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Senior Project Executive / Project Manager 
3+ years’ experience

We’re seeking a proficient Senior Project Executive or Project Manager to join our UK PM function. Having developed a new PM strategy for the business, we are now looking for a confident, experienced, and ambitious individual to join the Head of PM in shaping the team.

The successful candidate(s) will be bright, creative, and organised. The role is an exciting opportunity to build experience and learn new skills. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years market research experience from a client facing agency, feel ready to move into a varied role and acquire more responsibility.

What’s the job?

The day-to-day role will be based within a sector-specific group, working primarily on projects for clients in the Financial and Media sectors. However, the wider team role will allow you to help implement and embed PM processes across all parts of the business.

The work is varied, dynamic and challenging. All colleagues are expected to develop both qualitative and quantitative skills and be flexible enough to work on a mix of ad-hoc and continuous projects across online, CATI and F2F methodologies. Most of the work will be UK based, with fieldwork taking place in various locations, but there may also be the opportunity to travel for multi-country studies.

What you’ll do

  • Proposal preparation: gathering costs, advising on design and preparing a schedule, in collaboration with other team members/Directors
  • Take a leading role in all aspects of project management throughout the project lifecycle
  • Manage both revenue and costs, ensuring accurate and up to date management information
  • Create and maintain project timelines and plans
  • Implement roles and responsibilities on projects to ensure the right team balance
  • Advise the research team on project inputs (q’re, report templates etc) with a focus on project efficiencies
  • Undertake quality processes from checking of scripts through to report production
  • Ensure projects are delivered on time, to scope and on budget
  • Identify and implement project learnings, and making recommendations for future efficiencies
  • Share best practice in project management across the agency
  • Manage and develop relationships with both clients and supplier contacts, in collaboration with the wider project team
  • Coach others within the team / company, where appropriate to do so
  • Support the Head of PM in the growth of the PM model

What you’ll bring

You must be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

  • Professional experience, ideally within a research agency, evidencing well-rounded and developing research skills across the project cycle including project design & costing, development of fieldwork materials, management of fieldwork and analysis/reporting processes
  • Outstanding project management, an ability to work to deadlines and juggle competing priorities
  • An eye for detail and accuracy at all stages, but particularly when checking project materials e.g. survey programs / CATI scripts, data and reports
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence and guide colleagues, clients, and suppliers
  • Creative thinking and problem solving, capable of challenging the status quo and finding effective improvements
  • The ability to delegate down, and manage up, tasks and responsibilities
  • Excellent, fluent, written and spoken English (fluency in other languages is a bonus but not a requirement)
  • A high level of competence in working with both Excel and PowerPoint

Experience in the following would be viewed as a bonus rather than a requirement but, at a minimum, we are looking for someone who is willing to learn and undertake:

  • Projects on behalf of a variety of clients in our key sectors
  • A mix of both quantitative and qualitative research (though with an emphasis on quant initially)
  • Implementation of best practice from professional PM accreditations such as PRINCE2 or Agile

What you’ll enjoy

Competitive salary

Discretionary year-end bonus

Hybrid working, mixing home with our London offices in King’s Cross and Angel

26 days’ annual leave, increasing with service

A variety of employee benefits

Supportive and collaborative culture

Comprehensive training programme

Progression based on achievements, not time in role

Monthly social events and regular CSR activities

Are you right for the role?

Send us your CV with a brief email about why you’d be a good fit, with ‘Senior Project Executive / Project Manager’ in the subject.

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