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Qualitative Principle Insight Executive

Location

London

Agency

MediaCom

Type

Permanent

Closing date

April 25th

Overview of job
We are looking for a talented Principle Insight Executive to work within our research team. Real World Insight is an award-winning research and insight team within MediaCom. As a Principle Insight Executive, you will play a key part in our team, supporting senior staff as well as working with planners and clients alike to ensure that their campaigns are grounded in a true understanding of people and what makes them tick.

Reporting of the role
This role reports to the RM

3 best things about the job:

1. Variety – No two days are ever the same – you will be working across a range of different clients, categories and objectives. We encourage the use of innovative techniques and approaches, so you have a real opportunity to try something different and bring some new thinking to our work

2. Accountability – As Principle Insight Executive you are responsible for supporting our research and insight offering and output and mentoring junior team members

3. The people – MediaCom is a brilliant place to work, with a people first culture. You’ll get to work with smart people from across the agency and will be responsible for the helping with the development and careers of some very talented and ambitious researchers.

Measures of success –

In three months, you would have:

Gained an understanding of how the agency operates, how RWI’s work fits in and what role research and insight plays in this
Supported the team both in delivering insightful and impactful research that helps drive our clients’ business

In six months, you would have:

Established yourself as a qualitative researcher in the wider Real World Insight team
Been responsible for running client projects, with senior support
Established relationships with planners and key agency stakeholders as well as key clients

having developed an understanding of our suite of syndicated and bespoke tools

In 12 months, you would have:

Helped with identifying and supporting the wider team on delivering an industry-leading thought leadership project

Responsibilities of the role:

To work closely with and support the wider team on projects from helping to write the proposals, helping with reports to presenting to clients
Running and project managing projects and ensuring that projects are run to timescale and budget and liaising with clients and suppliers
Develop a holistic understanding of MediaCom’s suite of syndicated and bespoke tools
Start developing relationships with suppliers, planners and clients
Mentoring junior team members

What you will need:

At least two years’ experience in qualitative research and the qualitative research process
Have a good working knowledge of qualitative methods
Excellent communication skills – able to present complex ideas in a clear and engaging way
Some knowledge of quantitative research and how qual and quant research work together
Whilst direct experience of media and comms research is not necessary, a passion for media, communication and brands is a must

About MediaCom
MediaCom is “The Content + Connections Agency”, working on behalf of its clients to leverage their brands’ entire system of communications across paid, owned and earned channels to step change their business outcomes.

Employing over 1,200 staff across 5 regional offices, MediaCom is the leading agency in the UK in terms of billings. Its client roster includes British Sky Broadcasting, DFS, The Army, Tesco and Cancer Research UK.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do; we firmly believe in our “People First, Better Results” philosophy and want to be certain that work is always challenging, engaging and satisfying. We aim to ensure that that our employees’ skills are constantly evolving, and so provide all MediaCom staff with training and development and regular appraisals to enhance their performances and guarantee great results for them and the company.

We also strive to change traditional attitudes to workplace culture by offering a more holistic view of employees' aspirations. There are numerous initiatives for MediaCommers to take part in, from the Social Club to Mindfulness Training, to help ensure that our employees thoroughly enjoy their experience here.

We aim to be the only agency that talented people want to work for. We do this, not only by stimulating and challenging our people through great work and outstanding clients, but by providing a variety of learning programs, cultural initiatives and an exciting environment to invigorate our employees personal and professional career development.

MediaCom was named Media Week’s Media Agency of the Year 2018

MediaCom is a member of WPP, the world's largest marketing communications services group, and part of GroupM, WPP’s consolidated media investment management arm.

To find out more about MediaCom visit us here: www.mediacom.co.uk

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