Graduate Research Executive Wallingford 2024

Would you like to work with the world’s top food and drink companies to help them develop incredible new products? Are you looking for a varied, fast paced role in a welcoming environment, that will enable you to be creative and analytical?

We are recruiting our second group of Graduate Research Executives to start in September 2024.

This opportunity will introduce you to the dynamic world of Consumer Market Research and set you up for an incredibly exciting and dynamic career working with the world’s most famous brands. This role will be based in Wallingford, Oxfordshire our HQ.

About MMR

Spotted an exciting new product in the shops recently? Chances are, we've played a key role in its creation.

We are an independent, global consumer and sensory research agency specialising in food, drink, personal and household care research. We are industry leaders, guiding best in class innovation for our clients – partnering with over 50% of the top 100 global food and drink brands such as Coke, Diageo, Mondelez, GSK, Kelloggs, Colgate and Nestle.

Our team of over 800 highly engaged, multi-disciplined employees are primarily dynamic research professionals, sensory experts and data scientists. We’re a diverse bunch, with backgrounds in R&D, insight, marketing, sensory science, data sciences and psychology. We also boast a true global reach with offices in UK, US, China, South Africa, Singapore, Colombia, Brazil, India and Thailand.

We are a “people first” company that prides itself on collaboration, honesty and mutual trust. Don’t take our word for it though, check us out on Glassdoor. You’ll see we’re currently rated at 4.7 out of 5 as an employer destination and a massive 97% of our employees would recommend working for us to a friend. Add to that 99% of our people approve of our CEO and you’ll get a general feel of what it means to be part of the MMR family.

So, what's this role all about?

As a Graduate Research Executive, you'll get the opportunity to work across a number of well-known international brands - helping across all stages of the project cycle and working within a dynamic, fast paced team environment.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Getting involved in proposal discussions, with clients and our internal teams as well as assisting with drafting elements of the proposal.
• Researching secondary data to provide commercial and category context for proposals and reports.
• Helping brief fieldwork agencies for face to face research as well as designing the questionnaire against the clients' objectives.
• Analysing data (both quantitatively and qualitatively) to reveal the story, and then helping to turn this in to insightful and engaging reports.
• You will also be able to develop skills in client relationship and management, presentation and business development.

Requirements

How do I know that this is the role for me? We think you should get in touch if you...

• Have a 2.1 or higher degree (ideally with a social science, science, business or humanities degree – but open to any)
• You're enthusiastic with a can-do attitude, you're naturally curious and have great communication skills (fluent written and spoken English)
• You're proactive and forward thinking, easily able to build relationships and relish working in a challenging team environment.
• You are someone that thrives in a fast paced environment and has a genuine interest in pursuing a career within research

Benefits

The added extras!

We offer a competitive salary, as we well as a great range of benefits including:

• Full training across every level of the Market Research process
• Structured and in-depth training programme to give you the best head start in your research career!
• Fun and supportive environment that encourages openness and honestly
• Clearly defined path of progression through the business
• Potential international opportunities as you progress within your career (including job swaps and secondments)
• Opportunity to work with people all over the world on a daily basis!

MMR delivers a class leading set of marketing science tools and approaches, many of which are proprietary to MMR. We are endorsed by our global client base for our agility, technical expertise and willingness to adapt research solutions to directly focus on specific client challenges. We’ve built a reputation of providing innovative statistical analysis and techniques, coupled with optimal research design consultancy, that successfully delivers against our clients’ specific business objectives.