Graduate Analyst – Ipsos Trends & Foresight – Strategy Consulting (Strategy 3) Team

Job Description

Job title: Graduate Analyst – Ipsos Trends & Foresight – Strategy Consulting (Strategy 3) Team

Company: Ipsos

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Role overview

Ipsos is one of the world’s largest research companies, with offices in 90 markets. As Ipsos’ in-house brand and innovation consultancy, Strategy3 occupies a unique space. We have the heart and hustle of a start-up paired with the big league scale and diversity of a large global agency.

In this role, you’ll be passionate about the future and how it might unfold – and what this means for organisations in the public and private sector. You will help our clients navigate the complexity, uncertainty and opportunities that the future brings to make better strategic decisions today. You’ll be supporting a small team to spot and map trends, interview leading opinion formers, carry out horizon scanning and scenario building, and run strategic workshops.

We’re a small team operating within a large organisation and across many different business functions, allowing plenty of opportunity to bring ‘futures thinking’ to a diverse range of projects across the business.

What will I be doing?

You’ll play a key role in supporting the team to deliver our client engagements. In the past 12 months we’ve worked with financial services clients, the UK and EU public sector, food and drink manufacturers, consumer healthcare and technology firms.

Our team are approachable, constructive, and helpful to our colleagues and clients, and we try to spot ways we could all work together as effectively as possible. Under the direction of senior members of the Trends and Foresight team, this role will include the following responsibilities:

• Finding complex, messy information and data and synthesising this into concise foresight;
• Support the delivery of proposals and projects;
• Help conduct and analyse expert interviews, attending internal analysis sessions and develop narratives;
• Attend debriefs with clients, capture comments and build deliverables;
• Develop a strong understanding of our clients’ business or policy challenges and goals and creating analyses that answer their key questions;
• Contribute to the scoping of proposals and own sections of the proposal writing process, including basic desk-research to support hypotheses;
• Build relationships with the immediate team, clients, and broader Ipsos community (locally and globally);
• Attend workshops in a note-taking and technical capacity;
• Build project plans, creating timelines, and undertaking project management activities;

What do I need to bring with me?

We are looking for someone who thrives in the fast-paced environment of a small consultancy – no matter the ask, we always find a way – those who are quick on their feet and even quicker in their wit are sure to be right at home! You may find yourself in a situation where you don’t always know the answer so you’ll need to be someone who has the confidence to ask questions of anyone in the team no matter how senior, to help solve your challenge.

An ideal candidate for this role and team includes the following traits:

• Being curious about the world and excited to learn about new policy areas, industries, products, and ways of seeing the world;
• Strong business and/or public sector acumen combined with creative and analytical thinking;
• Has a collaborative approach to solving problems and can tell data-led stories with fluidity, comprehensiveness and confidence;
• Can let your hair down and have a laugh, but also know when and how to act in a business-professional manner;
• Interest in continual learning, driven by enthusiasm, curiosity and the desire to tell interesting stories about the future.

Along with…

• Have a good business acumen and critical thinking skills;
• Ability to juggle multiple projects / workstreams;
• Ease and confidence with “thinking on your feet”;
• Impeccable interpersonal and communication skills, written and verbal;
• Effective listening skills with an openness to constructive feedback, suggestions and new ideas;
• A willingness to think around challenges and cope with ambiguity​
• A positive outlook when approaching new challenges​
• Has a team-oriented mindset, supportive and encouraging of others​
• Proactive, reliable and hard working.
• An unrestricted right to work in the UK.

Along with…

• The unrestricted right to work in the UK

What is in it for me?

Our Generation Ipsos programme provides a comprehensive foundation in research and how it’s practically applied in a commercial environment. You’ll be trained in client management, project and operational management, equipping you to partner with researchers, Project Management colleagues and other teams to deliver excellence for our clients. You’ll learn through real life, hands-on experience, webinars, seminars and specialist workshops.

We’ll provide you with dedicated training designed to achieve the industry recognised Market Research Society (MRS) Advanced Certificate accreditation. Networking is a key skill, so we have Early Careers events with other Graduates, Placement Students, and Interns across the company.

Having a flexible working culture where we support our colleagues and celebrate our successes is important to us. We invest our time in you and you’ll benefit from working alongside our expert teams.

Your manager will help you set goals to achieve your personal objectives throughout the year and help you exceed these.

And the fun stuff …

• 25 days’ holiday which increases over time to 30 days, plus an extra day for your birthday
• Annual summer and All Staff events
• Team socials, including Christmas parties
• Season ticket loan
• Future talent loan – an optional and interest-free loan of up to £1000 to help with any unexpected costs, so you can focus on having a great start to your career
• A huge variety of benefits e.g. pension contributions, income protection, winter flu jabs, eye care vouchers, online and high street discounts
• Opportunity to participate in and benefit from participation in our multiple Diversity and Inclusion Belong groups, which bring together people with shared identities and interests to ensure that their voices are heard through the company and that Ipsos can continue to carry out research that is most representative of the UK and wider world today.

Please note, we are looking for candidates to start ASAP in this role.

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.

HOW TO APPLY:

To apply, please follow the link below. From here you will be taken to our recruitment partner, Instant Impact’s website where you can fill out our application form. Those who are successful at this stage will be progressed to a virtual interview. The final stage will be an assessment centre.

PLEASE APPLY VIA THIS LINK:

Applications close on 12th January 2024 but we may close early if we receive a high volume of applications.

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’re proud to share we’ve received our Great Place to Work Certification in 2022 & 2023!

About the Team:

Strategy3 is a leading brand, strategy and marketing consultancy, founded and run on the premise that marketing and business are intertwined, and critically, rooted in customer centricity. S3’s multi-disciplinary team of brand strategists, researchers, management consultants, ad executives, and even a few attorneys and accountants, work together to answer complex business questions.

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Location: London

Job date: Sat, 23 Dec 2023 23:24:03 GMT

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