Research Manager

• Job type: Permanent, full-time (37.5 hours a week).
• Reporting to: Head of Research.
• Salary and package: £40,000 to £45,000 depending on experience, plus a strong benefits package.
• Location: London Bridge (SE1), hybrid, three days a week in the office and two from home.
• Closing date: 30 September 2026, though we may speak to strong candidates as applications arrive.

Kids Industries (KI) is The Family Fandom Agency. For more than twenty years we've focused on one audience, the family, with one team bringing Insight, Strategy and Creative together under one roof. This focus means our clients get deeper knowledge, faster answers and none of the generalist guesswork.

We take our clients into the world of their audience, connecting real consumer truths to their market realities; then we turn that understanding into products, experiences and brands that children and parents love.

We create award-winning work and have a good time doing it, taking the work but not ourselves too seriously.

This role is for someone who enjoys the craft of research: designing thoughtful studies, moderating skilfully, getting up close to the evidence and turning it into stories that help clients make better decisions. You’ll own projects from brief to debrief, with the support of the Senior Team along the way. You’ll manage day-to-day client relationships and collaborate closely with colleagues across the Insight, Strategy and Creative teams - pulling everything together to deliver first-class work.

One week you might moderate children for a global entertainment brand; the next, analyse an international survey or help a food, gaming or travel client turn audience understanding into a new proposition. The common thread is research that must be rigorous, imaginative, and commercially useful. With the spectrum of projects we undertake, there is plenty of room to grow into more complex work and toward more senior roles within the agency.

• Own and deliver research projects autonomously, from design and materials through to delivery, keeping quality, timing and budget on track across more than one project at a time.
• Translate client questions into the right methodology, and build strong screeners, discussion guides, stimulus and surveys.
• Moderate across formats such as focus groups, depth interviews, online communities, or global field surveys, adapting for everyone from a five-year-old to a group of grandparents.
• Lead analysis and reporting, turning qualitative and quantitative evidence into accurate, actionable stories, working with Strategy and Creative to connect insight to the wider commercial challenge.
• Be a trusted day-to-day client contact, and brief and manage research partners and suppliers, including on international and multi-market projects.
• Delegate meaningfully to junior colleagues and help them develop, and contribute to proposals and new business as you build your commercial judgement.
• Explore new methods and sensible AI-assisted ways of working, using AI to create efficiencies and free up time for deeper thinking, never to replace your own judgement.

Our ideal is someone comfortable across both qualitative and quantitative research who can choose the right approach for a brief. That said, if your strength sits firmly on one side, that’s great too. A brilliant qualie or a brilliant quantie is just as welcome, so please don't hold back from applying.

• Solid market research experience owning projects end to end, whether as a newly appointed Research Manager or a Senior Research Executive ready to step up.
• A strong understanding of both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, with real expertise in at least one and…