Make Your Mark at Ipsos
Are you an experienced project manager who enjoys bringing complex research projects together? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, juggling priorities and working collaboratively with researchers, suppliers and clients? If you're looking to develop your career within qualitative research, we'd love to hear from you.
About the role
You'll join Ipsos Understanding Unlimited (UU), our qualitative research team, working alongside our researchers to organise and deliver high-quality research for clients across sectors including finance, FMCG and automotive. You'll work across UK and international projects, using methodologies ranging from face-to-face focus groups and interviews to online communities and other digital approaches.
This is a hands-on project management role where you'll manage projects end to end, from creating budgets and project plans through to coordinating suppliers, recruitment and delivery. You'll contribute to project design, advise on screeners and respondent profiles, negotiate supplier costs and keep projects on track financially.
You'll be joining a lively, fast-paced team where attention to detail, collaboration and creative problem solving are key. You'll also have opportunities to identify smarter and more efficient ways of working, share project learnings and continue developing your project management expertise.
About you
Essential skills:
- At least two years' qualitative project management experience, or experience in a related field such as market research recruitment
- Good understanding of the full market research project lifecycle
- Strong organisation skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
- Confident written and verbal communication skills
- Experience managing budgets and project finances
- Strong attention to detail and ownership of your work
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
- Proficiency in AI use and adoption to enhance day-to-day tasks
Desirable skills:
- Experience contributing to client meetings and advising on practical project delivery
- Strong client management experience
- Knowledge of long-term community panels, or an enthusiasm to learn about them
Behaviours:
- Resilient, flexible and agile
- Curious, with a desire to keep learning
- Empathetic and an active listener
- Collaborative and a strong team player
- Positive, proactive and solutions focused
- Creative in your thinking
- Motivated and self-aware
Benefits
We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you as an individual. Our standard benefits include 25 days annual leave, pension contribution, income protection and life assurance. In addition, there are a range of health & wellbeing, financial benefits and professional development opportunities.
We have a hybrid approach to work and ask people to be in the office or with clients for 3 days per week. We appreciate 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.
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, as a more diverse workforce enables us to better reflect and understand the world we research and ultimately deliver better research and insight to our clients. We are proud to be a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
Your application will be reviewed by someone from our Talent Team who will be in touch either way to let you know the outcome.
Ready to have an impact? Apply now!
The Ipsos Understanding Unlimited service line uses Qualitative techniques to humanize data and bring cultural intelligence into our clients’ thinking. We bring ‘life to life’, through listening, observing and illuminating human interactions. Ipsos UU is the largest qualitative research company in the world. IUU has a community of 1300 specialists with diverse backgrounds and skill sets (e.g. ethnographers, community managers, semioticians) who understand people better than anyone else, simply because we have done more research for more clients in more countries than anyone else. With us, clients are fluent in 88 cultures.
Skills Required
- At least two years of qualitative project management experience or related market research recruitment experience
- Understanding of the full market research project lifecycle
- Strong organization skills and ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience managing budgets and project finances
- Strong attention to detail and ownership of work
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
- Proficiency in AI use and adoption for day-to-day tasks
- Experience contributing to client meetings and advising on practical project delivery
- Strong client management experience
- Knowledge of long-term community panels or enthusiasm to learn about them
Ipsos Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Ipsos and has not been reviewed or approved by Ipsos.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off policies include generous vacation allowances, paid sick time, volunteer days, Summer Fridays, and an extra birthday day in some regions. Allowances in some markets increase with tenure and include options to buy or sell holiday time.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage spans multiple medical plans, dental and vision care, an Employee Assistance Program, and employer-funded income protection and life assurance in certain regions. Private medical coverage is offered for some levels, alongside mental health support resources.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is available across regions, with multi-month options and equal maternity and paternity leave in the UK. Flexible working approaches and family-friendly policies are emphasized.
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What We Do
In our world of rapid change, the need for reliable information to make confident decisions has never been greater. At Ipsos we believe our clients need more than a data supplier, they need a partner who can produce accurate and relevant information and turn it into actionable truth. This is why our passionately curious experts not only provide the most precise measurement, but shape it to provide True Understanding of Society, Markets and People. To do this we use the best of science, technology and know-how and apply the principles of security, simplicity, speed and substance to everything we do. So that our clients can act faster, smarter and bolder. Ultimately, success comes down to a simple truth: YOU ACT BETTER WHEN YOU ARE SURE First listed on the Paris Stock Exchange: July 1, 1999 Total revenues in 2019: 2,003.3 million euros
