Graduate Research Executive – Corporate Reputation

Application Deadline

May 08, 2024

Department

Graduate

Employment Type

Full Time

Location

London

Workplace type

Onsite

Compensation

£25,000 / year

The Corporate Reputation team work with the world’s largest multi-national companies to shape and underpin their reputation management and communication decisions. What drives people’s trust (or lack thereof) in a company or brand? What are opinions on key issues in the tech sector, for oil & gas majors, or for FMCG companies? Which communications and messages will help maintain an organisation’s reputation? These are all questions we help answer for our clients.

Working with leading tech, pharmaceutical, infrastructure and finance companies, we enable our clients to understand perceptions among stakeholders to help them build trust, our key metric. We support them by:

• Gathering baseline levels of awareness of their brands, strategies and aims;
• Understanding the context in which they operate through wider Ipsos data;
• Assessing impact of their communications and partnerships;
• Advising them how best to build trust.

Our experts provide mixed-method research using engaging new digital tools and harnessing AI, as well as advanced modelling techniques. Our job is to be confident and challenging; using our knowledge of the sector and wider data sources to interrogate our primary research and advise our clients to help them navigate what can be tricky regulatory environments.

The Role

As a Graduate Research Executive, you’ll be encouraged to take responsibility from the outset - thrown straight into working on live projects. You will have a real impact on client business decisions, working with data to create insight led findings and storytelling the opportunities that exist.

You will learn about the true impact of our research and how it influences our clients, appreciating their commercial imperatives and organisational challenges. Supported by your manager & team, you will: 

• Develop your research knowledge and methodologies including use of Generative AI
• Develop skills covering all aspects of corporate reputation and communications
• Be part of a team designing and delivering research projects from inception to delivery
• Be involved: from checking data files and tables, to analysing open ended response to frame rich stakeholder insights
• Get the opportunity to work across a variety of clients and sectors for broad exposure to this exciting area
• Quality check key deliverables, ensuring they are delivered accurately and to the highest standards
• Prepare, plan, prioritise and communicate effectively to ensure deliverables are sent to schedule
• Help us think about how we can deliver our conclusions and recommendations in an engaging and meaningful way

About You

• A natural curiosity about the world we live in, including political and business contexts
• A passion for topical issues, with an openness and motivation to get stuck in to understanding what builds trust in corporations across a wide range of sectors (from pharmaceutical to financial services, tobacco to tech)
• A drive to not just deliver facts (the what), but to question and interpret those facts into the “so what” and the “now what”
• The ability to work creatively and think commercially
• Thrive in a team environment working collaboratively with colleagues to delight clients
• Strong attention to detail and a deep interest in analysing and exploring data
• Strong interpersonal skills – the ability to communicate clearly and persuasively working with many people and cultures
• Great organisational skills and the ability to manage projects efficiently and effectively, utilising MS tools

Along with ….

• The unrestricted right to work in the UK

Our Offer

Our Generation Ipsos programme provides a comprehensive foundation in research and how it’s practically applied in a commercial environment. You’ll be trained in client management, project and operational management, equipping you to partner with researchers, Project Management colleagues and other teams to deliver excellence for our clients, . You’ll learn through real  life, hands-on experience, webinars, seminars and  specialist workshops.

We’ll provide you with dedicated training designed to achieve the industry recognised Market Research Society (MRS) Advanced Certificate accreditation. Networking is a key skill, so we have Early Careers events with other Graduates, Placement Students, and Interns across the company.

Having a flexible working culture where we support our colleagues and celebrate our successes is important to us. We invest our time in you and you’ll benefit from working alongside our expert teams. 

Your manager will help you set goals to achieve your personal objectives throughout the year and help you exceed these.

And the fun stuff …

• 25 days’ holiday which increases over time to 30 days, plus an extra day for your birthday
• Annual summer and All Staff events
• Team socials, including Christmas parties
• Season ticket loan
• Future talent loan - an optional and interest-free loan of up to £1000 to help with any unexpected costs, so you can focus on having a great start to your career
• A huge variety of benefits e.g. pension contributions, income protection, winter flu jabs, eye care vouchers, online and high street discounts
• Opportunity to participate in and benefit from participation in our multiple Diversity and Inclusion Belong groups, which bring together people with shared identities and interests to ensure that their voices are heard through the company and that Ipsos can continue to carry out research that is most representative of the UK and wider world today.

Those who are successful at the application stage will be progressed to a virtual interview. The final stage will be an assessment centre held at our Thomas Moore Square Office in June.

We are committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views. We recognise that this is important for our business success - a more diverse workforce will enable us to better reflect and understand the world we research and ultimately deliver better research and insight to our clients.

About Ipsos

Global leader in market research, Ipsos delivers reliable information and true understanding of Society, Markets and People. Our solutions use data from surveys, polls, social media or qualitative, and provide actionable insights into the experience and opinions of citizens, consumers, patients, customers, employees.