Trainee Research Executive (Insights)
On-siteLeeds, England, United Kingdom
Leeds, England, United KingdomOn-siteFull TimeEntry LevelMedium
Full TimeEntry LevelMedium
Job Summary
Manage project administration, including setting up Teams channels, folders, and meetings, while drafting documents such as SoWs, consent forms, and questionnaires. Support fieldwork operations by preparing stimuli, packing deliveries, and ensuring protocols are followed, alongside conducting online and face-to-face qualitative moderation. Assist with data checks, analysis plans, and report contributions, while handling commercial tasks like updating Synergist, raising invoices, and managing POs. Work closely with senior team members and clients to ensure accurate project delivery and maintain high standards of responsiveness.
Required Qualifications
- Ability to commute or relocate to Leeds, LS15 8GB
- Right to work in the UK
- Ability to work at least 2-3 days in the office during the first 3-6 months
Desired Qualifications
- Degree in a relevant field (e.g. social sciences, marketing, business)
- Background in social sciences, psychology, marketing, business, or a diverse academic background
- Curiosity about people and what drives their thoughts and behaviours
- Creativity
- Enthusiasm for developing ideas and bringing them to life
- Ability to enjoy a challenge
- Flexibility to meet client deadlines
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
- Self-starter mindset
- Alignment with values of authenticity, partnership, entrepreneurship, and positivity
- Experience with designing research projects
- Experience with client and project management
- Experience with analysis and reporting
- Autonomy
- Creativity and innovation
- Daily variety
- Familiarity with core aspects of projects
- Ability to assist with project administrative tasks
- Ability to prepare and pack products
- Experience with fieldwork
- Ability to support analysis and reporting
- Ability to keep project administration up to date
- Ability to set up Teams channels
- Ability to set up project folders
- Ability to set up meetings with project teams
- Ability to confirm incentives with Field Ops
- Ability to set up AlertYa
- Ability to ensure MIS is up to date
- Ability to write initial drafts of project administrative documents (SoW, consent forms, screeners, questionnaires, discussion guides, product reconciliation forms, table data specs)
- Ability to complete Video lab briefing forms
- Ability to draft video edits sheets
- Ability to work with Video:lab and translation agencies
- Ability to complete video edits
- Ability to support all operational aspects of fieldwork
- Ability to follow fieldwork protocols
- Ability to deliver products
- Ability to prepare stimuli/products for testing
- Ability to pack and deliver
- Ability to organize fieldwork
- Ability to ensure online scripts for screeners and questionnaires are accurate
- Ability to conduct detailed testing and checks on scripts
- Ability to undertake key aspects of fieldwork
- Ability to host in person
- Ability to assist with online and/or face to face qualitative moderation
- Ability to write summaries
- Ability to complete content analysis sheets
- Ability to monitor quotas and completion rates
- Ability to liaise with internal teams to ensure fieldwork is completed accurately, on time, and on spec
- Ability to create and send out participant Zoom links
- Ability to ask participants to complete tasks
- Ability to ensure participants can access online fieldwork
- Ability to accurately complete coding of open questions
- Familiarity with key principles from the client charter
- Ability to support senior team members with client requests and client management
- Ability to demonstrate high standards of responsiveness and flexibility
- Ability to accompany senior team members to client meetings
- Ability to take clear thorough notes
- Ability to proactively help the team learn about the client's business
- Ability to conduct data checks to ensure accurate data in tables and reports
- Ability to proof read
- Ability to support initial analysis on qual and quant projects
- Ability to contribute to analysis plans and meetings
- Ability to contribute slides/analysis to final reports
- Ability to work with seniors on data input/entry and chart building
- Ability to ensure accurate project information is up to date on Synergist
- Ability to raise POs and billing plans
- Ability to calculate total project value
- Ability to liaise with Finance to ensure invoices and POs are raised as per the process
- Ability to be a good team player
- Ability to proactively volunteer time to help others
- Ability to demonstrate flexibility to get involved in different project types
- Ability to use initiative to make suggestions or find solutions when challenges are faced
- Ability to attend all trainee/foundation training sessions
- Understanding of the project lifecycle
- Curiosity to ask questions to aid development
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