Senior Project Executive-Qualitative team

Ipsos; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Pension contribution

Income protection

Life assurance

Health & wellbeing benefits

Professional development

Job summary

Ipsos is seeking an experienced project manager to lead qualitative research projects in a fast-paced environment. You will organise and deliver high-quality studies across sectors, working with researchers, suppliers and clients in the UK and internationally.

You will manage budgets, project plans and recruitment, ensuring on-time delivery while maintaining financial accuracy and stakeholder satisfaction.

Qualifications

• At least two years of qualitative project management experience or related MR recruitment experience.
• Good understanding of the full market research project lifecycle.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Manage projects end to end from budgets and plans to supplier coordination and delivery.
• Coordinate recruitment and client-facing activities; monitor project finances.
• Advise on screeners and respondent profiles; negotiate supplier costs.
• Identify smarter, more efficient ways of working and share learnings.

Skills

Qualitative PM

MR lifecycle

Budget mgmt

Communication

Detail-oriented

MS Office

AI in tasks

Tools

Microsoft Office

AI tools

Job description

Make Your Mark at Ipsos

Are you an experienced project manager who enjoys bringing complex research projects together? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, juggling priorities and working collaboratively with researchers, suppliers and clients? If you're looking to develop your career within qualitative research, we'd love to hear from you.

Job Description

Make Your Mark at Ipsos

Are you an experienced project manager who enjoys bringing complex research projects together? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, juggling priorities and working collaboratively with researchers, suppliers and clients? If you're looking to develop your career within qualitative research, we'd love to hear from you.

About The Role

You’ll join Ipsos Understanding Unlimited (UU), our qualitative research team, working alongside our researchers to organise and deliver high-quality research for clients across sectors including finance, FMCG and automotive. You’ll work across UK and international projects, using methodologies ranging from face-to-face focus groups and interviews to online communities and other digital approaches.

This is a hands‑on project management role where you’ll manage projects end to end, from creating budgets and project plans through to coordinating suppliers, recruitment and delivery. You’ll contribute to project design, advise on screeners and respondent profiles, negotiate supplier costs and keep projects on track financially.

You’ll be joining a lively, fast‑paced team where attention to detail, collaboration and creative problem solving are key. You’ll also have opportunities to identify smarter and more efficient ways of working, share project learnings and continue developing your project management expertise.

About You

Essential skills:

• At least two years’ qualitative project management experience, or experience in a related field such as market research recruitment
• Good understanding of the full market research project lifecycle
• Strong organisation skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
• Confident written and verbal communication skills
• Experience managing budgets and project finances
• Strong attention to detail and ownership of your work
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
• Proficiency in AI use and adoption to enhance day‑to‑day tasks

Desirable Skills

• Experience contributing to client meetings and advising on practical project delivery
• Strong client management experience
• Knowledge of long‑term community panels, or an enthusiasm to learn about them

Behaviours

• Resilient, flexible and agile
• Curious, with a desire to keep learning
• Empathetic and an active listener
• Collaborative and a strong team player
• Positive, proactive and solutions focused
• Creative in your thinking
• Motivated and self‑aware

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 of 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, as a more diverse workforce enables 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 Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and 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.