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Senior Research Executive - Trade, Innovation & Enterprise

Ipsos

Role overview 

The Trade, Innovation and Enterprise team within Ipsos Public Affairs is a fast-growing team of social researchers and evaluators. We work to understand and shape the interactions between businesses, government and the public. We carry out a wide range of qualitative and quantitative projects. These address some of the most important challenges facing society, including:

  • How and why businesses grow and prosper 
  • The challenges faced by different types of businesses, such as SMEs, or those in creative and tech industries
  • How the UK works and trades with other countries, and what businesses and the UK public think about this 
  • How UK organisations can meet their Net Zero commitments
  • Managing smaller quantitative and qualitative research and evaluation projects from inception through to the final reports and presentations, or supporting strands of larger projects

Our work has influenced policies (e.g. around the NI Protocol) and strategies (e.g. the National AI Strategy), strengthened the evidence base for various business tax reliefs (e.g. Video Games Tax Relief) and supported 

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Research Executive - quantitative or mixed-methods researcher with experience of project management to run high profile studies which influence government policy and decisions.

We are ideally looking for someone to be based from our London or Manchester office. Ipsos UK offers a hybrid working environment, 3 days in the office and working the rest from home. 

What will I be doing?

You will work with a range of research participants, including businesses, industry bodies, policy experts and the general public. You will be able to lead small project teams, where you will be the first point of contact for our clients, and have the chance to delegate to junior team members. You will also work on large multi-strand projects, where you will get to learn from experienced project directors, and other senior colleagues providing support and guidance. You will have the opportunity to help grow our key client accounts. 

You will be able to work closely with our associated policy teams, the Energy and Environment team, and Transport and Infrastructure team, as well as our evaluation, economic analysis, stats analysis and qualitative methods experts in Ipsos Public Affairs.

Our team is a diverse and exciting place to work within Ipsos Public Affairs. We run regular knowledge sharing sessions across projects, have dedicated wellbeing leads within the team, and have regular social activities.

The overarching responsibilities, and the key opportunities this role offers, include:

  • Helping us win exciting new work and develop your proposal writing skills. You will have the chance to work on short proposals or contribute to larger ones, with the support and guidance of senior colleagues
  • Support growth of our key client accounts, through your project work and client account management
  • Supporting the development of our team in a range of ways. This might include taking on specific support roles within the team (e.g. supporting us to monitor and grow specific client accounts)

Specific responsibilities might include:

  • Drafting questionnaires and topic guides to meet client/study objectives (for review by project directors)
  • Drafting fieldwork materials such as invitation letters, interviewer instructions and recruitment materials
  • Moderating in-depth interviews and discussion groups
  • Drafting quantitative data specifications and checking data files (e.g. samples or data tables) to be error-free
  • Developing qualitative analysis frameworks
  • Effectively managing relationships with suppliers and our internal operations colleagues, to ensure successful qualitative recruitment or survey fieldwork across a range of methods (like telephone and online)
  • Drafting analysis plans and report outlines with director support, and subsequently helping to create narrative-driven reports and presentations
  • Building and managing effective client relationships through strong communication with individual client teams and their stakeholders (e.g. policymakers)
  • Learning how to monitor projects’ financial progress
  • Ensuring projects are delivered to time, through effective project planning (including drafting and following timetables) and delegation

What do I need to bring with me?

  • The ability to comfortably manage smaller projects, or support larger ones, and deliver day-to-day
  • Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills, including the ability to follow complex processes
  • Time management skills, working across multiple projects, prioritising tasks efficiently and meeting deadlines
  • Any previous experience writing questionnaires, discussion guides, and fieldwork materials (e.g. recruitment screeners)
  • Ability to interrogate quantitative and qualitative data to find insights and narratives
  • An interest in our policy areas, such as trade, enterprise and/or economic policy
  • Ability to work well in teams
  • Confident and clear written and verbal communication skills, with a high level of accurate use of English, and the ability to write in a variety of styles
  • Curiosity and drive to help to grow our business

Desirable:

  • Knowledge or experience of bidding for new work and the research proposals process
  • Experience of contributing to primary research components of wider evaluation studies
  • Awareness or use of analysis software, such as NVivo, SPSS or other statistics packages

What is in it for me?

Ipsos UK offer an attractive basic salary and a rewards package including 25 days annual leave, a pension scheme and a great range of flexible benefits to suit your personal needs. For roles at Research Manager level and above we also offer private healthcare.

In addition to this we have a fantastic Learning & Development offer delivered through a mix of face to face, online or on-demand; you can read more by clicking here. 

We realise 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. 

Ipsos is committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views. We also 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.

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’re proud to share we’ve received our Great Place to Work Certification in 2022 & 2023!

The Public Affairs Service Line is the world leader in Social and Opinion Research. We work with clients on political and public opinion polling, citizen and stakeholder management, social policy improvement, sustainable development strategy and identifying societal trends and perceptions across several sectors. We assess how government and public affairs policies as well as societal trends and views impact our client’s brand/products/markets.

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