Senior Research Executive

Job title:

Senior Research Executive

Company:

Thinks Insight & Strategy

Job description

Senior Research ExecutiveJob Description | June 2024Thinks Insight & Strategy is an international insight and strategy consultancy. We use research and engagement techniques to provide our clients with the insight they need to make better decisions.Founded in 2010, we have grown to over 80 colleagues today. Across the corporate, public and third sectors, we use the full spectrum of primary research techniques to get closer to the people that matter most to our clients. We deliver a huge variety of projects to a wide and exciting range of clients, but most of our work can be grouped under three broad headings:

• Strategic insight: Research with public, stakeholder, opinion former and colleague audiences, to understand their experiences, views, feelings, and behaviours. We specialise in delivering insight to support corporate and public policy decisions and help navigate reputation and brand issues.

• Behavioural: Combine scientific rigour with practical and creative thinking to identify, explain and influence the behaviours that matter for our clients.

• Communications & campaign development: From territory identification and narrative development to message and creative testing, we specialise in research to help our clients influence opinion, change behaviour and win the argument.

• Engagement: We specialise in helping clients work with their most important audiences to navigate moments of challenge and change. Deliberative citizen dialogue and engagement; customer co-creation and innovation; Stakeholder, opinion-former and colleague engagement.

Our success to date is rooted in a number of factors:

• We understand the wider context: We are known for our grasp of the social, cultural and political context. Clients come to us with challenges where identifying the right strategy relies on that broader knowledge and experience.

• We build lasting client relationships: We build strong partnerships with our clients. It is why our clients stay with us, take us when they move organisation, and recommend us to their peers.

• We are brave, agile and innovative: We have a reputation for taking on the most complex challenges with tenacity and creativity and delivering to a standard that exceeds client expectations.

• We do great work: Challenging ourselves (and often our clients) to get the best and the most out of every project.

But most of all, our clients praise the fantastic people in our business. We are a talented team with a strong culture: Life at Thinks Insight & Strategy is fast paced, intellectually stretching and rewarding. We support one another and ensure everyone has opportunities to grow, pursue their talents and do work they are proud of. In December 2019, we became an Employee-Owned business, ensuring that we all share in the company’s future success.About the roleSenior Research Executives have experience of multiple projects and methodologies, and it shows. They are able to identify what needs to happen to make a project run and develop a feasible plan for getting it done. They also have an understanding of project finances and can run a smaller project direct to a Research Director. SREs conduct focus groups and face to face depth interviews on their own and can set out a snappy note of the key findings for the rest of the team. SREs can draft sections of reports and contribute fully to brainstorms and theming sessions. SREs are also visible to clients, often presenting some elements of a debrief, and where possible owning the relationship with a ‘mark’ on the client side. SREs get a taste of line management by running the Thinks Insight & Strategy intern programme on a rotating basis.Key responsibilitiesProject Management

• Able to plan the organisational/administrative elements of a project

• Able to produce first drafts of a project timeline

• Manage finances in terms of tracking invoices; agreeing prices with suppliers; etc.

• Able to run small projects to time and budget with one senior colleague

• Writes agendas for client meetings

• Provides day-to-day client liaison

• Manages own workload within a project

Qualitative Fieldwork

• Moderate viewed groups

• Table facilitation at workshops/delib

• Conduct large numbers of interviews – with senior stakeholders

• Draft discussion guide / agenda

• Identify suitable techniques and stimulus ideas

• Develops scripts and activities for online communities/mobile/pre-tasks

Quantitative fieldwork

• Drafts questionnaire

• Manages statistical suppliers etc.

• Creates sample specification

• Briefs quant supplier (e.g., telephone survey with stakeholders)

• Script checks

Analysis, Reporting and Presenting

• Prepares analytical charting of quant

• Drafts sections of reports

• Lays out qualitative outputs (e.g., rankings/exercise outputs)

• Presents sections of debriefs

Client Relationships & Development

• Maintains a watching brief for relevant stories/hooks that could offer an opportunity to contact client & suggests these to senior colleagues

• Maintains contact with any client personnel on a similar level

• Maintains a personal list of contacts/potential clients/lapsed clients

New Business Development & Marketing

• Writes first draft of proposal sections with guidance

• Gets costs from suppliers

• Writes/tailors case studies and profiles to emphasise key aspects of proposals

• Presents sections at Breakfast Briefings/events

• Leads project management of internal Thinks Insight & Strategy projects

• Actively seeks out and attends networking events

• Keeps a continuous eye out for debates related to areas of Thinks Insight & Strategy’s work

People Management

• Manages internship programme

• Line manages interns through their time with Thinks Insight & Strategy

We are looking for someone who:

• Is able to thrive in a fast-paced, intellectually stretching organisation

• Is commercially minded

• Can provide evidence of their contribution to previous projects

• Has some experience in the insight industry with a minimum of 1-2 years of professional experience across qualitative research methods. Additional experience of quantitative methods would be ideal.

Our Offer

• Competitive salary dependent on experience

• Pension: After a successful probation period of three months, we will commence pension contributions equivalent to 8% of your gross salary into the pension scheme

• Bonus scheme: Thinks is majority owned by an Employee Ownership Trust. This means that all colleagues are able to participate in any distribution of company profits. The Trust normally seeks to make a distribution twice each year, and colleagues receive a share proportional to their salary over the relevant period. Because we are employee owned, the first £3,600 of any bonuses within each tax year is free of income tax

• Holiday: 30 days per calendar year*

• 19 in 20 working days: Staff who opt into this policy are eligible for one additional day off every 4 weeks, this is on top of your annual leave allowance (*annual holiday allowance is calculated on a pro rata basis accordingly to 28.5 days for full-time staff)

• Core hours: To support individual working styles and responsibilities we operate a policy of core working hours from 10am-4pm

• Notice period: Three months

• Group insurances: After a successful probation period you will be eligible for cover under our group insurances (Group Life Assurance, Group Income Protection and Critical Illness Cover)

• Private Medical Insurance: We offer private medical insurance through Vitality as a taxable benefit to all staff after a successful probationary period. Thinks Insight & Strategy will cover your premium, while you only need to cover the tax implications

• Parental leave policies: We offer generous, enhanced, and equitable maternity/paternity/adoption leave policies to all staff who have been with us for more than a year

Expected salary

Location

London

Job date

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 22:12:09 GMT

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