Event: The Future of Mobile Payments 2013

Speaker: Andrew Curry

Date: 21 May 2013

Location: London

Event Overview: Marketforces's Inaugural Conference: Discover how to unlock the power of mobile with leading banks, network operators and card schemes

Andrew Curry on exploring consumer attitudes and behaviour:

Will mobile payments be the preserve of Generation Y?
Do consumers see NFC payments as markedly more convenient than cards?
Will consumers fall out of love with cash?
Will mobile payments spell the end of bank cards?

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Kantar Worldpanel recently released their 2013 Brand Footprint report. Click here to see the full list of top brands, explore them by region, and download the report.

Link: http://www.brandfootprint-ranking.com/home/

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Office Location: New York, NY

Company Overview

The Futures Company is a leading global consumer insight and innovation consultancy that applies our unparalleled expertise in trends and futures to unlock new sources of growth for our clients. We provide strategic consulting and subscription-based insight services for many of the world’s best known companies and brands, such as Unilever, Coca Cola, HP and Visa. Our value lies not just in our knowledge of consumer needs and what will drive change in the future, but also in our ability to apply this understanding to our clients’ business problems, helping them to better leverage opportunities and reduce risk. The result of our work often leads to new and unexpected avenues of growth for our clients, including building innovation pipelines, identifying new target audiences, better understanding their own and adjacent or even non-adjacent categories and macro situations, like sustainability and health and wellness.

We are a strong team of consultants with backgrounds from an array of complementary disciplines including futures and foresight, strategic qualitative, analytics and quantitative, marketing and branding, business planning, advertising and design. Our wide range of perspectives enables us to solve complex client challenges with creative and holistic solutions.

The Position

We are looking for a superstar -- a dynamic, strategic, creative and analytic thinker who will join our team as a Senior Consultant. This individual will be responsible for managing multilayered consulting engagements, cultivating team members, and for supporting and, as feasible, contributing to new business development. We need someone with a proven track record of client work and project management, including strong client relationship/account management skills, who also has the ability to work across disciplines, the flexibility to develop new solutions and the creativity to develop fresh approaches to solving problems.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead client projects that include multiple perspectives and approaches, (e.g., qualitative/quantitative approaches, secondary research and scanning, futures and foresight, branding, marketing, and syndicated data).
• Provide great client management and client experience at each phase of the project, from kickoff to final deliverables and beyond.
• Help develop new approaches and methods based on client needs
• Support business development activities, including scoping projects and writing proposals.
• To contribute to the management, coaching and training of junior team members

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Creative strategic thinker with a proven track record (c 6 years or more) in strategic consulting, agency brand/strategic planning, futures and foresight, consumer insights, or brand innovation Immersed in consumer trends and able to grasp and confidently work with qualitative and quantitative research
• Able to focus on strategic recommendations for clients that will make a difference to clients’ business
• Able to demonstrate thinking about brands and clients’ businesses, having had exposure to a wide variety of categories
• Solid experience working on complex projects and mixed methodologies
• Excellent writing abilities
• Strong presentation/client facing skills
• Excellent project management skills/attention to detail
• Largely self-sufficient in terms of core computer skills (Word, PPT, Excel)
• Expertise in one or more of the following: futures and foresight, qualitative research, quantitative or syndicated research, innovation, branding and marketing.
• Languages an asset but not essential

Desired/Required Personality/Behavioral Traits

• On brand with our values of intelligence, rigor, curiosity, imagination and business impact
• Energetic, enthusiastic and self-starting
• Relishes a challenge and applies resourcefulness and invention to a problem
• A strong, engaging and persuasive communicator to people at a range of levels and experience
• Collaborative and collegiate in style, respectful of others, good listener
• A strong appreciation of the value of insight and foresight
• General interest and curiosity about the world, consumers, cultures, trends

Applications

The Futures Company always wants to hear from the best and brightest. So, if you’re looking for an intellectually stimulating, hands-on opportunity to further develop your career, please respond with a covering note and your CV. This is a full time position with benefits. The Futures Company is a Kantar Company within WPP, with strong employee development, training and benefits.

Your key contact for progressing this appointment is Joshua Gitlitz, Kantar Recruiting, +1 212 896 8185, joshua.gitlitz@kantar.com . Proof of eligibility to work in the US will be required.
W: http://www.thefuturescompany.com/

We are an equal opportunity employer, and invite job applications from all qualified and eligible individuals irrespective of race, age, gender, religion, marital status, disability or sexual orientation.

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Office Location: New York, NY

Company Overview

The Futures Company is a leading global consumer insight and innovation consultancy that applies our unparalleled expertise in trends and futures to unlock new sources of growth for our clients. We provide strategic consulting and subscription-based insight services for many of the world’s best known companies and brands, such as Unilever, Coca Cola, HP and Visa. Our value lies not just in our knowledge of consumer needs and what will drive change in the future, but also in our ability to apply this understanding to our clients’ business problems, helping them to better leverage opportunities and reduce risk. The result of our work often leads to new and unexpected avenues of growth for our clients, including building innovation pipelines, identifying new target audiences, better understanding their own and adjacent or even non-adjacent categories and macro situations, like sustainability and health and wellness.

We are a strong team of consultants with backgrounds from an array of complementary disciplines including futures and foresight, strategic qualitative, analytics and quantitative, marketing and branding, business planning, advertising and design. Our wide range of perspectives enables us to solve complex client challenges with creative and holistic solutions.

The Position

We are looking for a superstar -- a dynamic, strategic, creative and analytic thinker who will join our team as an intern. They will get hands-on experience contributing to report development and strategic recommendations for a range of clients.

Ideal candidates are insightful, strategic thinkers, highly attuned to the world – and the people – around them. They have a strong academic background, a willingness to take on responsibility, and a keen interest in marketing, general business, and current affairs.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Desk research for various client projects to help answer project questions such as ‘what is the future of the workplace?’
• Assistance with various administrative tasks such as preparation for client workshops and documenting consumer research materials like scrapbooks and photos

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Effective and efficient time management skills
• Ability to think creatively, strategically and analytically
• Experience working with and analyzing quantitative and qualitative research and presenting the results in compelling ways is a plus, although not mandatory
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities
• Excellent attention to detail
• Largely self-sufficient in terms of core computer skills (Word, PPT, Excel)
• Languages an asset but not essential

Applications

The Futures Company always wants to hear from the best and brightest. So, if you’re looking for an intellectually stimulating, hands-on opportunity to develop your career, please submit your cover letter and resume.  Please include your dates of availability in your cover letter. Proof of eligibility to work in the USA will be required.

The Summer Internship is set to start in mid-June and can last up to six months, depending on availability.

The Futures Company Contacts:

Zuleika Milan
Consultant
Zuleika.milan@thefuturescompany.com

Details:

• Select candidates will be interviewed over the phone or in person
• Only full-time opportunities available (40 hours a week)
• Minimum commitment is 10 weeks
• Internship will be paid

We are an equal opportunity employer, and invite job applications from all qualified and eligible individuals irrespective of race, age, gender, religion, marital status, disability or sexual orientation.

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Date: 22, May 2013

Time: 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Location: Washington DC

Featured speaker:  J. Walker Smith

Generations Forum

The Atlantic’s inaugural Generations Forum will convene leading scholars, demographers, health professionals, and urban planners for a half-day event focused on the top political, social, and economic issues and opportunities facing America as an unprecedented demographic shift takes hold.

In the coming years, 77 million aging baby boomers will create a need for new infrastructure and services in communities across the nation, particularly in the housing and transportation sectors. As lifespan continues to increase, we must look for both common sense and innovative solutions in healthcare given the demands of an aging population. Meanwhile, increased longevity will leave many Americans concerned about a secure financial plan for the future.

Conversations will look at how breakthrough technology, urban transit trends, social mores, and new approaches to land development and architecture are creating more livable communities, and experts will assess the changing labor force for families that may lack the financial security of the previous generation.

In a series of panel discussions and keynote interviews, The Atlantic’s Generations Forum will analyze how individuals, communities, and policymakers can seize opportunities to adapt to this new societal structure and embrace the demographic realities of America’s future.

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