent achievements in Behavioral Science to develop new hypotheses
Helps design, implement and manage complex projects, programs and approaches
Develops techniques and methodologies to achieve business and corporate goals drawing upon broad functional expertise in behavioral science
Conducts research across the organization, helping execute a variety of research programs, including in-situation observation, interviews and moderation, workshops and various forms of design prototype evaluation
Analyzes, considers the implications of and generates actionable insights related to business outcomes, customer needs and patterns of behaviors
Contributes to the creation of journey maps and user personas
Collaborates with business units in order to communicate research insights and improve the effectiveness of business decisions through the use of behavioral insights and methodologies
Acts as a behavioral science advocate across the organization

Job Qualifications

Master’s or PhD strongly preferred in a field such as behavioral, cognitive, experimental or social psychology, cognitive sciences, Human Factors/Human Computer Interaction or related field; or equivalent experience
Ability to develop and/or revise tactics to support changing business strategies and direction
Ability to communicate highly specialized information in a systematic and understandable manner and to present this data to audiences with various levels of expertise
Strong interpersonal skills, ability to quickly build rapport, establish credibility and serve as a consultant
Ability to handle multiple concurrent assignments in a timely manner
Functional knowledge of business in general and insurance industry experience in particular preferred
Expertise in ethnographic research methods, product and/or service design research preferred
Practical experience with data analysis and experimental design (focus groups, A/B testing) preferred
Experience with UX research preferred

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.

Applied Behavioral Scientist – Health Concentration

Bayer

At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where ,Health for all, Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.

Applied Behavioral Scientist – Health Concentration

In Bayer’s Integrated Care business, we transform complex healthcare challenges into human-centric solutions and businesses through innovation, creating new revenue streams globally. Our goal is to create product experiences that help people engage with their health effectively to achieve meaningful outcomes. We work across multiple health categories, potentially impacting the health and well-being of millions of people across the globe.

The product design team is comprised of senior multidisciplinary experts, collaborating with cross-functional partners to design novel, effective, and engaging solutions that help patients/users improve their health. The team plays a critical role in uncovering the market/user needs and bringing together clinical, behavioral, and data science to make key product decisions. The team works in a very generative, design forward and iterative way and could be described as having a “startup mentality;” however, unlike working at a startup, there are dedicated resources to help us work most efficiently.

About the position

Yours is one of a pair of roles devoted to Applied Behavioral Science, a discipline that we define in two parts: maintaining a focus on behavior as the outcome of interest and the application of the scientific process to developing interventions that change behavior. Reporting to the same leader and living in the same team, you and your peer will overlap in methodology but bring unique perspectives informed by your previous experience: while your peer comes from a design-heavy background with an emphasis on technology, you will have experience with improving both individual and population health through Applied Behavioral Science. This is a role for someone who is passionate about in-situ experimentation as a key component of Applied Behavioral Science to drive business decisions.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

The primary responsibilities of this role, Applied Behavioral Scientist – Health Concentration, are to:

Use your expertise in Applied Behavioral Science to help create healthier short- and long-term behaviors through the four phases of behavior science: Behavioral Strategy: in collaboration with stakeholders, defining the specifics of the target population and desired outcome behavior, including how it will be measured. Behavioral Insights: leading the research that yields both quantitative and qualitative observations about the existing pressures that create behavior. Behavioral Design: assisting in the design of proposed interventions by ensuring they remain clearly connected to the behavioral insights and focused on the behavioral strategy. Behavioral Impact Evaluation: guiding appropriate experimentation of behavioral interventions to evaluate to what extent they modify the existing rates of the pre-defined behavioral outcomes.
Use your depth of knowledge to help others broaden theirs by facilitating workshops and trainings and creating clear, replicable processes that are learnable by others, to enhance our organization understanding of evidence-based health behavior change.
Actively learn from your colleagues, including clinicians, design researchers and strategists, content and experience designers, and business leaders, to broaden your own cross-disciplinary knowledge.
Act as the accountable owner of behavioral science related to methodologies like CBT and DBT, as well as health and wellness topic areas like stress and sleep.

WHO YOU ARE

Your success will be driven by your demonstration of our LIFE values (leadership, integrity, flexibility and efficiency). More specifically related to this position, Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

Minimum of a Master’s degree in Psychology, Social Work, Behavioral Science, or a related field;
Strong experience in applying behavioral science in healthcare, ideally in a for-profit setting;
Demonstrated competency as a generalist in both qualitative and quantitative methods; you should be able to facilitate a user interview by yourself and run basic inferential statistics like as correlations and simple T-Tests;
Working knowledge of experimental methods, with an emphasis on the tradeoffs between certainty and resources like time and budget;
A history of working with both business and clinical stakeholders in entrepreneurial, improvement-focused settings.

Preferred Qualifications:

Prior experience in regulated environments.

Staff Behavioral Research Scientist

Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Behavioral Research Scientist to join the Northrop Grumman People Analytics team. This position reports to the Manager, Employee Research and Competitive Intelligence, People Analytics.

People Analytics is a team of scientists, analysts, U/X experts, and technologists who use science to inform our most important people decisions and to enable an industry-leading employee experience. As a member of the People Analytics team, you will be responsible for developing employee research methods and analytics to generate insights and empower our leaders and HR partners to better understand their organizations and drive strategy.

As Behavioral Research Scientist, you will be a key member of our team. You will have the ability to see the big picture and make decisions that align with our long-term Employee Research strategy.This position will require effective collaboration with key stakeholders, as well as external vendors.

Job responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

Support the team’s Agile sprints through collaboration across the team on a wide variety of projects leveraging your expertise

Analyze and interpret data and indicators using statistical methods
Respond to ad-hoc reporting requests from organizational stakeholders
Explain complicated technical results in a compelling and understandable way for a non-technical audience

Develop effective partnerships with internal and external stakeholders
Drive progress and the successful completion of project timelines

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

Master’s degree in Industrial / Organizational Psychology and 13 years of working experience with applied research methodologies and performing data analysis in a professional environment; OR 15 years of working experience with a Bachelor’s

Knowledge of best practices around topics such as training and development, leadership, retention, and selection

Outstanding organization and project management skills
Exceptional relationship building with an ability to manage customer expectations in an efficient and effective manner

Experience in leading survey design and statistical analysis
Demonstrated aptitude for learning with flexibility to adapt to shifting priorities and navigate ambiguous situations

Preferred Qualifications:

PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology or related field
Experience in talent management and/or change management projects
Experience gathering information from various data sources to include: surveys, HRIS systems, structured interviews, focus group sessions, etc.

Technical experience with SQL, R, Python, and Tableau
Experience with the Qualtrics Survey Platform

Senior Research Director – Behavioral Science

Ipsos North America

Ipsos is the world’s third largest market research company, present in 90 markets and employing more than 18,000 people. Our passionately curious research professionals, analysts and scientists have built unique multi-specialist capabilities that provide true understanding and powerful insights into the actions, opinions and motivations of citizens, consumers, patients, customers or employees. We serve more than 5000 clients across the world with 75 business solutions.

Founded in France in 1975, Ipsos is listed on the Euronext Paris since July 1st, 1999. The company is part of the SBF 120 and the Mid-60 index and is eligible for the Deferred Settlement Service (SRD).

Are you passionate about understanding why people do the things they do? Are you interested in the hidden factors that drive consumer decisions? Do you like working on new challenges?

The Ipsos Behavioral Science Center is looking for a senior research director to join our team of experts. Our primary mission is to partner with Ipsos research teams to integrate and leverage Behavioral Science principles into our research and consulting offers to create holistic, innovative, and actionable solutions for our clients.

One of our core values and point of differentiation in the market is our ability to couple scientific rigor with applied solutions. While we prefer candidates with graduate work in behavioral science or related fields, we are looking first and foremost for people with a passion and interest in consumer psychology and a desire to translate academic principles to real-world challenges.

The Ipsos Behavioral Science Center works with clients across a variety of business sectors – ranging from consumer-packaged goods, to healthcare, to financial, and technology; we also leverage a variety of research approaches – ranging from qualitative, to ethnography, to survey, to online communities, and social listening. We’ve helped a broad range of Fortune 100 companies create more powerful communications, optimize packaging decisions, innovate new products, and create long-term changes in behavior.

We are therefore looking for someone who is comfortable and capable of working on a variety of different project types – typically at the same time. This person should be able to make broad connections and see patterns in research findings and solutions to ultimately help our clients apply learnings from a variety of different sources. The person in this role will working with a variety of internal and external clients and needs to be comfortable interacting with others in a variety of situations and is comfortable thinking on her/his feet.

Your primary role will be working with senior team members to develop business and execute day-to-day project needs. Specifically, you will:

Apply academic theories and frameworks to create the design and content of client proposals and deliverables to provide insights on client’s business challenges
Working with the team to merge academic theories to build unique BeSci point of view for IpsosDevelop contents for and lead workshops and webinars, internally and externallyParticipate in client meetings

In addition to the day-to-day tasks, we seek someone who will ultimately contribute to our thought leadership, product development, and internal evangelism for behavioral science insights.

Qualifications

Successful candidates should possess several of the following characteristics:

Strong passion for Behavioral Science and problem solving
Demonstrated track-record excellence in previous work (academic, professional, or personal)
Advance degree in psychology, marketing, anthropology or a field related to understanding human behavior
Some professional experience (2-4 years) preferred but not required in marketing, insights, or consulting OR advanced degree in related fieldStrong time-management skills
Ability to manage multiple projects and meet all deadlines
Strong ability to make and sustain relationships
Ability to work independently
Best of class oral and written communication skills