Benjamin Hecht Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Developed forward thinking account strategy and three-year roadmap to capitalize on emerging technology trends for F100 retailerRestructured and communicated impact of past and current work by transforming complex financial data into actionable insights for client, leading to an extended contract termUtilized GenAI automation to sustainably reduce client overhead, identifying opportunities for digital transformation and efficiencies, facilitating cost take-out and value orchestration of $2B in opportunity areas across the business

New York, New York, Us

Created and implemented updated expense system for attorneys, tracking business development and reinforcing accountabilityWorked with team in modernizing CRM system, increasing system efficiency and accuracy through automationAnalyzed partners’ client development budgets, actions, and corresponding outcomes with head of business development, and recommended strategies for increasing new client acquisitionDrafted new policies for attorney expenses, travel, and gifting for firmwide transparency

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

Managed project teams of six analysts, providing data for health, tech, non-profit, utilities, and finance clients through identifying target audiences, constructing survey questions, and analyzing data of up to 1,500 respondentsLed creation of standardized data quality protocols to improve efficacy and accuracy of research team's insightsOversaw $295,000 global competitive analysis, rebranding, and repositioning study for animal welfare non-profitCollaborated with public utility company's marketing team to build corporate re-positioning and tracking studyDesigned research strategy for tracking reputation study and job campaign for major retail company's global tech subsidiaryInterviewed healthcare product distributors after major recall to analyze reputational impact on its manufacturerCreated industry trends reports on behalf of retail company to apprise it of important developments

Washington, Dc, Us

Collaborated across all levels on the “Efficiency Project,” an internal workstream to improve work function, provide consistency for work output, and ensure methodologies meet or exceed industry standards.Devised and implemented a new model, using JavaScript, computation linguistics, and various statistical methods, to improve and standardize data quality protocols.Led the development of an up-to-date standard for Insight’s demographic questions, banner and crosstab creation, and its questionnaire templates, resulting in more accurate data and consistency across projects.Streamlined the process data setup on the company’s research software through automation via JavaScript and R.Customized and automated presentable topline reports using Python and Word macros.Collaborated with Insight’s Managing Director to gauge internal interest on projects, uncover areas of growth, and organize learning events.Identified a need to facilitate a healthier work experience among junior staff and instituted a weekly resourcing and check-in call, and serve as the official liaison between junior staff and senior management.Trained organization’s staff in using modern statistical software and implementing modern methodologies.SELECT CLIENT PROJECTSDeveloped, with the department head, statistical tools which are now used for F100 and F500 clients in industries, including health care, pharmaceutical, finance, automotive, manufacturing, and infrastructure. Served as project director for TradeMarks, an annual reputation study that tracks opinions on key associations and is primarily used to both retain current clients and bring in new ones.Coordinated quarterly ad testing surveys, managing four outside vendors, for a specialized audience for a major health care client and cultivate high quality responses through my implementation of modern methodologies.Conducted focus groups with teenagers to identify, and prevent, dangerous social media trends.

Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Serve as field director for the research team, communicating with both international and domestic vendors to organize the recruitment and execution of focus groups, surveys, and IDIs.Involved in end-to-end analysis from screener, guide, and survey development to data cleaning and visualization.Responsible for daily management of interns, including hiring, on-boarding, and training.Use JavaScript within Q Research Software to generate new variables for deeper analysis. Write code in Python to convert our data into a presentable topline report, streamlining our previous manual process. Research various issues relevant to international political candidates, industry associations, and F100 companies.Work with the accounting department to facilitate vendor payments.

Washington, Dc, Us

Help facilitate research-driven insights to develop clear and effective strategies for both corporate and political clients. Design, analyze, and create data visualization decks from survey data. Provide background research to department head on both current and potential clients. Communicate directly with vendors regarding availability, budget, and client needs. Create proposals and memos to communicate our strategy to clients.

Assisted in all aspects of game day operations, including greeting and organizing teams. Managed database and inventory of all tournament merchandise in excel. Helped organize, manage, and work at the events put on by the company. Researched locations and retailers, and engaged volunteers for future events. Sold over $20,000 in merchandise on game day

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Taught coding lab class of 15 students, and worked with students one to one to assist with course material. Assisted professor with design of course materials, and grading of exams and homework assignments. Created excel algorithms to track attendance and grades, so everything was kept on track.

Us

Aided and assisted the sales and marketing staff. Conducted research and competitive media analysis, and created marketing materials for sales team. Created Marketing One Sheets and Top Sheets for sales team to aide in both current and prospective client meetings. Converted database of 600 celebrities and tracked their social media presence in excel and streamlined their contact info. Used MediaRadar to track ad growth and conduct media analysis.Created and presented a marketing proposal for private luxury air travel to management

New York, Ny, Us

Tasked with revamping and improving the company’s online profile. Wrote an excel algorithm that predicts possible twitter growth. Created Tweets and LinkedIn posts to promote company’s software offering. Conducted competitive analysis and researched competitors’ approaches to online marketing to create best practices program. Assisted sales department by organizing data into excel to facilitate analysis of productivity.

New York, New York, Us

Worked directly with social media coordinator to develop and promote the law firm’s intellectual property and technology group though online outreach and promotion using Twitter. Assisted in the development of a social media campaign and responsible for increasing practice group’s twitter base from 169 to over 1,000 followers. Identified online campaign speaking opportunities for head partner via participation in online Twitter panels and suggested topics for online dissemination, including in areas of online privacy, security, 3D printing, wearable technology, copyright and trademarks. Assisted in the management of practice group leader’s on-line profile, including tweets, look and feel of profile, and online engagement. Researched the method and approach of other law firm’s using social media outreach in various fields of law.

New York, Ny, Us

Assisted with pre-game television promos for upcoming sporting events, identify and recommend music content for promos,research player biographies in connection with promotional campaigns, run front desk and greet visitors. I logged and organized hours of footage from the game to help editors find easily find clips that they would need for promos.

Responsibilities included packing bins and shipping materials for direct mail marketing for advertising campaigns, worked with and organized video tape advertising library.

Served as a video bunk instructor, and leader in training to third and fourth graders. Helped campers write, shoot and produce videos. Also created camp videos for three summers which were shown camp-wide.

New York, New York, Us

Assisted with patent infringement analysis on patented technology directed towards multi-player tournament video games. Created screen captures of certain levels of game play to establish infringement and communicated findings and captures to lawyers.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Linguistics (Major), Ideate: Innovation And Entrepreneurship (Minor)