Project Executive-Qualitative Team

Make Your Mark at Ipsos

Are you an organised, proactive project management professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment? Do you enjoy bringing research projects to life, managing multiple stakeholders, and ensuring exceptional delivery? If you're looking for an opportunity to work on high-profile qualitative research projects with global reach, we'd love to hear from you.

About the Role

Ipsos Understanding Unlimited (UU) is the qualitative research arm of Ipsos, delivering rich consumer insight through methodologies including focus groups, online communities, ethnography, immersive research and long-term community panels. Working with clients across sectors such as FMCG, finance and automotive, the team helps organisations better understand consumer behaviour, motivations and culture.

As a Project Executive, you'll play a vital role in the successful delivery of qualitative research projects, supporting researchers to ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget and to the highest quality standards. You'll manage a diverse portfolio of UK and international studies, ranging from traditional face-to-face research to cutting-edge digital methodologies.

Working within a collaborative and supportive team, you'll take ownership of project planning, supplier management, budgeting, scheduling and operational delivery. You'll also have the opportunity to contribute to research design, learn from experienced researchers, and develop a strong understanding of the end-to-end research process.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to build a long-term career in market research project management while working on impactful projects for leading global brands.

About You

Essential Skills

• Experience in qualitative project management or a related field (e.g. market research recruitment)
• Knowledge of the market research project lifecycle
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent organisational and time management abilities
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality
• Confidence managing budgets, costings and project logistics
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
• Proficiency in AI use and adoption to enhance day-to-day tasks and efficiency

Desirable Skills

• Experience supporting client-facing research projects
• Ability to advise on research implementation and project execution
• Experience managing supplier relationships
• Interest in qualitative methodologies and community-based research
• Desire to build long-term client relationships

Behaviours

• Curiosity and a passion for learning
• Resilience, flexibility and agility
• Empathy and active listening
• Strong collaboration and teamwork
• Accountability and ownership
• Positive, solution-focused thinking
• Creative problem-solving
• Motivation and self-awareness

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 of health & wellbeing, financial benefits and professional development opportunities.

We have a hybrid approach to work and ask people to be in the office or with clients for 3 days per week. We appreciate 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 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, as a more diverse workforce enables 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 Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and 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.

Ready to have an impact? Apply now!

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 Ipsos Understanding Unlimited service line uses Qualitative techniques to humanize data and bring cultural intelligence into our clients’ thinking. We bring ‘life to life’, through listening, observing and illuminating human interactions. Ipsos UU is the largest qualitative research company in the world. IUU has a community of 1300 specialists with diverse backgrounds and skill sets (e.g. ethnographers, community managers, semioticians) who understand people better than anyone else, simply because we have done more research for more clients in more countries than anyone else. With us, clients are fluent in 88 cultures.