Project Executive

As a Senior Project Executive at Ipsos, you'll be a crucial part of our mission, ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality research projects. You'll be the linchpin between our research and  delivery teams, ensuring our projects are executed flawlessly. 

Your day-to-day will be a dynamic blend of stakeholder management, client liaison, project oversight and team collaboration, all while championing Ipsos' commitment to quality and innovation. You will manage the delivery process, working in partnership with the researchers and operations teams to plan and manage of your projects. You will support the end-to-end costing process for your project and new business briefs. You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams and contribute to improved process development (both standard and automated protocols) .

In the Creative Excellence team, PMs focus on the large &/or complex programmes – usually £100k+.

This is a Research PM role, not an Operations role.

 This role is offered on a hybrid basis with 3 days in the office and the rest from home.

Your Day to Day

These are the types of things you can expect to be doing during your day to day, although as Ipsos is a dynamic organisation , this may vary as different opportunities arise: 

• Project Management: With support, you will work closely with research and delivery teams to ensure the project is delivered on time and to quality standards. 
• Process improvement: You will be joining a team who are passionate about improving processes and constantly challenging the status quo to find smarter ways of working through innovation in design solutions, automation and remote hub utilisation
• Stakeholder Management: You will work closely with Research team and PM lead to manage the end-to-end project cycle, ensuring clear communication and collaboration 
• Client relationship: You will be client-facing, actively participating in regular meetings and taking a proactive approach to developing knowledge of the client’s business.
• Financial Management: You’ll support the team in managing the financial health of your project – tracking costs, flagging risks, and contributing to financial performance reviews

Essential Criteria:

• Proven quantitative research project management experience in market research.
• Eager to learn and develop a career in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Demonstrated ownership of tasks, delivering high-quality, error-free work.
• Highly organized, able to work under pressure
• Strong attention to detail.
• Proficient in using all Microsoft Office applications. 

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience in market research, managing multi-market tracking studies.
• Experience in Online and Offline methodologies
• Experience partnering with teams in remote locations

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 realise 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 have a hybrid approach to work and ask people to be in the office or with clients for 3 days per week. 

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. 

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Ipsos is one of the world’s largest research companies and currently the only one primarily managed by researchers, ranking as a #1 full-service research organization for four consecutive years. With over 75 different data-driven solutions, and presence in 90 markets, Ipsos brings together research, implementation, methodological, and subject-matter experts from around the world, combining thematic and technical experts to deliver top-quality research and insights. Simply speaking, we help the biggest companies solve some of their biggest problems, serving more than 5000 clients across the globe by providing research, data, and insights on their target markets. And we are proud of our continuous efforts in making Ipsos the best place to work!

The Creative Excellence Service Line helps our clients attain best-in-class advertising that drives business results.  We do this by aiding Creative Development (help with creating advertising), Creative Assessment (help with assessing advertising and providing guidance to improve it) and Creative In-Market (ad tracking once the advertising is launched).