Mustard Hires and Re-hires in Manchester

Manchester-based full-service MR agency Mustard has appointed Rebecca Harris as Research Director, while welcoming back Amy Harrod and Joe Stanley as Senior Research Manager and SRE respectively.

Founded in 1989, Mustard offers a range of services for customer satisfaction, brand research, segmentation, proposition / concept testing and U&A studies. Harris joins after a stint at Kantar, where she served as Client Director, before which she spent seven years at DJS Research, latterly as an AD; was a Research Manager at Coleman Parkes Research, and an SRE at Millward Brown.

Harrod returns to Mustard a year after she left the agency to work for BBC Children in Need. In her previous six years with the firm, latterly as Research Manager, she was involved in the development and roll-out of the agency's innovations in mobile qualitative research. Stanley also returns to the agency having left in 2020 to take up the position of Planner at creative agency Ear to the Ground. His previous experience includes insight roles at Mediacom.

Commenting on the news, MD Colin Auton said: 'We're delighted to welcome Becca to the Mustard team. Being from the Manchester research scene, we've known about her skills for a number of years, and we're thrilled that we've been able to add her to an increasingly strong team. It's also fantastic news that Amy and Joe have decided to re-join Mustard. It demonstrates the value that colleagues attach to the culture and working environment here, and we look forward to watching their continued development in the agency'.

Web site: www.mustard-research.com .