About Mark Darlington

Are you a talented and creative Research Executive or Senior Research Executive that is looking for an opportunity to further your career

Fantastic chance for a driven and enthusiastic Senior Research Executive-Quant to join an independent market research agency right at the top of their game! The agency is nearing the 40 headcount and work for some of the country's foremost and most exciting brands to provide engaging and actionable insights to their clients. 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

What do they do?

They are an independent market research agency that delivers engaging & actionable insight across several sectors. They are currently looking for a Senior Research Executive to join their growing Consumer team. They have 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 RE or SRE who wants the challenge of growing their career
• You've got at least 2-3 years' experience running Quant projects using a range of methods
• Have a natural numerical analytical aptitude
• Great proposal and report writing skills
• Natural curiosity about shopper behaviour & quantitative data
• You have a curious and enquiring mind
• Ideally experience working on projects in the retail and/or consumer sectors
• Expertise in Excel, Powerpoint & ideally knowledge of SPSS

What's in it for you?

You can expect to receive an excellent basic salary which is paying between £27,000 - £35,000, 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. As a business, they are recognised for developing talent and providing a fun, upbeat environment to work in.

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

Here at Stonor we are currently looking for a Programme Manager to join an award-winning client of ours and be a part of a brand-new team as well as responsible for maintaining key client programmes.

This exciting and expanding agency & holds some of the world's top companies as their clients across various industries and specialise in Customer Experience and Insight.

The role

• Maintain excellent relations with client/program contacts to keep the program running smoothly both internally and externally
• Liaising with the client/project team at both a strategic and operational level
• Identifying areas where we can support the brands and markets with insight
• Prioritising and time-managing programs relating to the brands and markets, and their tasks to meet dead-lines
• To co-ordinate the design and production of client re-ports/deliverables including liaison with the IT and/or Analysis team to run calculations, update historical data and run reports.
• Support the whole project management function from start to finish

What they want from you

• Experienced project manager or account manaher with client-facing experience
• Ability to multi-task within band between projects and be flexible according to the needs of the business
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Proven client and project management experience

What's in it for you?

• A basic salary of £25-32K
• 25 days annual leave.
• Flexi-time model (finding the right worklife balance for you)
• Employer contributing pension scheme.
• Private medical health-Bupa.
• Bonus Scheme

If this sounds like the ideal role for you, I would love to hear from you.

Please click to apply and we can go from there.

This expanding customer experience & insight agency are looking for someone who has a true passion for insight to join their marketing sciences team.

The opportunity

The Insight Analyst will work as part of a client facing team and will provide world class insights by creating presentations and reports focused on interrogating customer experience data using a broad insight and analysis toolkit.

• Create presentations and reports focused on insights and stories from data
• Liaise with senior client stakeholders
• Actively participate in Insight and Data Science team meetings to share best practices
• Determine best practice insight/analytical guidelines for the team
• Challenge present practices and implement innovative methods
• Present reports to senior business managers and managing workload/prioritisation

Required skills & experience

• Natural inquisitiveness and desire to tackle new and challenging research questions by working with multiple data sources
• Excellent communicator and ability to find meaningful results from raw data
• Analytical, insight and statistical background
• A self-starter, able to manage their own workload
• Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Knowledge of research methodologies, hands on experience and the use of data analysis software i.e. IBM SPSS is desirable.

What they can do for you

• You can expect to receive an excellent basic salary
• Private health-care, pension and regular nights out/trips away with the company.
• Join a highly qualified, professional and motivated team of bright people in an easily accessible, comfy office.
• Opportunity to work from home
• Be part of an exciting company that will push and support you to move forward in your career and the freedom to express yourself within the role.

If you would like to know more about the role please apply via the link or directly and we can go from there.

This expanding market research & insight agency are looking for someone who has a true passion for insight, data & BI to join their team in Leeds.

The opportunity

The Insight Analyst will work as part of a client facing team and will provide world class insights by creating presentations and reports focused on interrogating customer experience data using a broad insight and analysis toolkit.

• Create presentations and reports focused on insights and stories from data
• Liaise with senior client stakeholders
• Determine best practice insight/analytical guidelines for the team
• Challenge present practices and implement innovative methods
• Marshal large datasets using a variety of functions and formulas
• Adapt to fast-changing client needs
• Explore and find the best ways to build solutions for our processes
• Unpick complex data and spot the insights which will give clients a commercial edge
• Present reports to senior business managers and managing workload/prioritisation

Required skills & experience

• Natural inquisitiveness and desire to tackle new and challenging research questions by working with multiple data sources
• Excellent communicator and ability to find meaningful results from raw data
• Analytical, insight and statistical background
• A self-starter, able to manage their own workload
• Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Knowledge of research methodologies, hands on experience and the use of data analysis software (ideally R, SPSS)

What they can do for you

• You can expect to receive an excellent basic salary
• Private health-care, pension and regular nights out/trips away with the company.
• Paid for lunches (who doesn't like a free lunch)
• 28 days holiday, plus bank holidays and your birthday off
• Join a highly qualified, professional and motivated team of bright people in an easily accessible, comfy office.
• Opportunity to work from home
• Be part of an exciting company that will push and support you to move forward in your career and the freedom to express yourself within the role.

If you would like to know more about the role please apply via the link or directly and we can go from there.

Are you an account handler that is looking for an exciting new challenge in a fast-paced environment? This could be the role for you!

My client is currently looking for an Account Manager to join their ever-growing team that has seen substantial growth over the last 4 years.

What do they do?

They are a specialist international market research & marketing agency that help their clients develop a better understanding of their customers levels of satisfaction through insightful research and evaluation to drive increased profit. The agency works with a large range of clients who are some of the worlds leading retail and consumer brands.

What they would like from you.

• 3-4 years hands on Marketing or Market Research, Customer Satisfaction or customer loyalty experience.
• High degree of numeracy, tenacity and interpersonal skills to deal with several client contacts simultaneously
• Ability to prepare pitch documents
• Understand the current and future challenges facing the client and drive the strategic approach for improvement
• You must demonstrate strong presentation skills at senior management and board level as well as good project management skills, commercial awareness and communication skills.
• Degree educated

What's in it for you?

• You can expect to receive an excellent basic salary
• Opportunity to travel
• Private healthcare, pension and regular nights out/trips away with the company.
• Join a highly qualified, professional and motivated team of bright people in an easily accessible, comfy office.
• Drive process improvements.
• Be part of an exciting company that will push and support you to move forward in your career and the freedom to express yourself within the role.

If you would like to know more about this position, then please click on the link to apply.

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

The Opportunity
This role is ideal for an AD 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.

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

The Opportunity
This role is ideal for an AD 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.

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.

The company is a well established customer experience & insight agency with a well established international client base. They are based in South Bucks and widely regarded as the best at what they do!

What do they do?

They specialise in helping their UK & global clients develop a better understanding of their customers levels of satisfaction through insight, research and marketing.

The opportunity

This is a great chance to join the company at a senior level within the agency and be responsible for developing and managing client projects designed to harvest customer opinion, analyse and create engaging and actionable insight on how to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Required skills:

• Understand the current and future challenges facing clients and drive the strategic approach for improvement
• Ensure all client briefs are interpreted and responded to in a timely and full manor
• Experience implementing new business strategy and fulfil defined tasks in the acquisition and subsequent development of new accounts
• Over 3 years agency experience minimum
• Tenacity and interpersonal skills to deal with a number of client contacts simultaneously
• Strong presentation and communications skills
• Project management skills
• Digital platform and web experience
• Ability to prepare quotations and pitch documents
• Experience working with on-line portals produced for clients
• Automotive background

Whats in it for you?

In return for your hard work and exceptional client handling skills, you can expect to receive an excellent basic salary, a generous bonus scheme, flexible start time, private health care, pension and regular nights out/trips away with the company

This is the chance to join an award-winning market research agency based in Herts, the company has been delivering exceptional Insight and 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 offices in Hertfordshire (Qual specialist). 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.

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

This is the chance to join an award-winning market research agency based in Herts, the company has been delivering exceptional Insight and 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 offices in Hertfordshire (Quant specialist). 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.

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

This expanding customer experience & insight agency are looking for someone who has a true passion for insight to join their marketing sciences team.

The opportunity

The Insight Analyst will work as part of a client facing team and will provide world class insights by creating presentations and reports focused on interrogating customer experience data using a broad insight and analysis toolkit.

• Create presentations and reports focused on insights and stories from data
• Liaise with senior client stakeholders
• Actively participate in Insight and Data Science team meetings to share best practices
• Determine best practice insight/analytical guidelines for the team
• Challenge present practices and implement innovative methods
• Present reports to senior business managers and managing workload/prioritisation

Required skills & experience

• Natural inquisitiveness and desire to tackle new and challenging research questions by working with multiple data sources
• Excellent communicator and ability to find meaningful results from raw data
• Analytical, insight and statistical background
• A self-starter, able to manage their own workload
• Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Knowledge of research methodologies, hands on experience and the use of data analysis software i.e. IBM SPSS is desirable.

What they can do for you

• You can expect to receive an excellent basic salary
• Private health-care, pension and regular nights out/trips away with the company.
• Join a highly qualified, professional and motivated team of bright people in an easily accessible, comfy office.
• Opportunity to work from home
• Be part of an exciting company that will push and support you to move forward in your career and the freedom to express yourself within the role.

If you would like to know more about the role please apply via the link or directly and we can go from there.