About Mark Darlington

Fantastic chance for a driven and enthusiastic graduate to join a market research agency right at the top of their game! The agency is nearing the 50 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 Research Assistant to join their growing Automotive 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?

• Bachelor's degree qualification
• Strong organisational and project management skills
• Proven knowledge of research methods from either degree work or work experience
• A genuine interest in the Automotive sector
• Proven capabilities in the following key areas; accuracy, attention to detail, teamworking, deadline management, workload management
• Ideally 1 years' experience since graduation
• Have a grasp of qualitative research methods

What's in it for you?

You can expect to receive an excellent basic salary which is paying between £18,000 - £22,000, 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.

Finally, it's an opportunity to be a part of an exciting company that will push and support you to move forward in your career with 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 OR reach of directly to Mark Darlington at Stonor Recruitment

Here at Stonor we are currently looking for a Senior Research Executive 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 RE/SRE and client-facing experience
• Ideally experience in quantitative research
• 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.
• 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 send your CV with a covering letter and we can go from there.

This is the chance to join an award winning Market Research agency based in Leeds, 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 to join them in their offices in Hertfordshire (Both Quant and Qual would be an advantage as well but my client will look at either a quant OR qual specialist). The ideal candidate should have more than 2 year's experience in an agency environment. Not one day 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, WFH, flexi-time, healthcare, dental, pension, 28 days' holiday birthday bank holidays and interest-free season ticket loan on offer for all rail commuters. 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!

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 Research Manager with a passion for Market Research 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 or Quant 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.

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.

Are you a Project Manager/operations specialist within the market research sector?

This exciting and exceptional agency has been growing steadily over the last few years to become a leader in their field. They have worked in the healthcare and pharma space since their inception and have been acclaimed as the best in their field. They're now looking to continue their growth by bringing on board a Project Manager to help service their clients.

About the role

As a Project Manager, you are concerned with the `execution aspect of the project and are expected to handle this with confidence and experience. You will be the go-to person on each project as well as client interaction and managing expectations while delivering high standards.

Main Duties

• Responsibility for the management and control of projects allocated to you, ensuring that the agency achieves and exceeds client expectations.
• Where relevant, responsibility for the training and management of a Junior Project Manager. As well as the delegation of work.
• The Project Manager will ensure, through efficient team management and their own administration, all jobs are carried out within agreed timing schedules and budgets to the level expected by both the client and the agency
• Create new SQL projects, queries and Excel tools which add value and/or streamline data management between client, operations, and Analytics team

About you

• Experience of full-service project management within market research
• Substantial working knowledge of quant led operational projects
• The desire to offer a consultative approach to your work and manage a variety of stakeholders
• A strong interest in broadening your project management/operational experience and developing your career within an innovative organisation

So, what's in it for you? Apart from the chance to work in a big agency, with lots of experience in their field, you'll be given free Healthcare, Pension Plan, Cycle to Work Scheme, Subsidised gym membership & Childcare vouchers. On top of these great benefits, it's paying competitively and will give you all the skills you need to rise up the marketing ranks!

If you're interested, then get in touch, or apply below

Are you a recent graduate who 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 Executive 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:

• Knowledge of Market Research, Marketing or Customer satisfaction
• Customer Service - Knowledge of the principals of customer service and basic theories.
• Sales and Marketing - Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services.
• English Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
• Customer and Personal Service
• 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.
• 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.

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.

Imagine if you could pay a subscription to a CRM system with all of the client contacts and company information already loaded. It would be quite the competitive advantage wouldn't it?

This company offers its clients that level of insight, and a whole lot more.

Set up 12 years ago to provide a user friendly, complete CRM Solution for the food and beverage sector, this company have grown through word of mouth to 20 people made up of data analysts, developers, researchers, account managers and customer support.

They already work with some of the biggest brands in the world and it won't be long before they bring on the majority of the big FMCG businesses, such is the quality of their product, it's a "no brainer".

They exist to help their clients sell more effectively to the ON TRADE and CONVENIENCE sectors. They do this by combining high-quality outlet data with a complete customer and prospect information system in one easy solution.

What's the job?

Given the fact that they keep winning these massive (subscription based) contracts, they need to bring in some new faces to their bright, friendly team. That's where you come in…

You'll likely have worked within the FMCG or On Trade sector in some capacity, ideally as a client services exec/manager or field sales person, perhaps for a field marketing agency.

Useful attributes are:

• Strong commercial acumen
• Excellent account management and negotiation skills
• Initiative, drive and enthusiasm
• Excellent communication skills
• Good planning and organisational skills, able to manage a customer portfolio effectively
• The ability to work calmly under pressure
• Good IT, budget and report writing skills
• Experience of working with a large cloud-based CRM system.

What's in it for you?

This company is growing quickly, and you can be part of their success. You will be given a lot of autonomy and receive excellent training/support on the product

You can expect to receive

• A generous salary of £33,000 - £43,000
• A discretionary bonus
• Flexible working arrangements that you associate with a small business
• 25 days holiday plus Bank holidays and closed over Christmas
• 5% contributory pension
• Plenty of company funded days/nights out.

Please apply now or contact 01844 355797

Do you have the drive and motivation to be part of a team that is responsible for all Data, Insight and Reporting services internally and for an extensive client list?

This is a great opportunity to join a well-established Marketing agency and have a real impact/influence on the business to help continue to grow as a Sales & Marketing agency.

You will play an integral part in providing management information and actionable insights that will drive efficiency within retail across their strong client base. You will also play a key role in building dashboard reporting that can simplify complex data stories and make digestible weekly and monthly reports for management teams.

What they would like from you:

• Strong experience in generating reports for senior managers (2 years minimum)
• Experience building data capture question sets to match client requirements
• The ability to tell data stories and provide actionable insights
• Experience cleansing and manipulating data sets
• Ability to prioritise and manage fast paced and varied requests from key stakeholders
• Highly inquisitive and extremely analytical
• Strong in Powerpoint and Excel
• Basic SQL knowledge would be desirable

What's in it for you?

• Competitive Salary £25,000-£30,000
• 15% performance related bonus
• Benefits
• 20 days holiday
• Pension
• Opportunity to work with gloabl technology companies
• Ongoing career and development opportunities

If this sounds like something you, please apply to find out more about the agency and the role in more detail.

A well-established, data-led independent media and marketing agency is growing its insight team. Ideal role for an experience research executive interested in working in the marketing sector on behalf of top national brands…

The Agency

This impressive London agency is going from strength to strength and is currently the Fastest growing independent media agency in the UK. Renowned specialists at helping valuable start-up and challenger brands, this agency has an exciting mix of clients that also includes some very well-established national names. Executing insight driven, ROI focused campaigns across all paid, traditional and digital media channels, the agency continues to deliver stellar results for small and large clients alike. Based out of exceptional offices in central London, the agency is owned and operated as an employee ownership trust and offers excellent long-term prospects and bonus opportunities for its social and diverse team…

The Role

This agency's campaigns are firmly grounded in data analytics and as such, this is an important role within the business. Reporting directly into a senior insight manager you'll be responsible for interrogating data, transforming it into meaningful insight and supporting with client interaction where necessary. Responsibilities will include:

• Consistent analysis of campaign performance.
• Provide clear and compelling commentary to convey campaign performance and ongoing optimisation recommendations, both in written reports and verbally.
• Support new client set-up including analysis of historical trend data to create bespoke baseline methodology and associated dashboards.
• Work collaboratively with the Insight Manager to deliver bespoke and added-value analysis and insight for internal and external use.

The Opportunity

As one of the fastest growing independent agencies in the UK, it's an exciting team for anyone joining. The agency is highly profitable, boast an excellent reputation and work with some top national brands. The team are welcoming, the offices in a top central London location and the opportunities for further progression are strong.
 

This expanding customer experience & market research agency are looking for an Insight Analyst to join their marketing sciences team to provide world class customer insight to their global client list.

The Opportunity

This is the chance to join a market research agency and be responsible for providing analytic, reporting and actionable insight support for all of the agencies clients but primarily in the automotive sector. This position reports to the Marketing Sciences Manager and primarily works with other marketing scientists but will be an integral part of larger teams including Project Managers, Project Directors as well as IT Professionals.

• Collaborate with team members & internal clients to understand new requirements, design, develop and execute appropriate monthly/quarterly reports/dashboards
• Automate standard repetitive data analysis and reporting tasks
• Retrieve data from internal systems, clean aggregate data for reporting
• Conduct ad-hoc data analysis & able to interpret reports to provide insight.

Required skills & experience

• A good degree in a computing/numerical field
• 2 years experience in data manipulation, designing dashboards and automating their product
• Proficiency with Excel and the Microsoft office suite of tools
• SQL experience
• Knowledge of Excel PowerPivot & Power Query
• MS Access Experience

Nice to have

• Knowledge of R programming
• Knowledge of Text Analytics

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.