Senior Research Executive

Agency: Omd Job Function: Strategy and Planning Job Subfunction: Research and Insights Job Description: This is a fantastic opportunity to join the insight team of a leading global media agency with a large and innovative range of research solutions, to get close to client’s business and communication strategy, to work at an international level with multiple markets, to gain exposure to new insights sources and to build experience across different industries.​ Our team makes a very significant contribution to our agency’s income through work delivered to our clients, and we support nearly every new business pitch. We also develop simple but original ways to help our account teams interrogate industry data sets to quickly answer key client questions – enabling our mission of Better Decisions, Faster , improving the standard of work on our accounts and giving our agency and clients a competitive advantage in the marketplace. ​ Balancing all of these competing priorities has become a huge challenge and could hinder our future growth. We need an efficient and pro-active leader to join us and improve our ways of working. We need help to focus in the right places so that we can deliver our commercial targets and also support the wider agency development roadmap. ​ You won’t be intimidated by our jargon or demands from senior stakeholders. You will be able to see the bigger picture. You will make sure that requests for new work are filtered and prioritised based on their commercial or strategic importance, whilst also making sure that we build and nurture relationships with all teams in the agency – even if they are not our current top priority.​ Skills Required: A passion for people and understanding what makes people tick ​ Proven experience writing for thought leadership ​ Proven working knowledge of the quantitative research cycle - questionnaire writing, link checking through to reportwriting. ​ Supporting ad hoc qualitative and quantitative studies – supporting quality and effectiveness across all stages, fromscreener/survey design to helping to debrief. ​ Familiar with syndicated tools from GWI, TGI to SimilarWeb or good experience using social listening tools ​ You will have direct relationships with our clients, for example as you help us to manage the actions from the weeklyclient status meetings. Additional: You will be a curious learner, with great attention to detail and diligence in your work. ​ You need to be creative in the way you solve problems, able to ‘think outside the box’ to find solutions to business challenges. ​ Whatever your previous experiences, we want you to suggest ideas/approaches and alternatives that may create a better solution or spark a new train of thought. ​ You need to be creative in the way you solve problems - think differently ​ You will be articulate and clear in communications and look to explain ideas to clients and colleagues in a way that is easy to understand. ​…