Research Executive

Research Executives – Kantar Insights

Location: Warwick / London

Introduction 

We are currently hiring Research Executives to join our dynamic Insights Team. If you are looking to kick start your professional career and have a passion for how consumers think and make their purchase decisions, as captured through market research, then this is the perfect opportunity for you. As a Research Executive, you will support live projects with our clients, who represent more than half of the world's most famous brands. You will learn on the job, supported by experts dedicated to helping you get the most from your experience. If you are motivated, curious about brands, and passionate about how people think and behave, we would love to hear from you.

This is a placement role within a dynamic, world-leading Marketing Research company. A (minimum) 12-month role within our Brand Team covering different aspects of market research and analysis of consumer data. Successful placements will have the opportunity to apply for permanent roles within the team if available.

Role responsibilities

From day 1 you will be working in our Insights Team supporting on live projects. You’ll be learning on the job, supported by a dedicated account team helping you learn and develop to get the most from your experience.

A research executive plays a crucial role in supporting projects by performing various tasks. They are responsible for updating questionnaires, checking survey scripts, and ensuring the accuracy of data and presentations. Research executives also run tests on the data and analyse and prepare reports. Additionally, they may be involved in ad hoc initiatives and play a key role in reporting periods.

Person specification

We’re looking for individuals with a passion for brands and advertising – and a curiosity to learn. Successful applicants will demonstrate the following:

• A desire to have a career within Market Research/Consumer Insights
• Are friendly, sociable, able to build relationships
• Have good communication skills
• Comfortable working with data and basic statistics
• Have familiarity and experience with Microsoft tools
• Are passionate, with a strong sense of curiosity
• Are able to work as part of a team
• Are comfortable managing and meeting deadlines
• Have great attention to detail
• Are a fast learner with regards to technology, AI and data systems

We’re looking for wide, diverse teams so whoever you are, if these sound like you, apply now!

Kantar Insights Division

Kantar is one of the world's largest insight, information, and consultancy groups, aiming to become the pre-eminent provider of compelling and inspirational insights for the global business community Along with the rest of Kantar, our mission is to understand people to inspire growth, that’s why we serve over half of the Fortune Top 500 companies. We partner with our clients to provide insights, direction and advice so they can make better business decisions in 5 key areas of marketing:

• Building and managing strong brands to deliver short and long-term business growth
• Creating emotionally engaging, effective advertising that delivers a return on investment
• Media allocation, context, and channel choices
• Development of new products and services from concept to launch and beyond
• Delivering a positive and powerful customer experience

We are proud of our work and our great team spirit. If you would like to work closely with other friendly, intelligent people, solving problems and collaborating on market research projects then this is the job for you.

Begin your journey by applying now!

Please send your CV and cover letter to [email protected]

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At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver. 

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us. 

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well being is taken into consideration. 

We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes. 

Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.