Project Executive

Research Partnership; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading market research agency in London is seeking a Project Executive to join its early careers programme. The role involves managing fieldwork and data collection for pharmaceutical clients, requiring strong project management skills and a collaborative approach. Candidates should possess a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. This position offers a hybrid working model with comprehensive training and development opportunities.

Benefits

Company pension contributions

25 days annual holiday entitlement

Private health insurance

Life Assurance plan

Qualifications

• Demonstrate strong capabilities in core project management functions.
• Able to multi-task effectively while maintaining focus on each task.
• Good communication skills both verbally and in writing.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the setup and management of fieldwork and data collection.
• Sourcing and negotiating with external suppliers.
• Coordination of client and supplier Statements of Work.

Skills

Organization

Communication

Problem-solving

Numerical skills

Interpersonal skills

Proactivity

Creativity

Education

Bachelors degree (or relevant professional experience)

Job description

Title: Project Executive

Job Type: Full-time

Tenure: Permanent

Location: London UK

Education: Bachelors degree (or relevant professional experience)

Salary: 30000 per annum

Job Overview

About us:

We invite you to come grow with us.

Research Partnership (part of Inizio Advisory) is one of the worlds largest pharma market research and consulting agencies with over 250 researchers consultants project managers and support staff. Our teams are located across the globe in Europe (London Lyon) North America (New York Philadelphia San Francisco) and Asia (Singapore Delhi).

As individuals with diverse backgrounds as a team with shared values as professionals ready to reimagine health and life sciences you can grow with us at a place that:

• Makes a difference to human health
• Shares values and celebrates progress
• Puts people at the centre of everything

We are looking for bright inquisitive graduates or early career professionals who are committed to pursuing a career in project management within international pharmaceutical market research and consultancy.

We are recruiting Project Executives to join our early careers programme in our Operations team specialising in quantitative market research projects.

The RP Operations team works alongside our Custom and Syndicated research teams to deliver a broad range of qualitative and quantitative (ad hoc and tracking) studies for global pharmaceutical, MedTech and biotech clients to enable them to address product development, marketing, brand advertising and communications objectives. Our studies are typically multi‑market encompassing respondents in Europe, North America and Emerging Markets.

Within this role you will be empowered to develop your project management expertise across the healthcare market research landscape and will have the opportunity to work with a wide range of different experts in our teams.

Responsibilities

Your primary role:

The role of the Project Executive is to cost and oversee the set up and management of fieldwork and data collection to ensure successful completion within best practices. You will also be expected to contribute to company operations processes; providing proactive ideas and plans about improving the efficiency of the project management function and projects. Core but not exclusive responsibilities will include:

• Responsibility for sourcing, obtaining and negotiating commercially advantageous costs from external suppliers and panel providers for Research Partnership project proposals
• Updating suppliers on the status of their quotes
• Overseeing the smooth running of fieldwork management
• Successful handover of project deliverables to research team
• Coordination of Data Processing (DP) work and deliverables based on specs and templates provided by the project team (Quantitative-only)
• Coordination of Qualitative deliverables including: Transcripts and/or recordings (notes, videos, audio files) (Qualitative-only)
• Own coordinate and update project timelines with internal research, external client and supplier stakeholders
• Take ownership for coordinating project team meetings
• Responsibility for Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Event reporting
• Coordination of client and supplier Statements of Work (SOWs)
• Client and supplier invoice management (PO numbers, invoicing and liaison with Finance team)

Qualifications & Experience

About You

Your skills and experience:

• You demonstrate strong capabilities in core project management competencies: Organisation and ability to multi‑task effectively
• Communication
• Prioritisation
• Problem‑solving
• You are numerate with a high degree of accuracy including financial and budget literacy
• You have good interpersonal skills and can communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
• You are proactive with a can‑do attitude; able to identify issues and generate solutions
• You have excellent organisational skills and are able to multi‑task whilst maintaining a high level of focus on each task
• You are creative and like seeking out novel solutions to client problems
• You have or are predicted to have a 2.1 or 1st class honours degree (or equivalent) OR you have 2 years of experience in a relevant field (e.g. project management, data analysis or research fieldwork)
• Ideally you have a degree in the sciences, management, social sciences, mathematics or modern languages but we are open to degrees from any background. Degree programmes with a quantitative element are particularly of interest.

We will be recruiting these positions over the course of September and October 2025 with a start date in November 2025.

Hybrid Working Model

This role will primarily be based in our offices in Putney London and candidates must be able to work from our offices for a minimum of 2 days per week (occasionally more for training team meetings etc.).

During the first 3 weeks of the role there will be a full training programme conducted in‑person at our London offices. All applicants must be able to attend these sessions in‑person.

Life at Research Partnership

We love what we do and continuously strive for innovation and creativity. We believe everyone should continuously be learning and provide:

• A comprehensive training and development programme for all staff from entry level apprentice to senior management
• A relaxed and friendly working environment
• Social events – including a summer day out and end‑of‑year party along with regular social events after office hours
• Fundraising and charity events we support Forever Angels a children’s charity whose aim is to care for abandoned babies in Tanzania, Africa as well as the local charity Fulham Good Neighbours

Benefits package

• Company pension contributions of 5% available from your first day (salary sacrifice)
• 25 days annual holiday entitlement increasing by 1 day for each year of service up to 30 days
• Additional birthday day off
• Private health insurance
• Life Assurance plan
• Group Income Protection
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Leave
• Annual salary and promotion reviews

About Inizio Advisory

Research Partnership is part of Inizio Advisory we partner with global life science and healthcare companies to create lasting change in human healthcare.

Through our connected capabilities in market research consulting and brand alignment we support clients at every stage of their journey.

Our expertise, technology platforms and data‑driven insights help clients to accelerate their clinical and commercial success resulting in long‑term value for clients and their patients.

Further information

This is a full‑time role working in a hybrid pattern (2 days per week in the office) at our fantastic HQ location in Fulham Green directly opposite Putney Bridge in London which boasts free state‑of‑the‑art gym with showers on‑site café panoramic river views landscaped gardens and regular social events.

Don't meet every job requirement? That’s okay! Our company is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly fit every qualification we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.

Key Skills

• Facilities Management
• Account Management
• Defense
• High School
• Fleet
• Budgeting

Employment Information

Employment Type: Full‑time

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