Senior Insights Manager - PRS IN VIVO

Ipsos in the UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Pension contribution

Income protection

Life assurance

Health & wellbeing

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Ipsos in the UK is seeking a Senior Insights Manager to grow your career in shopper and behavioural insight. You'll lead projects, engage clients and turn data into compelling narratives that guide brand decisions.

Working in a hybrid setup, you’ll design studies, analyse results and present actionable insights to clients while collaborating with cross-functional teams. This is a chance to shape the future direction of our shopper research practice and develop your consultancy skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in ad-hoc quantitative research.
• Strong project management and milestone leadership.
• Ability to analyze data and translate into insights.
• Excellent client engagement and presentation skills.
• Experience with AI tools to enhance day-to-day tasks.

Responsibilities

• Lead project design, analysis and storytelling across shopper/behaviour studies.
• Manage milestones, timelines and client communications.
• Develop insights and contribute to growth through consultancy skills.
• Support end-to-end ad hoc research projects.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver high-quality research.

Skills

Ad-hoc quantitative research

Project management

Data analysis

Client presentations

Storytelling with insights

AI tooling usage

Job description

Are you a passionate researcher looking to grow your career in shopper and behavioural insight? Do you enjoy turning data into compelling stories, building client relationships, and helping global brands navigate an ever-changing consumer landscape? If you're looking for a role where you can make your mark and contribute to a growing business, we'd love to hear from you.

About the Role

PRS IN VIVO is globally recognised for helping brands understand shoppers and packaging through behavioural science, qualitative and quantitative research. As societal and economic changes continue to influence shopping behaviour, we partner with clients to create more effective shopper experiences, packaging, products and innovation strategies.

As a Senior Insights Manager, you'll play a key role in supporting the growth of the business through outstanding project delivery, client engagement and insight generation. Working closely with Insight Managers and Directors, you'll be heavily involved in project design, analysis and storytelling, while developing your own commercial and consultancy skills.

This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious researcher looking to take ownership of project milestones, contribute fresh thinking, and have a genuine voice in the future direction of the company. You'll work across a variety of shopper, packaging and behavioural science challenges, helping some of the world's leading brands make better decisions through insight.

This role is offered on a 40 hour week contract on a hybrid basis with 3 days in the office and the rest from home.

About You

• Passionate, creative and curious researcher with experience in ad-hoc quantitative research.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to lead project milestones confidently.
• High standards of research quality, attention to detail and initiative.
• Experience analysing data and generating meaningful, actionable insights.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to contribute to client presentations.
• Ability to manage your workload effectively and collaborate with colleagues across teams.
• Desire to contribute to business growth and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Proficiency in AI use and adoption to enhance day-to-day tasks.
• Diligent, detail-oriented and committed to ongoing professional development.
• Solid practical market research experience, ideally within FMCG research.
• Experience supporting end-to-end ad hoc research projects.
• Understanding of quantitative methodologies and research design.
• Ability to identify and proactively address project challenges.
• Confidence to objectively challenge thinking and contribute new perspectives.
• Interest in market trends, shopper behaviour and behavioural science.
• Ability to build successful working relationships with clients.
• Experience balancing multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Open to learning new approaches, methodologies and technologies.

Behaviours

• Curiosity and lifelong learning
• Proactivity and initiative
• Collaboration and teamwork
• Client focus
• Analytical thinkingCreative thinking and problem-solving
• Resilience, flexibility and agility
• Motivation and self-awareness
• Technological literacy
• Empathy and active listening
• Service orientation and customer focus

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.