Job Description

About the Role:

Join Ipsos Understanding Unlimited as a Research Manager, where you'll lead the delivery of high-quality research projects for top-tier clients. You'll navigate the complex landscape of consumer behavior, combining qualitative techniques with advanced AI and predictive analytics. As part of a dynamic team, you'll manage exciting projects from conception to completion, working closely with expert colleagues to provide strategic insights that drive business success. With a hybrid approach, your role will span across cutting-edge methodologies, adapting to diverse client needs and industry demands.

About You:

The Research Manager plays a pivotal role in delivering exceptional research solutions to our clients. As a strategic thinker and client champion, you will lead research projects from conception to completion, ensuring high-quality deliverables that address client objectives and drive business impact.

Essential Skills:

• Genuine interest in the FMCG space
• Experience working across projects involving workshops and co-creation
• A strong interest in brands, innovation and culture
• Enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, and able to juggle the needs and responsibilities of multiple projects in parallel
• Strong understanding of qualitative research methodologies and a passion for delivering insightful results with experience in managing projects and client relationships
• Experience in drafting and reviewing materials for clients
• Experience in drafting and reviewing impactful deliverables, such as reports.
• Comfortable conducting a range of methodologies including online, community management, quantitative design and more traditional F2F methods – the role will sometimes involve the need for domestic travel within the UK
  

Desirable Skills:

• An understanding of quantitative research with current experience or a desire to build core craft skills
• Experience of running long-term communities (qual only or qual / quant)
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong organisational and time management skills, being a quick learner and very detail-oriented.
• Commercial awareness: experience in proactively managing finances on projects and ensuring project profitability.
• Contribution to revenue generation, through writing proposals and developing client accounts.
• Proficient in analysis software and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Knowledge of core AI and machine learning concepts in research, such as predictive modelling and sentiment analysis.
• Experience in AI qual i.e. modbots, would be ideal

Benefits:

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you as an individual. Our standard benefits include 25 days annual leave, pension contribution, income protection and life assurance. In addition, there are a range health & wellbeing, financial benefits and professional development opportunities.

We have a hybrid approach to work and ask people to be in the office or with clients for 3 days per week. We appreciate you may have commitments outside of work and will consider flexible working applications - please highlight what you are looking for when you make your application.

We are committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views. We recognise that this is important for our business success - a more diverse workforce will enable us to better reflect and understand the world we research and ultimately deliver better research and insight to our clients. We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident scheme, certified as a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. We provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

Your application will be reviewed by someone from our Talent Team who will be in touch either way to let you know the outcome.

Ready to have an impact? Apply now!

Ipsos is one of the world’s largest research companies and currently the only one primarily managed by researchers, ranking as a #1 full-service research organization for four consecutive years. With over 75 different data-driven solutions, and presence in 90 markets, Ipsos brings together research, implementation, methodological, and subject-matter experts from around the world, combining thematic and technical experts to deliver top-quality research and insights. Simply speaking, we help the biggest companies solve some of their biggest problems, serving more than 5000 clients across the globe by providing research, data, and insights on their target markets. And we are proud of our continuous efforts in making Ipsos the best place to work!