Senior Project Manager-Brand Health Tracking

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Job Description

Role overview

What will I be doing?

As an experienced and enthusiastic Senior Project Manager, who thrives on challenging, improving and ensuring seamless delivery, you will be responsible for:

• Contributing to client briefing meetings and being the trusted point of contact for clients on all project-related matters
• Designing & preparing project budgets and costings, and advise on project process / structure design for proposals
• Ensuring your projects are planned effectively and delivered on time, on budget, and within scope
• Effectively identify and pre-empt challenges and problems that might affect the successful execution of a project
• Advising on research inputs (questionnaire, brand lists, stimulus) as well as different sampling approaches and weighting effectively - suggesting amends, improvements, and ensuring suitability from an operational/respondent perspective
• Advising on alternatives & solutions when needed
• Supporting and coaching line reports & project team members to deliver multiple projects on time, budget and within scope
• Identifying needs for further training and helping us to develop required training initiatives

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
• Strong organisational skills - demonstrate flexibility, with proven ability to juggle multiple tasks in order to achieve team and business requirements
• Be dedicated, taking ownership of tasks and delivering as promised to the best of his or her ability, including being error free
• Confidence with managing budgets and finances
• Be a positive thinker with a can do, solution-focused attitude

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 Brand Health Tracking Service Line helps clients manage their in-market brands in terms of monitoring health and making sure they are on the right course. Clients have their own sales data, we provide them with brand affinity data to understand how people feel about the brand and its competitors longitudinally.