Research Executive-Long term communities; Qual

Are you passionate about understanding people and behaviour? Do you enjoy combining qualitative and quantitative insights to solve complex business challenges? Are you looking for a role where you'll work closely with clients, build expertise in long-term communities, and help shape meaningful decisions? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

Are you passionate about understanding people and behaviour? Do you enjoy combining qualitative and quantitative insights to solve complex business challenges? Are you looking for a role where you'll work closely with clients, build expertise in long-term communities, and help shape meaningful decisions? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

Ipsos Understanding Unlimited (UU) is the qualitative research arm of Ipsos, specialising in qualitative research, online communities, ethnography, workshops and long-term community panels. As a Research Executive within our Long-Term Communities team, you will play a key role in delivering engaging, insight-led research programmes for a range of clients.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop expertise across both qualitative and quantitative methodologies while working on long-term communities that uncover deep consumer motivations and behaviours. You will support the delivery of research projects from start to finish, including community engagement, project management, questionnaire and discussion guide development, data analysis, reporting and client communications.

You’ll work within a collaborative, highly experienced team, gaining exposure to diverse client challenges and helping clients maximise member engagement and community value. Alongside developing core research and project management skills, you will become familiar with Ipsos’ AI-powered research solutions and learn how to combine human expertise with technology to generate richer insights.

This role offers a clear development pathway, varied project exposure, and the opportunity to build a rewarding career within one of the world’s leading research organisations.

• Strong academic background, ideally in Market Research, Social Sciences, or Business.
• Passionate about both quantitative and qualitative research, eager to learn and grow across a range of methodologies.
• Understanding of client objectives with demonstrated communication with clients.
• Proven awareness of your impact on project finances.
• Experience in developing client-relevant materials such as questionnaires, discussion guides, reports and proposals.
• Proficient in checking and drafting materials like scripts, tables, code frames, and reports.
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, and able to juggle the needs and responsibilities of multiple projects in parallel

• An understanding of quantitative research with current experience or a desire to build core craft skills
• Experience of running long-term communities (particularly for qual insights)
• Experience of presenting to clients
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Exceptional organisational and time management skills.
• Familiarity with AI-powered research tools and how to leverage them for data analysis, trend prediction, and automation.

• Curiosity and a passion for learning.
• Collaboration and teamwork.
• Client focus.
• Accountability and ownership.
• Adaptability and resilience.
• Innovative thinking.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Proactive problem-solving.
• Commitment to delivering impact.

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…