Make Your Mark at Ipsos
Are you a research professional looking to take ownership of impactful projects, build strong client relationships, and deliver insights that influence real-world decisions? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment where curiosity, analytical thinking, and innovation are valued? If so, we'd love to hear from you.
About the Role
The Ipsos Observer team specialises in bespoke research solutions, helping organisations understand customer behaviour, public opinion, and market trends. Working across sectors including government, academia, charities and commercial organisations, the team delivers a diverse range of research projects, from local studies to complex international programmes.
As a Senior Research Executive, you will play a key role in designing and delivering high-quality research that helps clients make informed decisions. You'll manage medium-sized projects from inception through to delivery, while also contributing to larger, more complex studies as part of wider project teams. Working closely with clients, you'll help translate business challenges into effective research solutions and develop compelling insights that drive action.
This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious researcher who enjoys combining project management, research expertise, client engagement and storytelling with data. You'll have the chance to work across a wide variety of sectors and methodologies, develop broad research skills, mentor junior colleagues, and contribute to business growth within a supportive and collaborative team.
About You
Essential Skills:
- Experience in quantitative market research, ideally within an agency, consultancy or client-facing environment.
- Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities simultaneously.
- Experience designing and reviewing research materials, including questionnaires.
- Proven ability to analyse findings and produce insightful reports and presentations tailored to client needs.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Proficiency in AI use and adoption to enhance research, analysis and day-to-day business activities.
Desirable Skills:
- Experience mentoring, coaching or supporting junior team members.
- Knowledge of data analysis software such as SPSS, R or equivalent research tools.
- Experience building and developing client relationships.
- Ability to support new business activity through proposals and pitches.
- Experience managing project budgets and contributing to commercial performance.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise effectively and consistently deliver high-quality work.
Behaviours:
- Curiosity and lifelong learning
- Analytical and critical thinking
- Collaboration and relationship building
- Creative thinking and problem-solving
- Customer and service orientation
- Technological literacy
- Resilience, adaptability and agility
- Empathy and active listening
- Motivation and self-awareness
- Attention to detail and personal accountability
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 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 - 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. We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident scheme, certified as a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. We 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!
Observer offers fast and on-demand access to real consumers, citizens and business across all markets and modes. With a flexible service model, we provide a high-end 24/7 DIY platform for clients to build their own surveys as well as assisted service for those who prefer to work directly with a researcher. We are specialized in survey management, data collection and data delivery, well suited to clients that don’t need analysis and recommendations, but still require execution delivered in a format that helps them run analysis quickly and accurately with data they can trust.
Skills Required
- Experience in quantitative market research within an agency, consultancy or client-facing environment
- Strong project management skills with ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities
- Experience designing and reviewing research materials including questionnaires
- Proven ability to analyse findings and produce insightful reports and presentations tailored to client needs
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Proficiency in AI use and adoption to enhance research and analysis
- Experience mentoring, coaching or supporting junior team members
- Knowledge of data analysis software such as SPSS, R or equivalent research tools
- Experience building and developing client relationships
- Ability to support new business activity through proposals and pitches
- Experience managing project budgets and contributing to commercial performance
- Strong organisational skills with ability to prioritise effectively and consistently deliver high-quality work
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
