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of Service\nAccelerated Career Path\nAward-Winning Culture & Community Outreach\nThe Director, Client Insights is responsible for the strategic direction and end-to-end operational management of Ryan's enterprise client survey programme, ensuring meaningful, consistent and actionable insights across the organisation.\nWith a particular focus on Ryan's rapidly expanding European business, this role will partner closely with practice leaders and cross-functional teams to understand divisional operations, integrate local business requirements into the enterprise survey framework, and ensure accurate representation of the client experience.\nThe Director will oversee survey methodology, eligibility, deployment, reporting, and closed-loop feedback processes, while identifying opportunities to improve data quality, operational efficiency, and programme effectiveness.\nCombining strategic thinking with hands-on execution, this individual will play a critical role in strengthening Ryan's 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client survey program, ensuring consistent and meaningful measurement of the client experience across divisions and client touchpoints.\nLeads the integration of European practices into the enterprise survey program, balancing standardized methodologies and processes with division-specific business requirements.\nDevelops, implements, and continuously improves relational and transactional surveys, including survey design, eligibility criteria, deployment, reporting, and closed-loop feedback processes.\nPartners with practice leaders to understand client engagements, operational processes, and feedback needs, identifying opportunities to enhance survey effectiveness and client representation.\nEvaluates survey coverage and identifies gaps in eligible client populations, collaborating with Operations and other stakeholders to address data completeness and improve the accuracy and representativeness of survey participation.\nAnalyzes client feedback, survey performance, and experience metrics to deliver timely, actionable insights and recommendations to senior leadership and key business stakeholders.\nEnsures client insights reporting accurately reflects business operations, supports informed decision-making, and drives improvements in the overall client experience.\nValue\nProvides strategic direction while maintaining hands-on ownership of survey operations, translating business priorities into practical, scalable solutions that support Ryan's continued growth.\nOversees and optimizes Ryan's enterprise survey platform, Qualtrics, ensuring effective survey administration, data management, reporting, and alignment with evolving business needs.\nCollaborates with Information Technology, Operations, and Client Experience teams to enhance survey technologies, reporting capabilities, data integration, and supporting processes.\nIdentifies and addresses opportunities to improve survey eligibility, data quality, and client engagement representation, including gaps related to incomplete Salesforce records.\nEstablishes and enhances standardized survey processes, governance, and reporting frameworks while accommodating appropriate customization across business divisions.\nSupports the evaluation, implementation, and integration of new tools and technologies, including emerging capabilities such as Pendo, to enhance client insights and operational efficiency.\nDrives continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen program effectiveness, streamline processes, and maximize the value of client feedback across the organization.\nHandles confidential client and business information with discretion and performs other duties as assigned.\nEducation and Experience\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Marketing, Analytics, Finance, or a related field.\nA minimum of five years of progressive experience in client insights, customer experience, market research, survey methodology, or a related discipline, including several years of leadership 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