Start Date- ASAP – also open to 2021 graduates for a slightly later start date

The Advanced Analytics Team:

Are you passionate about data and want to learn more about statistical analysis and modelling? If so, we are recruiting for Graduate Research Analysts to join the Advanced Analytics team to support our colleagues in either Consumer (Market Strategy and Understanding) or healthcare market research (Ipsos Healthcare).

The Advanced Analytics team supports client facing teams with methodological advice and statistical modelling. We are looking for Graduates to join us in our Graduate Scheme and embrace a career in Advanced Analytics within Market Research.  Our Graduate Research Analysts will be part of a global team working with analytical experts all over the world, working on multi-country projects. This is a fantastic opportunity to specialize whilst gaining experience and knowledge on a variety of different topics and subjects.

Your Role:

During your time with us, you can expect to get involved in running exploratory analytics, such as correlations, factor analysis, driver/predictive modelling, Brand mapping, etc.  You will also be helping to put together different interactive Excel based tools, such as segmentation profiling tools or typing tools. Learning to work with large data sets exploring relationships in the data.  In addition to learning more about what we do in as part of Ipsos. You will need to be creative and innovative, showing willingness to step outside the box and experiment and look for best solutions to modelling problems.

Your primary focus will be to provide analytical and technical support on projects, gaining exposure to and experience in a great number of analytical techniques. Key responsibilities include:

• Assisting senior team members in performing statistical analysis and modelling tasks on consumer and healthcare projects

• Learning how to use statistical software packages and key analytical approaches including SPSS, R and Python

• Develop and apply a good understanding and knowledge of the analytical products that the team supports

• Learning to understand and to explore large (sometime complex) data structures, looking for outliers and exploring reasons for missing values

• Become knowledgeable about the market research industry, client sectors and the Ipsos analytical offer

About You:

You’ll need:  

• A good related numerical degree (e.g. statistics, mathematics, psychology, computer science, etc)

• Good understanding of basic statistics

• Experience with Excel is essential

• To have excellent attention to detail

• Experience of using a mathematical or statistical software such as SPSS, SAS or R is an asset, but not required

• Data preparation skills with the ability or understanding of translating such data to provide value-added client insights, and present complex data clearly and incisively

• A willingness to learn, understand and improve

• A proactive team approach to help others

• Self-management and exceptional time management skills – ability to plan time well and carry out tasks to an expected standard

• Accountability for managing your own workload and responsibility for the delivery of your own projects

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal

• Trouble-shooting skills with the ability to think on your feet in a variety of situations

• An interest in developing programming skills or prior experience are desirable but not essential (e.g. Matlab, SQL, R, Python, etc)

Along with:

• Fluency in English; any other languages are an advantage as you will be working with international colleagues

• Permanent and unrestricted right to work and remain in the UK

Our Offer:

As part of Generation Ipsos, you will be encouraged to take responsibility from the outset and will be working on live client projects. Our structured training programme will provide 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 fundamentals of research including methodologies, sampling, weighting and ethics. You will learn through real life, hands-on experience, webinars, seminars and specialist workshops. We will provide you with dedicated training designed to achieve the industry recognised Market Research Society (MRS) Advanced Certificate accreditation and commit to developing you throughout your career at Ipsos.

The Application Process:

Those who are successful at this stage will be progressed to a gamified test and a Skype interview. The final stages would be two virtual interviews with the team.

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.