Senior Manager, Marketing Insights & Intelligence

Kansas City, MO (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive marketing insights by leading a centralized research CoE to inform GTM, brand, and creative decisions across marketing.

  • Own the orchestration and activation of consumer and market intelligence across marketing.
  • Must-have: 8+ years in user/market research leading cross-functional programs.
  • Standout: Experience shaping a Research CoE and applying AI-first approaches.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • As the Senior Manager, Marketing Insights & Intelligence, you will shape the research vision guiding our consumer and market intelligence across the Marketing organization. You will unify and lead research efforts across the business, with a focus on financial services, small business services, and consumer tax, ensuring non-duplicative and directly inform the go-to-market strategy, positioning, brand investment decisions, and creative development.
  • You will serve as the insights and research lead with the Marketing team translating business needs into clear research roadmaps and synthesizing insights into actionable guidance. You will deepen our holistic understanding of customers, build scalable research frameworks, elevate research maturity, implement AI-first approaches, and promote customer-centric transformation across Marketing and the broader organization.
  • Day to day, you’ll...
  • Own the orchestration, prioritization and activation of consumer and market intelligence across marketing – ensuring insights are centralized, non-duplicative and directly inform strategy, positioning and investment decisions.
  • Research Orchestration & Governance: - Serve as the single point of contact for Marketing with the Research CoE - Consolidate and prioritize research needs across GTM, Brand, Creative and other teams - Develop and manage a unified research roadmap aligned to business priorities - Ensure the right research methodologies are applied to each business question, balancing rigor, speed, cost and decision risk - Define and enhance research processes, tools, governance, and documentation
  • Insight Integration & Strategic Translation: - Synthesize findings across studies into clear, actionable insights - Translate research into implications for GTM strategy, positioning / messaging, brand strategy / creative
  • Cross-Functional Alignment: - Partner close with GTM Strategy, Brand and Creative - Create a shared understanding of the customer across all teams
  • External Market Intelligence: - Lead relationships with external partner analyst firms re: marketing - Bring forward category trends, competitive intelligence, market shifts and whitespace opportunities - Integrate external perspectives with internal research
  • Insight Communication & Enablement: - Owns research readouts and storytelling across the marketing organization - Standardizes how insights are shared - Train, coach, and consult with teams to elevate research and testing capabilities - Build accessible insight repositories / knowledge hubs
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H&R Block’s purpose is simple: To provide help and inspire confidence in our clients and communities everywhere. We’ve been true to that purpose since brothers Henry and Richard Bloch founded our company in 1955. Since then, we’ve prepared approximately 800 million tax returns and grown to have approximately 12,000 offices throughout the United States and around the world. We know that tax needs and situations change from year to year. That’s why we offer new and innovative ways to prepare and file taxes so clients can choose what suits them best.We are a people company first and a tax company second. With this in mind, we deliver care in every interaction, conversation, and at each touchpoint. That’s how we build long-lasting relationships with clients, communities, and associates.People who join H&R Block say it feels like being part of something bigger. A place with an amazing and storied history, but with a strong and urgent focus on the future. Maybe it's because our company still has the feeling of ‘family’ serving as the foundation for our associates and franchisees who bring our purpose to life each day. Maybe it’s how determined, forward thinking and innovative we are, or how accessible our leadership is. We believe it’s all those things, and much more. Our ideas are rooted in unique and diverse perspectives fueled by curiosity and creativity. We’re not afraid to try new things, and never rest on past success. We are passionate in the way we advocate for each other, for our clients, and most importantly, we not only say we are better together...we truly believe it!

Founded in 1955
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
16K employees (361 in marketing)
72% recommend to a friend
79% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
4.9M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.1M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.7%
Direct
52.8%
Referral
5.3%
Social
0.8%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~15.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
229 (1% of company)
Median Career Experience
18 years
Median Tenure
10.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

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