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

We have an exciting opportunity to work for a client whose mission is to help smokers move to less-harmful options. Not only is this client committed to creating a smoke-free world but also leading the way in the industry.

WHAT WE DO

This role will be part of our Market Strategy & Understanding solutions. This particular area comprises of different teams of experts who are passionate about helping clients identify, qualify, optimise and forecast the potential of innovations, products and packaging. As well as understanding their market, where the best growth opportunities are, and optimising their brand positioning. Our rapid and validated end-to-end solutions enable clients to be faster in seizing opportunities and being more agile in bringing their products to market.

Specifically, the Graduate Research Executive will be part of a specialist team supporting one major client – our work informs over 70% of the decisions this client makes in the pursuit of their smoke-free vision. We run two large-scale research programmes across over 40 countries to understand and map what consumers use when they feel a crave for nicotine. The insights from this research is then used to help our client make decisions to help consumers quit harmful products and trade them for reduced-risk alternatives. Our client has now helped over 15 million smokers worldwide make this switch, and the objective is to reach 40 million by 2025!

YOUR ROLE:

We are looking for graduates from any degree discipline to join us and embrace a career in research. It’s not just about putting numbers to charts – it’s about looking at the data as a whole and having a point of view on what it means and the implications for our client.

As a Graduate Research Executive, you’ll be a key member of the team working towards taking responsibility on ad-hoc requests, projects and analysis across one or more product categories on a client’s behalf.

Your key daily responsibilities will include:

• Preparing and updating project plans

• Checking data files and tables

• Quality checking key deliverables, ensuring they are delivered accurately and to the highest quality

• Preparing, planning, prioritising and communicating effectively to ensure deliverables are sent to schedule

• Populating PowerPoint reports and writing commentary

• Building and maintaining effective working relationships with internal suppliers and team members

• Getting involved in wider team initiatives intended to continuously improve how we work and what we do.

ABOUT YOU:

• A passion for using research to help business create a better world, along with an openness and motivation to get stuck into understand why people do what they do, and how we can use that understanding to help smokers switch to better alternatives.

• A hunger to unpick questions into their constituent parts, to diagnose opportunities and be able to influence decisions

• A natural drive to not just deliver facts and numbers, but to interpret those into the “so what” and the “now what”

• The ability to work creatively and think commercially

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

• Exceptional attention to detail and a meticulous approach to processing and analysing data

• Strong interpersonal skills – the ability to communicate clearly and persuasively

Along with ….

• The unrestricted right to work in the UK

OUR OFFER

Our Generation Ipsos programme provides a comprehensive foundation in research and how it’s 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.   Networking is a key skill, so we have Early Careers events with other Graduates, Placement Students and Interns across the company.

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 discounts

HOW TO APPLY

Applications will close at 9.00am on Friday, 23rd July, but we may close early if we receive a high volume of applications, so we encourage you to please apply as soon as possible, if you are interested!

Those who are successful at the application stage will be progressed to a gamified test and virtual video interview. 

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 understand the importance of commitments you may have outside of work and we consider all flexible working applications - please highlight what you are looking for when you make your application.