Location: Athens
Office requirement: Hybrid, 2 days per week at the office
Employment type: Permanent
Seniority level: Junior
As our Junior Research Operations Executive, you’ll:
Be responsible for working on the operational aspect of multiple multinational market research projects, including scripting, script checking, fieldwork management, data uploads, and data checking. The role also entails communicating with our panel partners, translation providers, and our scripting partners around the world.
This is a non-client-facing role with the Research Executive responsible for supporting client-facing researchers in London and New York teams.
What do I need to bring with me?You’ll need to be able to demonstrate the core skills this role requires. Here’s what the team will be looking for in you:
- Being able to get up to speed on our processes quickly and then work independently, efficiently, and accurately.
- The ability to communicate clearly and concisely in English is a key element of the role.
- Checking and approving questionnaire scripts before release to the client
- Checking translated versions have been correctly overlaid
- Ensuring quality control measures are in place
- Liaising with the Data team to ensure data is processed appropriately
- Checking data / identifying issues and working collaboratively to deliver clean data files
- Ensuring effective communication with suppliers throughout the project and ensuring that they have access to all relevant information
- Managing project launch with panel providers
- Making decisions during fieldwork in order to meet the deadlines. This includes knowing when to accelerate fieldwork by using other research methods, as well as identifying issues early enough to overcome delays
- Working collaboratively with our product team and engineers to develop operational solutions to increase efficiency within the team
- Trialling beta products/platforms, providing feedback, and assisting in rolling these out to the wider team
At GWI, you’ll find meaningful work, visible impact, and a culture that empowers you to do your best. Our package includes:
- Time to recharge – 25 days’ annual leave and office closures over the holidays.
- Health & wellbeing – Private insurance for you and your family, plus mental and physical wellbeing support.
- Financial benefits – Competitive salary, reward and recognition programs, and payroll giving options.
- Flexibility & balance – Flexitime, early Friday finishes, work-from-anywhere freedom, and a “work from home” budget.
- Family first – Enhanced parental leave and carer days so you can prioritise what matters most.
- Career growth – Accredited learning, a generous training budget, and a fully paid international conference each year for Engineering and Data Science roles.
- Community & impact – DE&I committee, volunteering opportunities, 100% donation matching, and ways to give back locally.
- Extra perks – Mobile phone contract and restaurant ticket options for added convenience.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 🫶
Diversity is fundamental to who we are—as a data company and as a workplace. Our data reflects global realities, and so must our teams. We strive to build a workforce as diverse and inclusive as the insights we deliver.
As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from disabled candidates and are committed to making adjustments throughout the hiring process—whether that's extra time, materials in advance or a different format, breaks, an adjusted interview format, assistive tools, or flexible scheduling. We're happy to discuss whatever would work best for you.
We actively encourage applications from underrepresented and marginalised communities.
At GWI, you'll find a place to contribute meaningfully, grow professionally, and belong fully.
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Skills Required
- Ability to learn processes quickly and work independently, efficiently, and accurately
- Clear and concise communication in English
- Ability to check and approve questionnaire scripts
- Ability to verify translated questionnaire versions
- Quality control skills
- Ability to liaise with data teams and ensure appropriate data processing
- Ability to check data and identify issues
- Supplier and partner communication skills
- Project launch and fieldwork management skills
- Ability to make fieldwork decisions and meet deadlines
- Ability to collaborate with product and engineering teams
- Ability to trial products or platforms and provide feedback
What We Do
We’re the target audience company that does things a bit differently. Our job is to cut through the noise and give you facts you can trust. Our flagship study represents more than 2 billion people around the world, and it tells you how consumers are changing; their actions, ideals, perceptions, feelings... (you get the gist). The world’s largest (and smallest) brands, marketing agencies and media organizations rely on us every day to help them stand out. Working with the likes of Twitter, Google, Spotify, WPP, IPG and Omnicom Group, we help them find really original and in-depth insights through our one-of-a-kind platform. And if that doesn’t float your boat, we’ve got a whole bunch of custom services to let you do more tailored research across 48 countries – asking whoever you want, whatever you want. We’re growing fast, and we’re always on the lookout for out-of-the-box thinkers to help us do more great things.
