Behavioural Sciences Graduate

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We are committed to diversity & inclusion and providing equal opportunities for everyone. We are dedicated to ensuring our processes are free from any form of discrimination or bias, right from the application process to life as part of the Mediaplus team.

About Behave (Mediaplus Group’s behavioural consultancy)

Behave is a behavioural consultancy that delves into the underlying reasons behind human actions and decision-making. The consultancy combines behavioural science, strategic expertise, and advanced research technology to uncover both conscious and subconscious motivations that shape individual experiences. These insights are then transformed into actionable strategies to achieve the desired change in behaviour.

We are a core part of Mediaplus UK, an independent media planning and buying agency grounded in behavioural science to understand and influence human behaviour to drive exceptional business results.

Understanding how people truly behave and the impact on media strategy is fundamental to business success. By combining behavioural science, strategy, and data & technology, we create media solutions that drive real customer actions and sustainable growth for our clients.

With offices in London, Birmingham, and Manchester made up of 170 communication experts, we are united by a shared commitment to delivering sustainable growth for our clients.

The role:

The Behavioural Sciences Graduate role sits across the Behave Consultancy and the Research Team playing a vital role in the business, realising the company vision of behaviourally led solutions in marketing. The core of the role is to help the consultancy and research teams deliver projects and develop differentiated behaviourally led insights.

Within this role the grad will get to learn and use our unique tools and capabilities. This will include a broad range of areas including using predictive eye tracking results to help optimise creative, broader audience and brand strategy work, and helping develop testing frameworks for messaging.

Our aim is for a candidate to be able to demonstrate an interest in and/or capability to learn:

• Experience with, or knowledge of, conducting qualitative and quantitative research
• How to create insights about audiences/consumers that can be interesting and actionable for clients
• Use behavioural science or an understanding of human behaviour to inform insights and recommendations
• Working with a broad range of clients and topics
• An understanding of or interest in the media/advertising industry

We understand it may not be possible to find a candidate who is fully experienced across all these areas, so we are also interested in a candidate who can show a balance of experience with enthusiasm for our ambitions. We want a candidate who is curious, passionate about understanding people, is eager to learn and develop, and wants to work in a place that is fun, collaborative and fast paced.

What we are looking for (essential criteria):

• Behavioural sciences: an academic and/or work experience in behavioural sciences and its applications
• Research: an academic and/or work experience in conducting quantitative and qualitative research
• Team player: must excel working in team-oriented roles that rely on the ability to collaborate with others
• Marketing/Advertising: experience or interest in applying behavioural sciences within this field
• Curiosity: a high level of curiosity, with a drive to learn our tools and systems, and to continually find better ways of understanding human behaviour
• Data Analysis: comfortable with data manipulation using Excel

What we are looking for (useful criteria):

• Media & Insights Tools: experience using some media and insight tools such as TGI, Touchpoints, ethnographic research tools, social media discourse analysis tools, biometric tools, or others
• Presenting: confidence in presenting with experience of building stories around key actionable insights from research
• Presentations: comfortable using presentation software such as PowerPoint

The benefits…

Pension: Once you’ve been with us for 3 months, you’ll be enrolled into our pension scheme. We’ll match your contributions up to 5%.

Private Medical Insurance and healthcare: When you’ve passed your probation, you’ll have the opportunity to use our private medical insurance, healthcare and life assurance schemes.

Life Assurance: Our life assurance scheme offers 4 times your salary if you die in service whilst at Total Media.

Income protection: Income protection cover for up to 2 years if you should ever be off work with injury or sickness.

Interest free season ticket loan: Travel costs can be eye-wateringly expensive. We can provide you with a season ticket loan once you’ve passed probation.

Holiday entitlement: Our holiday entitlement will be set out in your contract, and once you’ve worked with us for over 12 months, you’ll also get a day off for your birthday, as well as additional wellbeing days off.

Charity/Volunteering entitlement: We think people who volunteer their time for charitable causes deserve a little recognition. We give staff a day off for charitable work and an extra day to be used supporting our partner charity, Young Westminster Foundation.

Referral scheme: Know a fantastic candidate for Total Media Group? We pay a bonus of £1,000 to any eligible member of staff who introduces an applicant employed as a result.

Cycle to work scheme: This is a cost-effective and eco friendly way of travelling into work and making savings on a brand new bike and equipment via a company salary sacrifice scheme.

EV scheme: An opportunity to have access to a fantastic range of electric vehicles via a company salary sacrifice scheme after 2 years service.

Plus…

• Flexible working based on core hours of 10am-4pm, with early finish Fridays.
• 2 wellbeing days and 2 days off at Christmas.
• Agile working including hotdesking and working from home opportunities.
• Industry leading parental schemes and family policies such as enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave policies. It also includes, but is not limited to flexible working arrangements, returning parents coaching and continued tailored support to help you.
• Award winning training, including supporting our people to obtain IPA qualifications.
• Opportunity for a sabbatical after 5 years’ service.
• Walking + social weekend away each year.
• Brilliant Summer and Christmas parties, themed Friday events, and Mindful Monday with events such as massages and yoga.
• We have a dedicated team of in-house Mental Health First Aiders who are on hand to support our people, as well as access to multiple external Mental Health resources.
• Opportunities to get involved in our culture teams which cover DEI, environment, outreach, wellbeing & social.