Center of Excellence Research and Insights Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Design, field, and manage original COE research studies focused on topics such as employee engagement, recognition, motivation, wellbeing, and workplace experience
• Support the development of surveys, questionnaires, benchmarks, and measurement frameworks that can be used across COE initiatives
• Maintain high standards for study quality, methodology, interpretation, and reporting
• Partner with internal stakeholders to align research priorities to COE content and insight needs
• Translate research findings into practical thought leadership assets including reports, white papers, articles, presentations, and supporting materials
• Contribute to the development of a recognizable Awardco point of view on employee recognition and engagement
• Support external-facing research storytelling through digestible, practitioner-friendly outputs
• Help design and deliver webinars, workshops, internal learning sessions, and training materials grounded in research findings
• Turn complex organizational psychology concepts into clear, useful education for HR and EX practitioner audiences
• Support the COE in building repeatable research-based materials that can be used across events, content, and enablement efforts

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Organizational Psychology, Applied Psychology, Behavioral Science, or a related field
• 4-7 years of experience in employee research, survey design, people science, organizational research, or a related field
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering research studies end-to-end
• Strong analytical and written communication skills, with the ability to turn findings into practical recommendations
• Experience working with survey platforms, research methods, and data storytelling
• Comfortable presenting findings to internal stakeholders and professional audiences
• Experience contributing to thought leadership, research publications, or educational content is a plus

Preferred Profile

• Strong grounding in I/O or people science principles
• Able to balance methodological rigor with business practicality
• Curious, collaborative, and comfortable working across functions
• Excited by building research that informs content, education, and market perspective