Research Executive-Long term communities (Qual)

Ipsos; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Pension contribution

Income protection

Life assurance

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Ipsos is seeking a Research Executive to work across long‑term communities, delivering insight‑led programmes that blend qualitative and quantitative methods. You will support community engagement, project management and the development of questionnaires and discussion guides for a diverse client base.

You’ll gain exposure to Ipsos’ AI-powered solutions, collaborating with a skilled team and contributing to high‑impact projects.

Qualifications

• Strong academic background in Market Research, Social Sciences or Business.
• Experience in both quantitative and qualitative research.
• Ability to draft client materials such as questionnaires and discussion guides.
• Experience communicating with clients.
• Understanding of project finances.

Responsibilities

• Deliver engaging, insight-led research programmes for a range of clients.
• Support delivery from start to finish: community engagement, project management, questionnaire and discussion guide development.
• Analyze data and prepare client-facing reports.
• Communicate with clients and manage expectations.

Skills

Academic background

Quantitative research

Qualitative research

Client communication

Finance awareness

Materials development

Scripts and reports

Multi-project management

Job description

Make Your Mark at Ipsos

Are you passionate about understanding people and behaviour? Do you enjoy combining qualitative and quantitative insights to solve complex business challenges? Are you looking for a role where you'll work closely with clients, build expertise in long-term communities, and help shape meaningful decisions? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

Job Description

Make Your Mark at Ipsos

Are you passionate about understanding people and behaviour? Do you enjoy combining qualitative and quantitative insights to solve complex business challenges? Are you looking for a role where you'll work closely with clients, build expertise in long-term communities, and help shape meaningful decisions? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

About The Role

Ipsos Understanding Unlimited (UU) is the qualitative research arm of Ipsos, specialising in qualitative research, online communities, ethnography, workshops and long-term community panels. As a Research Executive within our Long-Term Communities team, you will play a key role in delivering engaging, insight-led research programmes for a range of clients.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop expertise across both qualitative and quantitative methodologies while working on long-term communities that uncover deep consumer motivations and behaviours. You will support the delivery of research projects from start to finish, including community engagement, project management, questionnaire and discussion guide development, data analysis, reporting and client communications.

You’ll work within a collaborative, highly experienced team, gaining exposure to diverse client challenges and helping clients maximise member engagement and community value. Alongside developing core research and project management skills, you will become familiar with Ipsos’ AI-powered research solutions and learn how to combine human expertise with technology to generate richer insights.

This role offers a clear development pathway, varied project exposure, and the opportunity to build a rewarding career within one of the world’s leading research organisations.

About You

Essential Skills

• Strong academic background, ideally in Market Research, Social Sciences, or Business.
• Passionate about both quantitative and qualitative research, eager to learn and grow across a range of methodologies.
• Understanding of client objectives with demonstrated communication with clients.
• Proven awareness of your impact on project finances.
• Experience in developing client-relevant materials such as questionnaires, discussion guides, reports and proposals.
• Proficient in checking and drafting materials like scripts, tables, code frames, and reports.
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, and able to juggle the needs and responsibilities of multiple projects in parallel

Desirable Skills

• An understanding of quantitative research with current experience or a desire to build core craft skills
• Experience of running long-term communities (particularly for qual insights)
• Experience of presenting to clients
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Exceptional organisational and time management skills.
• Familiarity with AI-powered research tools and how to leverage them for data analysis, trend prediction, and automation.

Behaviours

• Curiosity and a passion for learning.
• Collaboration and teamwork.
• Client focus.
• Accountability and ownership.
• Adaptability and resilience.
• Innovative thinking.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Proactive problem-solving.
• Commitment to delivering impact.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you as an individual. Our standard benefits include 25 days annual leave, pension contribution, income protection and life assurance. In addition, there are a range health & wellbeing, financial benefits and professional development opportunities.

We have a hybrid approach to work and ask people to be in the office or with clients for 3 days per week. We appreciate 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.

We are committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views. We 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. We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident scheme, certified as a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. We provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

Your application will be reviewed by someone from our Talent Team who will be in touch either way to let you know the outcome.

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 are proud of our continuous efforts in making Ipsos the best place to work!

About The Team

The Ipsos Understanding Unlimited service line uses Qualitative techniques to humanise data and bring cultural intelligence into our clients’ thinking. We bring ‘life to life’, through listening, observing and illuminating human interactions. Ipsos UU is the largest qualitative research company in the world. IUU has a community of 1300 specialists with diverse backgrounds and skill sets (e.g. ethnographers, community managers, semioticians) who understand people better than anyone else, simply because we have done more research for more clients in more countries than anyone else. With us, clients are fluent in 88 cultures.