Harries (pictured) was formerly regional marketing manager at Beiersdorf, owners of Nivea, where she was responsible for consumer insight and research across Northern Europe. She joins a team of five research directors, all with client-side research experience.

Debbie Newbould, managing director at One-MS, said: “Rebecca’s skills, knowledge and experience as a consumer insight professional will be a terrific asset to the team. Her appointment underlines our unique offer as a qualitative research agency – we only employ professionals who have insight research experience in a client role.”