Junior Research Executive
Coleman Parkes – Junior Research Executive
£21-24K depending on experience
Full-time role – hours 9-5.30pm – Permanently working from home – UK based
Company Background
Coleman Parkes Research is a highly respected bespoke research specialist focussing primarily on B2B quantitative and qualitative research with first-rate experience across all verticals and global markets. We have delighted clients for over 20 years completing over three thousand research projects to date which has underpinned continuous and controlled growth. We uncover insights for clients across the globe, with 85% of our studies focused on two or more geographic markets. Our in-house team of experts ensure all clients’ research projects are designed and structured to not only gather the right data but also generate prized insights that question the 'so what?' and drive effective business growth. We are a small, friendly and successful team, who offer great support to their staff and clients.
Our clients
We work with the brightest minds in the marketing/PR community globally based in communication agencies, top management consultancies and blue-chip companies. Most of our surveys explore new and emerging technology trends and how these trends impact the business world. The insights we uncover from our primary data collection support our clients in their marketing campaign planning and/or directly feed into their thought leadership reports or other outreach material e.g., press releases, infographics, maturity indexes, LinkedIn posts, webinars and more. See our website for report examples: https://colemanparkes.com/#whitepapers
The role
We are currently seeking a candidate who wants to start a career in B2B market research (either a graduate or postgraduate). Your core role will be to provide support for charting/data visualisation across the team. You will also support on a variety of other research activities (see duties below) and gradually take on more responsibility as you become more experienced. It is essential that you have a good proficiency of MS Excel, PowerPoint, and Word but we can provide on the job training for those areas in which you need more experience – you just need to have an appetite to learn new skills. As we are a small company there are lots of opportunities to learn on the job and be involved in a variety of areas across the business. In terms of the type of person that would suit the role - you will be positive, self-motivated, enjoy both working independently and as part of a team, have excellent communication skills, someone who goes the extra mile and of course has a keen interest in research and the business world.
We are a remote working company, so the role is permanently home based, but we do meet in London for team meetings (we will recommence when the timing is right and safe).
Key skills:
- Good proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word/Excel/PowerPoint)
- Ability to create graphs/charts from Excel data
- Desire to work in Market Research
- Keen interest in the business world
- Self-discipline/self-motivation to work remotely
- Strong communication skills and an eye for detail
- Reliable/trustworthy
- Proactive/resourceful when working of projects/with the team
- Good organisational skills - ability to manage/prioritise workloads
It would be an advantage to have language skills and also experience of data visualisation (using apps such as displayr), producing data tabulations, MR stats etc
Duties initially to include:
- Charting of excel data into PowerPoint/data visualisation
- Excel data checking
- Formatting questionnaires (from a basic word version into a template ready to be converted/scripted to an online questionnaire)
- Questionnaire link checking (when a formatted questionnaire is converted to an online version for respondents to complete this needs to be checked)
- Proof reading/data checking of PowerPoint charts
- Proof reading/data checking reports
- Quantitative/Qualitative fieldwork management
- Support/organise qualitative recruitment
There will be additional duties added as the role develops and you will start to get on the job experience of working in market research. There are also opportunities to get both internal and external training such as MRS course.
Access to London and based on the UK as we will have in person meetings in London once every two/three months.
Benefits
· Laptop/phone will be provided
· Annual bonus based on company and personal performance - discretionary
· Company Life insurance 4x salary
· Optional company pension 3% of salary
· Optional private Healthcare
· 25 days holiday