At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage and coordinate exciting client insight projects while collaborating with a dynamic team.
- Company: Join Beano Brain, a leading insights agency for kids and families, part of DC Thomson.
- Benefits: Enjoy a hybrid work model, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Be part of a supportive, non-hierarchical team that values your voice and ideas.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by delivering thought-provoking insights that shape the future of youth culture.
- Qualifications: Experience in quantitative research and strong analytical skills are essential.
Job Title: Senior Quantitative Insight Executive / Senior research Executive (SRE)
Location: London, UK(Hybrid; 2 days in the office per week)
Beano Brain, a leading kid, youth and family insights agency,is hiring foran experiencedSenior Commercial Insight Executivefrom a quantitative research backgroundto join the teamin our London office on FleetStreet.Beano Brain is part of theDCThomsonmedia and publishing company.
Beano Brain is a team of collaborators who balance being supportive and transparent with rebel thinking. While fostering a non-hierarchical environment where team members take initiative andaren’tafraid to challenge each other’s thinking, Beano Brain gives everyone on the team a voice.
This an opportunityfora senior research executive who is looking to own client relationships and smaller projectswhile working alongside a content team.The successful candidate will have opportunities to contribute to thought leadership and brainstorming the nextbig thing.
No two days are the same at Beano Brain! TheSenior Commercial Insight Executivewillsupport the senior Beano Brain insight team on delivering thought provoking and business transforming insight work for larger clients / global projects.
Key responsibilities include:
Fieldwork management
To manage and co-ordinate client insight projects, working closely with the wider team:
- liaising with sample and survey scripting partners in the UK and globally
- including cost collation, helping prepare research proposals, project set up, local partner/ supplier management
- briefing external suppliers
- monitoring survey progress
Bespoke Quantitative research projects
- You will take part in client meetings and be part of the briefing and proposal process
- You will feed into the design of insight projects, with guidance from line manager
- Including drafting discrete parts of client proposals
- You will support in the preparation, management and carrying out of quality ad hoc research, from initiation to completion
- Including drafting questionnaires, checking survey links, updating clients on progress, creating data tables
- You will help to draft insightful, persuasive and action inspiring presentations, working closely with the senior project team
- You will provide support in analysis and writing debriefs, both single & multi market, creating persuasive and action inspiring presentations
- You will help present insights to Beano Brain clients with support from the senior team
Quantitative research to support Beano Brain’s Thought Leadership
You willcreate,collate, review, report and catalogue regular research questionsandsurveys that Beano Brain runs to support our thought leadership driven growth strategy, ensuringquestions are designed to bechild-appropriate.
- You willprepare, present and support on quantitative findings and recommendations toBeano Studiosand commercial clients alike
- You willwork closely with theBeanoBrain team to support the Digital,theContentandtheConsumer Product teams with current, relevantquantitativelyderivedinsights.
KNOWLEDGE, QUALIFICATIONS,SKILLSAND EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Demonstrable experience on segmentation projects
- Previoususe or exposure to Conjoint,MaxDiffor similaranalysis software
- Experience of using statistical analysis software,such as SPSS, orideally Q orDisplayRis preferred (
- Data analytics - Applies analytical methods to interpret quantitative research data,identifypatterns and produce evidence that supports client and business decisions. Uses judgement to test findings, understand limitations and turn data into meaningful insight.
- Market research - Plans and supports market research activity, including questionnaire development, fieldwork management, suppliercoordinationand reporting. Applies research methods that areappropriate forkids, teens, families, clientobjectivesand commercial use.
- Project management - Manages defined research projects and workstreams from set-up to completion. Plans activity, tracks progress, coordinates suppliers, manages risks and keeps stakeholders informed so that work is delivered to agreed standards.
- Stakeholder relationship management - Builds effective working relationships with clients, suppliers, senior insightcolleaguesand internal teams. Communicates clearly, manages expectations, supports clientconfidenceand escalates issues before they affect delivery or trust.
- Data visualisation - Presents data and findings in a clear,accessibleand audience-appropriate way. Supports the creation of client debriefs, charts, tables and visual evidence that help stakeholders understand the story in the data.
- Artificial intelligence and data ethics - Uses approved AI and data-enabled tools responsible. Understands the importance of data confidentiality, ethical research practice, accuracy, biascheckingand human review when using AI or automation to support insight work.
- Strategic planning - Contributes insight, evidence and analysis that support client and business planning. Helps connect research findings to commercial priorities, audience needs and future opportunities for Beano Brain and its clients.
Desired
- Educated to degree level (preferable but not essential)
- Experience working with kids and teens
- Expertisein specific area of youth culture and/ or families
- Experience working on multi-market projects, especially the US
- Experience working on mixed quant/ qual projectsaimed at childrenand / oryouth
Behaviours that will help this role succeed:
- Being More Curious
- Seeksto understand what is really driving the data, not only what appears on the surface.
- Shows active interest in kids, teens, families, youth culture,brandsand changing audience behaviour.
- Experiment with Purpose
- Tests better ways to gather, analyse,visualiseand share insight.
- Uses approved tools,automationand AI-supported methods where they improve quality,speedor consistency.
- Triesnew approacheswith clear purpose, qualitychecksand senior oversight.
- Learns from each project and applies that learning to improve future research delivery.
- Owning the Outcomes
- Takes responsibility for the quality,accuracyand timeliness of assigned work.
- Follows through on project actions, supplierupdatesand stakeholder commitments.
- Escalates risks early and brings options, not only problems.
- Focuses on the decision the insight needs to support, not just the completion of tasks.
- Being More Collaborative
- Works openly with quantitative, qualitative, commercial and portfolio colleagues.
- Shares insight, templates,learningand better ways of working across the team.
- Builds trust with suppliers and clients through clear communication and reliable delivery.
- Contributes to a high-performance culture by making others’ work easier,strongerand more connected.
Closing date for applications:
25th August at 12:00noon
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