Insight Manager

The Vacancy

Insight Manager – Public Perceptions & Polling Job Type: Permanent (Full Time)

The Vacancy

Insight Manager – Public Perceptions & Polling Job Type: Permanent (Full Time)

Location: London, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow or Manchester

Shape insight. Drive impact. Accelerate your career.

Are you ready to take the next big step in your research career?

Our Public Perceptions team measures public opinion across key policy areas for government departments, regulators, media and political campaign organisations. Using robust quantitative and qualitative methods, we provide impartial, data-driven insight into what the public thinks, why, and how attitudes are changing—helping our clients shape policy, communications and public debate.

This role sits within the Public Perceptions team, one of four practices within BMG. The team’s work spans three broad areas: energy, utilities and the environment; technology, digital experience and online safety; and “People, Place and Power” – polling around elections, local priorities and communities.

The role offers clear opportunities for progression, including the chance to take a lead in one of these areas should you choose to specialise.

You’ll also have the chance to lead and work on our published polling, including our regular voting intention and public opinion polls.

If you’re an ambitious insight professional with a few years of hands‑on experience—and you’re hungry for more responsibility, ownership, and influence—this is the role that will fast‑track your growth.

As an Insight Manager in our Public Perceptions team, you’ll play a central role in shaping the work we do and the recommendations we deliver. You’ll design and lead projects, uncover powerful insights, and help clients make smarter, evidence‑based decisions. This is a chance to build your expertise, lead meaningful work, and make a real impact.

Key Responsibilities

Lead insight projects

• Translate client briefs into robust research designs that genuinely answer their challenges.
• Develop standout questionnaires, discussion guides, frameworks and analysis plans.
• Oversee quantitative and qualitative fieldwork, including interviewer briefings, and run depth interviews, workshops and focus groups.

Deliver high‑impact insight

• Turn complex public opinion data into clear, compelling stories.
• Craft reports that don’t just inform—but inspire action.
• Present findings confidently to clients and stakeholders.

Drive quality + efficiency

• Oversee QA across questionnaires, scripts, data tables, analysis, and outputs.
• Ensure every project is delivered on time, on brief, and to a high standard.

Grow accounts and win new business

• Build strong client relationships and spot opportunities for growth.
• Lead small proposals and contribute to larger pitches.
• Deliver against a new business revenue target of £150,000 (exc. VAT) in a financial year through proposals and pitches you lead.

Support and lead

• Guide and coach junior team members.
• Help shape new ways of working and bring fresh thinking to projects.
• Build future expertise by developing your own specialist area aligned to our business strategy, such as a policy area or sector specialism.

What you’ll bring

You don’t need to know everything—we’ll help you grow—but you will need:

• 3–4+ years’ experience in research, insight, or analytics.
• A keen interest in public opinion and polling.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to turn data into stories.
• Confident communication—written, visual and verbal.
• Great attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy.
• Experience with key tools (Microsoft Office; Power BI, Tableau or similar a bonus).
• Strong time management skills: juggling priorities, timelines and stakeholders.
• Ability to confidently manage clients and lead project teams.
• Curiosity about public attitudes and policy, drive, and a desire to deliver work that truly makes a difference.

Why this role

This is more than a delivery role—it’s a chance to step up.

• Real ownership of projects and client solutions.
• Clear progression and the chance to shape your own expertise.
• High visibility: working directly with senior leaders and major clients.
• A supportive team where your ideas, initiative and ambition are valued.

Salary and Benefits

• Competitive Salary: £35,000-£45,000
• Private Medical Cover
• Life Assurance
• Free fruit
• Monthly Social Events
• Personalised Training Plan

Ready to grow faster and go further

If you’re excited by the mix of public opinion research, client partnership and commercial impact - and you want a career that accelerates your development - we’d love to hear from you.

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About Us

BMG Research is an award‑winning social research and analytics agency operating primarily in the UK. We partner with clients to inform decision‑making, shape policy and guide investment, thereby leading to better public services, positive customer experiences and a fair and equitable society.

By working with clients to understand the challenges they face, we can identify priorities for action and evaluate the impact of change. We combine our in‑depth topic knowledge and methodological expertise with sophisticated analytics and impactful insight to create bespoke solutions tailored to a client’s need. Clients include large government departments, such as Defra, the Department for Business and Trade, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, HMRC, the Home Office and the Department for Education. We also work with government agencies and regulators, local authorities, charities, utility companies and housing associations. Our projects range from small to large, from exploratory research to evaluation and from qualitative to quantitative, including using official statistics. Topics vary and include crime and justice, the media and online harms, health policy, tourism and leisure, customer experience, industrial and trade policy.

Working for BMG Research

Joining BMG Research brings you into a 60‑person team based across Birmingham, London and Glasgow, focused on delivering effective social research and insight. We are committed to flexible working practices with a culture of individual and collective success in a fair and supportive working environment. We operate a hybrid working model with the expectation that staff will be in the office at least 60% of the time. We ensure everyone has a learning and development path and a review and appraisal system to support their careers. We offer fantastic development opportunities to everyone through face‑to‑face, online and on‑demand training and structured development that covers all aspects of technical research skills, management and leadership, communication, health and wellbeing and commercial behaviours. You can also undertake different roles in organisations through secondments in other RSK businesses. Our wider group relationships also provide access to a vast range of employee groups focused on issues such as sustainability, EDI and wellbeing, as well as social activities.

RSK Group

BMG Research is part of the RSK Group, a leading integrated environmental, engineering, and technical services business providing dynamic, multidisciplinary services to a wide range of sectors. RSK was founded in 1989 and has grown considerably since then.

At RSK, we operate as a group of businesses that work together seamlessly, aiming for growth through diversification. Our strategy helps us build a strong and resilient business, capable of weathering external challenges, while also providing greater value to our clients and more opportunities for our employees.

Since the beginning, our philosophy has remained the same: employ, develop and reward talented individuals. People are crucial to our company, and we recognise that our success hinges on our colleagues' growth. We’re committed to preserving RSK's people‑first culture, promoting innovation, and fostering a supportive and caring environment for collaboration. At RSK, we want you to be part of our successes and help you reach your career aspirations. We take pride in offering employees fulfilling and challenging careers by promoting ongoing growth and empowering individuals to excel.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We firmly believe that embracing and celebrating the diversity in our workforce makes us a stronger and more innovative company.

By providing workplace adjustments, we make it easier for people to confidently explore and pursue our career opportunities and recognise that flexibility is key to fostering a dynamic and thriving workplace. Many of our office‑based positions benefit from a flexible working arrangement, allowing our team members to achieve a balance between professional and personal commitments.

We actively encourage applications from candidates of all genders, races, ethnicities, ages, neurotypes, religions or beliefs, sexual orientations, and those with disabilities.

If you’re passionate about making a difference, join us as we work together to build a brighter, more equitable, and sustainable future for all. Do you have what it takes?