Senior Project Executive - Creative Excellence

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Job Description

Role overview

You will manage the delivery from quoting stage through to the final project deliverables, helping ensure that projects run efficiently, to specification and to budget. You'll be joining a team who are passionate about improving processes and have a creative way of constantly challenging the status quo to find smarter ways of working.

What will I be doing?

As an enthusiastic PM, who thrives on challenging, improving and ensuring seamless deliver you will be responsible for:

• Contributing to client briefing meetings and be the trusted point of contact for clients on project-related matters
• Preparing project budgets and costings, and advise on assumptions made and ways of working
• Creating and managing project plans / schedules, organise the research team and manage inputs into the operational process
• Managing operational delivery, from scripting and translation, to fieldwork, data processing and data checking
• Taking pride in delivering on time, on budget, and within scope, leading on medium scale projects and contributing to larger accounts
• Effectively identifying and pre-empting challenges and problems that might affect the successful execution of a project
• Managing the Statement of Work, ensuring delivery to agreed specification
• Overseeing the financial performance of projects, tracking and managing external costs, internal time and profitability
• Actively seeking new opportunities to develop yourself and continue learning
• Sharing project learnings (successes and improvements) across the wider team, celebrate your success.

Ipsos UK offers a hybrid working environment, 3 days in the office and working the rest from home.

What do I need to bring with me?

• Proven quantitative or qualitative research project management experience
• We are looking for someone with experience in market research who isn't afraid to challenge and question current processes to become an invaluable part of our team
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong organisational skills - demonstrate flexibility, with proven ability to prioritise tasks in order to achieve project, team and business requirements
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Be dedicated, taking ownership of tasks and delivering as promised to the best of his or her ability, including being error free
• Ability to disseminate complex information.
• Confidence with managing budgets and finances
• Be a positive thinker with a can do, solution-focused attitude
• Good team player
• Proficient in using all Microsoft Office applications
• Enthusiasm for the role, team and life in general

What is in it for me?

Ipsos UK offer an attractive basic salary and a rewards package including 25 days annual leave, a pension scheme and a great range of flexible benefits to suit your personal needs. For roles at Research Manager level and above we also offer private healthcare.

In addition to this we have a fantastic Learning & Development offer delivered through a mix of face to face, online or on-demand; you can read more by clicking here.

We realise you may have commitments outside of work and will consider flexible working applications - please highlight what you are looking for when you make your application.

Ipsos is committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views. We also 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 Us

Ipsos is one of the world's largest research companies and currently the only one primarily managed by researchers, ranking as a #1 full-service research organization for four consecutive years. With over 75 different data-driven solutions, and presence in 90 markets, Ipsos brings together research, implementation, methodological, and subject-matter experts from around the world, combining thematic and technical experts to deliver top-quality research and insights. Simply speaking, we help the biggest companies solve some of their biggest problems, serving more than 5000 clients across the globe by providing research, data, and insights on their target markets. And we're proud to share we've received our Great Place to Work Certification in 2022 & 2023!

About the Team

The Creative Excellence Service Line helps our clients attain best-in-class advertising that drives business results. We do this by aiding Creative Development (help with creating advertising), Creative Assessment (help with assessing advertising and providing guidance to improve it) and Creative In-Market (ad tracking once the advertising is launched).