Graduate Research Executive – Social Intelligence, Synthesio

Graduate Research Executive – Social Intelligence, Synthesio

Final date to receive applications: 10 June 2026

Department: Graduate

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: London

Compensation: £26,500 / year

Are you driven by data and passionate about insights? We are a leading global market research company, enabling organisations to make smarter, bolder, and faster decisions.

Synthesio is Ipsos's social intelligence business using our proprietary AI-Enabled SaaS platform that collects and analyses social media, news, blogs, forums, reviews, and search data from over 800 million sources worldwide.

We use AI and human expertise to provide insights on brand health, market trends, product intelligence, and more. It helps clients understand consumer conversations, track brand performance, and identify emerging trends.
We work with the UKs largest brands across industries in an unparalleled commercially focused account management and consulting team on social, search and AI visibility intelligence.

You will support and work alongside Account Leads, helping to build trusted relationships with our clients and demonstrate value of our solution through analytical capabilities.

This role will be responsible for delivering impactful insights which powers business decisions for our portfolio of clients. Utilising the power of our market leading AI Enabled SaaS platform Synthesio, you will support and work alongside Account Leads, delivering gold standard for client management and deep consulting to partner with clients year-on-year growth. Your responsibilites will include:

• You will be involved in all aspects of the project life-cycle, including set-up, report template design and insight writing using a mixed method (quant and qual) research approach.
• Work closely with client service managers on platform set-up and account managers on consulting deliverables.
• Develop social data expertise on the Synthesio platform by cleaning mentions using Boolean, classifying social conversation, supporting the design of visualisations.
• Understand the client’s business and reporting needs to create actionable solutions.
• Analysing data and developing insights to support client business cases based on our gold standard frameworks in social and search intelligence
• Complete administrative duties of project management, such as finance and understand your impact on project finances, e.g. knowing how much time is budgeted for different tasks or suggesting efficiencies.
• Aware of and apply BES and good Information Governance
• You will communicate with clients and manage client’s expectations and complete deliverables with guidance and support (when required).

We encourage diversity of thought so we look for candidates who are as diverse as the societies, markets and people we work with. Therefore we are looking for:

• An analytical and problem-solving mindset, focused on not only interpreting data but also understanding the “why” behind insights.
• Effective communication and storytelling skills, the ability to derive actionable insights from data and present them in a clear and engaging way for diverse audiences.
• Commercial awareness and client-focused mindset, with a genuine passion in understanding client needs and delivering impactful, value-driven solutions.
• A curiosity and learning agility that fosters exploration of new ideas and openness to understanding changing trends.
• Creativity and innovation to think outside the box and bring fresh, impactful ideas to life.
• Embraces collaboration and teamwork, working effectively with others and valuing diverse perspectives to build on colleagues' strengths.
• Strong organisational and attention to detail skills, with a commitment to accuracy and integrity in every task.
• A focus on self-awareness and a growth mindset, driven to succeed and make a real impact, with a willingness to reflect, learn, and grow.
• An aptitude for leveraging AI tools and techniques to enhance research and insights, in line with Ipsos' standards and policies.
• Have good time management skills and are able to work across multiple projects or tasks to ensure smooth project delivery and execution.

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