Senior Insights Manager-PRS IN VIVO

Make Your Mark at Ipsos

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 hybrid basis with 3 days in the office and the rest from home.

About You

Essential Skills

• 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.

Desirable Skills

• 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
• Attention to detail
• Analytical thinking
• Creative thinking and problem-solving
• Resilience, flexibility and agility
• Motivation and self-awareness
• Technological literacy
• Empathy and active listening
• Service orientation and customer focus

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.

Ready to have an impact? Apply now!

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!

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