Senior Research Executive, £27,000 - £38,000, London

I'm currently looking for a Mixed Method Senior Research Executive to join my client who are an independent research agency that work with some of the UK's most exciting brands! The working environment is superb, and they have a very active social side with vibrant and open plan offices. Staff turnover is low, due to the work-life balance that they provide in an exciting and fast-paced environment. As a Senior Research Executive your main focus would be working across both Retail & Tech clients within the UK.

What do they do?

They are an independent market research agency that delivers engaging & actionable insight across several sectors. The agency has continued to see significant growth over the last few years and punch well above their weight whilst delivering bespoke research across their individual & diverse projects.

What they would like from you?

• You're a Research Executive who is ready to make the step up OR a Senior Research Executive with a minimum of 3 years experience in a client or agency role.
• Excited by the opportunity to be involves in high profile Qual & Quant projects within Tech and Retail
• Experience writing questionnaires and discussion guides
• Have a natural numerical analytical aptitude
• Able to Manage day-to-day client relationships
• Comfortable presenting to different audiences
• You have a curious and enquiring mind with strong knowledge of research fundamentals
• Strong organisational and project management skills
• SPSS experience would be benefit

What's in it for you?

You can expect to receive an excellent basic salary which is paying between £27,000 - £38,000, a contributory pension plan, a discretionary annual bonus scheme, private healthcare, 25 days holiday, cool open-plan office, interest-free season ticket loan, regular social events, paid for monthly lunches and more. Everyone is of course working from home at the moment but the will be the opportunity to work from home when people return to the office 2-3 days a week.

If you would like to know more about this position, then please click on the link to apply OR reach out directly to Mark Darlington at Stonor Recruitment

Are you a Qualitative Researcher who has a passion for consumer insights?

Senior Research Executive, £27,000 - £38,000, London

I'm currently looking for a Qual Senior Research Executive to join my client who are an independent research agency that work with some of the UK's most exciting brands! The working environment is superb, and they have a very active social side with vibrant and open plan offices. Staff turnover is low, due to the work-life balance that they provide in an exciting and fast-paced environment. As a Senior Research Executive in the Qual team you will have a great opportunity to work on lots of projects across different sectors including Retail, Media, Tech, Gaming, Automotive and Telecoms in the UK and abroad.

What do they do?

They are an independent market research agency that delivers engaging & actionable insight across several sectors. The agency has continued to see significant growth over the last few years and punch well above their weight whilst delivering bespoke research across their individual & diverse projects.

What they would like from you?

• You're a Research Executive who is ready to make the step up OR a Senior Research Executive who wants the challenge of growing their career
• You already have some experience of fieldwork
• Experience writing questionnaires and discussion guides
• Have a natural numerical analytical aptitude
• Able to Manage day-to-day client relationships
• Comfortable presenting to different audiences
• You have a curious and enquiring mind with strong knowledge of research fundamentals
• Strong organisational and project management skills
• Video editing experience would be beneficial

What's in it for you?

You can expect to receive an excellent basic salary which is paying between £27,000 - £38,000, a contributory pension plan, a discretionary annual bonus scheme, private healthcare, 25 days holiday, cool open-plan office, interest-free season ticket loan, regular social events, paid for monthly lunches and more. Everyone is of course working from home at the moment but the will be the opportunity to work from home when people return to the office 2-3 days a week.

If you would like to know more about this position, then please click on the link to apply OR reach of directly to Mark Darlington at Stonor Recruitment

Associate Research Director
£45,000-65,000 DOE

WFH 3-4 days, flexible working & bonus

The company
An award-winning Market Research agency with a very impressive client list that include a number the UK's leading brands are now looking for a talented and creative Associate Research Director with a passion for consumer insight to strengthen their expanding team. Our client is willing to consider Quant, Qual or mixed method researchers for this particular role

The Opportunity
This role is ideal for an Associate Research Director to use their expert Quant OR Qual research abilities to create solutions, ideas and be innovative to produce the best results for their clients and make a real difference. With a variety of complex, high value, strategic projects you can be excited at the fact as an AD at this agency you will helping create direction for some of the UK's leading brands.

Required skills:

• Proven experience in designing and delivering high complex, multi-strand projects and meeting deadlines
• A creative mind that can deliver bespoke research solutions
• Ability to inspire those in the team and guide development
• Drive forward innovation
• Quantitative and OR Qualitative research skills

What's in it for you?
You can expect to receive an excellent basic salary, performance-related bonus scheme, private health care, pension, interest-free season ticket loan for rail commutes and flexible working (finding the balance between work/home life) when things return to normal. And finally join a Market Research agency that believes in rewarding its staff for their hard work through flexibility, support and progression.

If you would like to know more about the role and the agency, please apply and we can go from there.

Marketing Operations Manager

Global Events / Exhibitions Business

London (Flex Working Available)

£55,000 10% Bonus Benefits / Perks

Keywords / Skills / Platforms / Experience snapshot:

Marketing Data

Analytical Insights

Marketing Automation

Salesforce / Pardot

Power BI

MQL/SQL

Explori

The Company:

One of the world's leading global events organisers, producing and delivering innovative and market-leading events for decades across several business verticals. They organise both live and digital events every year, connecting buyers with spending and decision-making power with solution providers. There is no denying that COVID hit the events industry hard, but due to rapid development of the digital event offering and the return of international events already back up and running, they are very happy with the projected recovery.

The Role:

The Marketing Operations role is a data driven position that will underpin the strategic direction of marketing campaigns, customer segmentation, product development and strategic business decisions.

You will work within the Gaming event division across multi-channel platforms in both the B2B and affiliate markets, in partnership with brand marketing teams and commercial leadership, to establish best practices, operational & process improvement, and analytical insights. Utilising marketing technology platforms, including Pardot, Power BI, Salesforce and Explori, you will be a champion of data, connecting it throughout the customer journey, and generating the insights that will shape digital products and live event propositions.

A successful candidate will be data and insight driven with a strong understanding of marketing KPIs and marketing automation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Comprehensively understand business objectives and cross-functional team goals and translate these into optimised processes for campaign planning, data segmentation and performance measurement
• Continuously monitor customer NPV and identify trends to feedback actionable insights to brand teams that influence the product development roadmap.
• Own the marketing database management strategy that ensures data integrity, supports complex segmentation, and enforces legal governance; partner with the brand marketing and central data teams to ensure data hygiene in customer databases.
• Work with brand teams to manage, enhance and optimise the end-to-end customer data journey aligned to a defined data model.
• Establish brand/campaign KPIs and success metrics to provide reporting and insight to support decision making.
• Utilise dashboards in Power BI to provide visibility and insight of customer data universe engagement, behaviours, segmentation, and sentiment.
• Collaborate with commercial and brand teams to identify and implement processes to increase sales opportunities through refined lead management strategies.
• Work closely with Group Marketing Operations to align on best practices, new technologies and cross-sector benchmarking.

You:

The successful candidate will have a strong blend of the below skills & experience:

• Excellent knowledge of marketing automation and CRM technology (Pardot & Salesforce highly desirable)
• Deep analytical skills with demonstrated ability to translate complex data into concrete business recommendations.
• Strong experience in areas including database management, insight development, audience segmentation and data enrichment.
• Experience developing implementation roadmaps and processes around new technology.
• Experience in operational benchmarking and metrics including acquisition rates, conversion rates, database growth, lead nurture, engagement, MQL/SQL
• Familiarity with data privacy regulations such as GDPR and PECR
• Desirable - Experience of working with and generating insights from data visualisation platforms (Salesforce Einstein and Power BI ideal)

Senior Planner - Retail Marketing Agency - Buckinghamshire - £50k - £70k

***Flexible working offered***

The company

We are recruiting for a retail focused marketing agency who have been creating campaigns for some of the world's most iconic brands for more than 30 years.

Part of one of the largest marketing communications networks in the world, this agency have 260 employees split across nine offices in the UK & America. They specialise in helping their clients create connected experiences with their customers through core practice areas of Retailer, Shopper and Amazon Marketing Services.

The role

The Senior Planner or Strategist role is an incredibly important hire for the agency. The successful candidate will report directly to the MD and be the go-to planning resource for the account/creative teams for large strategic shopper initiatives as well as smaller quick turn around projects.

You will:

• Develop strong working relationships with clients to become their trusted strategic partner
• Build shopper marketing planning initiatives from scratch in conjunction with the creative team.
• Run research to provide actionable insight on competitor activity
• Identify the right touch points (traditional or digital) to best influence the customer
• Work closely with the MD and Creative Director to establish planning as the bedrock of the agency's offering.
• Assist in new business pitches as and when required.

For which you will need:

• Exceptional creative brief writing and journey mapping skills
• Experience building learning plans for both qualitative and quantitative research initiatives
• Working knowledge of common planning tools - Mintel, Experian, Simmons, Path to Purchase, IRI, Nielsen etc
• Knowledge of retailer channel, in particular grocery
• Compelling communication skills, ability to distill complex concepts into actionable directives

Must have:

• 3 years minimum in a similar role for an agency
• Thorough understanding of Shopper Marketing/Activation

What's in it for you?

This is a stand out opportunity to join the senior management team of a network agency in what will effectively be a Head of Planning role.

As you would expect, the benefits are excellent.

• 28 days holiday bank hols
• Contributory pension @ 4%
• Flexible working
• Healthcare
• Perk box
• Company car allowance
• Free parking

Please apply ASAP or contact

Senior Research Executive

£26-38K DOE, WFH 3-4days, flexi-time, bonus, 28 days holiday, pension

This is the chance to join an award-winning market research agency, that has been delivering exceptional Insight and innovative techniques for their clients for over 25 years and are proud to count some of the UK'S biggest brands among their clients.

They are now looking for a creative and ambitious Senior Research Executive who has a real passion for insight to join them in their team. The ideal candidate should have more than 2 year's experience in an agency and/or client-side environment. No two days will be the same in this fast-paced environment as you would be working across a variety of clients with opportunities to lead your own projects while supporting senior teams on more complex assignments.

What's in it for you?

This is a great opportunity to join an agency that will want to push you forward and help you develop within the agency and as such it offers

• An attractive salary, bonus
• Healthcare
• Dental plan
• Pension
• 28 days' holiday birthday bank holidays
• Interest-free season ticket loan on offer for all rail commuters.
• Scope for flexi-time and working from home to find that right life balance for you.

As a business, they are recognised for developing talent and providing a fun, upbeat environment to work in. As well as Senior Research Executive's we will also consider Research Executives.

If you are looking for an agency that truly means what they say, then this could be the job for you!

Research Manager, £35,000-48,000 DOE flexible working/3-4 days WFH

The company

An award-winning Market Research agency with a very impressive client list which include a number of the UK's leading brands are now looking for a talented and creative Research Manager with a passion for consumer insight to strengthen their expanding team.

The Opportunity

This role is ideal for a Research Manager to use their expert Quantitative knowledge and experience plus abilities to create solutions, ideas and be innovative to produce the best results for their clients and make a real difference. With a variety of your own project types as well as being involved in high complex projects you can be excited at the fact as a Research Manager at this agency you will helping create direction for some of the UK's leading brands. This agency massively supports career progression to help their RM's fast-track their careers and move forward within the agency.

Required skills:

• Previous retail, tech/telecoms, FMCG or travel research (desired)
• Proven experience in designing and delivering projects and meeting deadlines
• A creative mind that can deliver bespoke research solutions
• Experience running combined methodologies
• Ability to inspire those in the team with less experience
• Qual research skills

Whats in it for you?

You can expect to receive an excellent basic salary, performance-related bonus scheme, private health care, pension, interest-free season ticket loan for rail commutes and flexible/remote working (finding the balance between work/home life). And finally join a Market Research agency that believes in rewarding its staff for their hard work through flexibility, support and progression.

If you would like to know more about the role and the agency please apply and we can go from there.

Associate Research Director-Quant
£45,000-65,000 DOE WFH 3-4 days, flexible working & bonus

The company
An award-winning Market Research agency with a very impressive client list that include a number the UK's leading brands are now looking for a talented and creative Associate Research Director with a passion for consumer insight to strengthen their expanding team.

The Opportunity
This role is ideal for an Associate Research Director to use their expert Quant research abilities to create solutions, ideas and be innovative to produce the best results for their clients and make a real difference. With a variety of complex, high value, strategic projects you can be excited at the fact as an AD at this agency you will helping create direction for some of the UK's leading brands.

Required skills:

• Proven experience in designing and delivering high complex, multi-strand projects and meeting deadlines
• A creative mind that can deliver bespoke research solutions
• Ability to inspire those in the team and guide development
• Drive forward innovation
• Quantitative research skills

What's in it for you?
You can expect to receive an excellent basic salary, performance-related bonus scheme, private health care, pension, interest-free season ticket loan for rail commutes and flexible working (finding the balance between work/home life). And finally join a Market Research agency that believes in rewarding its staff for their hard work through flexibility, support and progression.

If you would like to know more about the role and the agency, please apply and we can go from there.

Research Director, £50,000-£75,000 flexible working/3-4 days WFH

Our client has been delivering exceptional Insight and techniques for their clients for over 25 years and are proud to count some of the UK's leading consumer brands amongst their clients. They are an award-winning Market Research agency that are now looking for a talented and creative Research Director that has passion for research & insight to strengthen their expanding team.

The ideal candidate should have more than 5 years' experience within an agency. No one day will be the same in this fast-paced environment as you would be working across a variety of clients and projects while keeping your team motivated and raring to go!

Required skills:

• Proven experience in designing and delivering high complex, multi-strand projects and meeting deadlines
• A creative mind that can deliver bespoke research solutions
• Experience running combined methodologies
• Ability to inspire those in the team with less experience
• Previous retail, tech/telecoms, FMCG or travel research (desired)
• Experience building strong and commercially successful relationships with key senior level client contacts
• Quantitative research skills

What's in it for you?

You can expect to receive an excellent basic salary, performance-related bonus scheme, private health care, eye-care, pension, interest-free season ticket loan for rail commutes and flexible/remote working (finding the balance between work/home life), 28 days holiday your birthday off, dental scheme, paid-for lunches/snacks and gym discounts. And finally join a Market Research agency that believes in rewarding its staff for their hard work through flexibility, support and progression.

If you would like to know more about the role and the agency, please apply and we can go from there.

Research Director (Qualitative) - £60,000-£70,000,

Flexible working/3 days WFH (post covid)

Are you a Qualitative Research Director or an Associate Director and looking for your next challenge? This role could be ideal.

The agency

They have been established for over twenty years and win all sorts of industry awards but what really sets them apart is the quality and variety of clients that they work with. They are trusted by many of the best-respected names in Retail, FMCG and Leisure to deliver the insight that helps them engage with their audience, grow their brand, and ultimately succeed by giving their customers what they want.

With attractive offices, they are well placed for anyone wishing to move out of London for a better work-life balance. They offer a flexible, collaborative working environment and having been shortlisted for agency of the year in the past they have cemented themselves as one of the most exciting agencies to work for. They look after their employees providing a comprehensive benefits package that means their staff retention rate is high.

What experience will you need?

• A creative mind that can deliver bespoke, fresh research solutions - putting an engaging twist on issues that commonly confront leading brands.
• An experienced researcher with a true passion for qualitative insight
• Proven experience in designing and delivering highly complex, multi-strand projects - and meeting deadlines.
• Hands-on experience in moderating a range of qualitative methodologies.
• Previous retail, FMCG or travel research experience is a bonus - but this role is more about having a passion for, and being in-tune with, current trends and the way consumers think.
• You also need to be confident in leading mixed methodology projects.
• Highly skilled in moderation and facilitation
• The ability to work at pace and juggle multiple projects at any one time.
• Have a passion for writing winning proposals/pitches.
• Commercial acumen with the ability to cross-sell and aid with account growth.
• More than 5 years' experience in an agency environment
• Finally, a real team player who loves the idea of coaching and motivating the rest of the team.

What's in it for you?

Aside from what's already been mentioned above, you can expect the following benefits;

• Flexible working arrangements (Post Covid)
• Competitive starting salary of £60k-£70k plus performance-related bonus scheme
• 28 days holiday plus Bank Holidays and your birthday off
• Contributory pension scheme
• Dental scheme
• Paid lunches & snacks
• Gym discounts
• Interest-free season ticket loan
• Other initiatives such as a buddy scheme, eyecare, childcare vouchers and a generously funded social committee

If you would like to know more about this position, then please click on the link to apply OR reach out directly to Mark Darlington at Stonor Recruitment.