Here’s a summary of the role:
Reporting to the sector Head, you will be responsible for servicing and maintaining new and existing clients from a wide range of sectors. You will build key relationships with clients and execute various research projects with support from the wider sector team. This position sits within the Custom Insight department.
Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff):
- Be a research expert (quantitative research, primarily, but experience of qualitative research is also useful) and a go to internal as well as external resource for advice, guidance and knowledge on key sector related issues
- Managing projects from inception to delivery with support from the wider team. This will include but not be limited to:
- Recommending appropriate method of data collection to meet research objectives
- Designing surveys which are tightly focused on our clients’ objectives
- Fieldwork management: monitoring fieldwork for errors or unexpected abnormalities and correcting any problems to ensure the best possible outcome
- Delivering projects to clients, managing de-briefs with senior stakeholders and ensuring data is interpreted correctly by our clients
- Involvement in business development opportunities by presenting the sector’s capabilities both to internal as well as external clients
- Writing proposals and producing costs for a range of different projects (including both qualitative and quantitative methods)
- Dealing with speculative enquiries and to interpret requirements of a research specification
- Working closely with the Survey Management team where necessary
- Becoming acquainted with key issues relevant to our clients and understanding the implications for the research design; develop knowledge of both reputation and business research.
- Conducting research among hard-to-reach audiences, e.g. politicians, business leaders, journalists, NGOs.
These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview:
- Degree qualified in a related subject
- 3 - 5 years’ work-related experience
- Quantitative research skills and experience are necessary, qualitative research skills and experience
- An interest in current affairs, politics, business and related topics
- Excellent track record of hitting personal and team targets
- Excellent client focus and handling skills
- Ability to deliver results, meet deadlines and manage time effectively
- Ability to find creative and innovative solutions for complex and varied problems
- Strong initiative, negotiation and influencing skills
- Excellent written, oral and electronic communication skills
- Being self-motivating and confident
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YouGov is a global online research company, offering insight into what the world thinks.
We speak daily to our panel of over 27 million registered members to understand opinion and behaviors around the world. We have a strong reputation as a source of accurate data and we’re trusted by the world’s biggest brands to get it right, making us the most quoted market research source in the world.
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Join our global team to help us achieve our social mission: to make millions of people’s opinions heard for the benefit of our local, national, and international communities.
Understanding diversity of opinion requires diversity of background. Although our global panel of millions of people worldwide powers our research, our biggest asset is our people. If our research is to be truly representative of what the world thinks, we need people from all walks of life to be part of the team to bring their perspective to the work we do.
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