Start Date: January 2021

Are you looking to start and develop your career in one of the world’s largest Research Organisations?

We are recruiting for Graduate Research Executives to join the UU team at Ipsos MORI, who specialise in consumer & commercial research largely with FMCG companies, banks & FinTechs. Research projects would focus on brand, fundamental market understanding, innovation, communications, and customer journey and shopper research. You’ll be helping grow our consumer qualitative business to ensure we are delivering market leading research, answering our client’s business questions with insights that create impact.

We enable our clients to innovate and build their portfolio by understanding consumer motivations & providing recommendations to maximise sales. We deliver in-depth understanding of the drivers of consumer choice and of global marketing challenges. Our research experts provide integrated qualitative research, using traditional methodologies such as focus groups & depth interviews, as well as engaging new digital tools, such as mobile diaries & online communities – which have been critical through the CV19 crisis.

We are the home of great qualitative research, with a reputation for delivering market leading, innovative, and award-winning qualitative research. You would join a close-knit hub of creative qualitative researchers who benefit from the perks and resources of being part of a large organisation. Over the past 12 months, Ipsos Qual are proud to have won a variety of industry awards and nominations. More broadly, in 2020 Ipsos retained its position as the most innovative research supplier globally by GRIT.

The Role

We are excited about using innovative approaches and delivering to our clients with style and panache. We are looking for graduates from any degree discipline to join us and embrace a career in research, to be successful in this, you will need:

• To work creatively and think commercially

• To be client focused & confident dealing with clients

• Have exceptional attention to detail whilst being creative, innovative and analytical

• Have strong interpersonal skills – the ability to communicate clearly and persuasively

• A willingness to ‘get your hands dirty’ and a genuine hunger to earn your stripes

• Thrives on delighting people through over-delivery and going the extra mile

• Receptive to working on all manner of commercial client accounts

• Have a ‘right first time’ approach

• The unrestricted right to work full-time in the UK

Some of your key roles & responsibilities will include:

• Working on the full lifecycle of both UK-only and multi-market global research studies

• Helping senior team members to translate client research objectives into engaging qualitative studies that deliver actionable results

• Involvement in qualitative moderation of UK studies, with exposure to traditional interview-based methods and regular moderation of digital research methods

• Close participation in the brainstorming and proposal writing for new business opportunities; designing bespoke research approaches

The successful candidates will participate in a rounded rotation scheme across the commercial qualitative team, learning from & working with specialists in both (i) ad hoc qual and (ii) long-term online communities. At the end of your graduate year, you will be asked to specify a preference for either specialism, and we will assign candidates to different areas, based on a combination of preference & business needs.

Having a flexible working culture where we work with our colleagues and celebrate our successes is important to us.  We invest our time in you and you’ll benefit from working alongside our expert teams.  Your manager will help you set goals to achieve your personal objectives throughout the year and help you exceed these.

And the fun stuff...

• 25 days’ holiday which increases over time to 30 days, plus an extra day for your birthday

• 4pm finish on Fridays

• Annual summer party, All Staff events, Team Christmas parties

• Season ticket loan

• Interest-free relocation loan to move to London, if needed

A huge variety of benefits including pension contributions, income protection, winter flu jabs, eye care vouchers, and online and high street discountsHaving a flexible working culture where we work with our colleagues and celebrate our successes is important to us.  We invest our time in you and you’ll benefit from working alongside our expert teams.  Your manager will help you set goals to achieve your personal objectives throughout the year and help you exceed these.

You will be encouraged to take responsibility from the outset - thrown straight into working on live projects. We have a structured programme providing a comprehensive foundation in research and how it is practically applied in a commercial environment. You’ll be trained in client management, project management and the nitty-gritty of research including methodologies, sampling, weighting and ethics. You’ll learn through real life, hands-on experience, webinars, seminars and specialist workshops. We’ll provide you with dedicated training designed to achieve the industry recognised Market Research Society (MRS) Advanced Certificate accreditation.

Those who are successful at the application stage will be progressed to a Skype interview and gamified test. The final stage will be a virtual assessment centre taking place in early December 2020. Therefore, please ensure you apply ASAP to ensure you have a successful chance in the process!