Graduate Consultant - Employee Experience Research

Graduate Consultant - Employee Experience Research

Final date to receive applications: 19 August 2026

Department: Graduate

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: London

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.

The Consulting team sits at the heart of Ipsos Karian & Box, helping organisations understand what employees think, feel and experience  combine employee research, consulting and listening technology expertise to help world leading organisations drive meaningful change.

• IK & B was founded in 2006 and has been part of Ipsos since October 2001 with the ambition to grow the business globally and take our research solutions to the next level.
• IK & B employs around 90 people, 20 of which in the consulting team. Consultants are supported by analysts, designers, project managers and data scientists.
• We work across sectors including Financial Services, Energy, Retail, Healthcare, Manufacturing and the Public Sector.
• We deliver engagement surveys, pulse surveys, lifecycle listening, culture research and organisational diagnostics.
• We are platform agnostic and partner with a number of leading employee listening platforms including Qualtrics, Viva Glint, Perceptyx and Medallia.

The Consulting team partners with some of the world's leading organisations to understand and improve employee experience. From day one, you'll support live client projects spanning employee engagement, culture, leadership and organisational change.

This is a varied role where you'll support the delivery of employee research programmes for leading organisations.

Your role will include:

• Supporting engagement, pulse and lifecycle listening programmes.
• Helping develop questionnaires, discussion guides and research materials.
• Building strong relationships with clients
• Partnering with analysts to identify key themes, insights and data-led narratives.
• Creating presentations, reports and client-ready outputs.
• Supporting workshops, client meetings and presentations.
• Working with consultants, analysts and project managers to deliver projects successfully.
• Learning how leading organisations use employee listening technology and AI to improve decision-making.
• Contributing to thought leadership and proposition development.

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

• 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, identification of new opportunities for clients and openness to understanding changing trends.
• Ability to develop strong client relationships founded on trust and transparent communication.
• 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.

Desirables:

• Knowledge of psychology and its application in a workplace context.
• An understanding of research techniques and their applications within organisations

Along with…

• The unrestricted right to work in the UK.

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