Research & Analytics Graduate Trainee 2021

If you're looking to start your research career in an award-winning global agency, then this might just be the role for you!

We’re currently looking for a graduate to join our award-winning Research & Analytics team in September 2021.  Offered as an initial 12-month contract with the opportunity for a permanent role on successful completion.

Within TRUE Global Intelligence (TGI), we are passionate about using research, data and information to uncover insights that are critical to understanding people, sectors, the media, businesses and markets. Our clients not only look to us to help provide them with business-critical answers for today, but to use this knowledge to innovate and plan for the future.

We’re a friendly, hard-working and curious team of 10 researchers and analysts from a wide range of backgrounds. We have ambitious plans to grow not only the TGI practice itself, but to be the growth and innovation catalyst for FleishmanHillard’s new and existing clients more broadly. We conceive and deliver both research and measurement & evaluation strategies for clients and teams across the agency, so collaboration, diligence and flexibility are key to our success as a team.

The Work

Our mission is to put intelligence at the heart of all that the agency delivers. We strive to identify meaningful connections among disparate sources of information, research and data, and create a culture of continuous learning and diversity of knowledge.

Our approach is rooted in the belief that effective research, analytics and evaluation is a blend of rigor and flexibility, consistency and customizability. Using careful data gathering and thoughtful analysis of facts, we can unlock intelligence and generate the transformative ideas that shape a company’s success.

With our unwavering focus on business outcomes, and never-ending cycle of intelligence gathering, we ensure sustained success for our clients. We provide them an advantage by finding the truth – about their audiences, their operating environment and their competition.

We work across the agency’s client portfolio, providing research, analytics and intelligence services focused on corporate reputation, brand marketing, patient awareness, stakeholder engagement, tech innovation, B2B sales and product launches.

As trusted advisors within the agency, we provide research counsel to our agency partners daily, delivering on a wide range of research consultative services, including, but not limited to:

• Providing new and existing clients with research, intelligence and analytics that helps them plan cut-through campaigns by exploring and understanding their target audience(s) and stakeholders
• Delivering in-depth analysis of coverage, social conversation and other digital signals to understand the topics and issues that are pertinent to our clients and the campaigns we execute on their behalf
• Using primary research to develop content and thought leadership collateral for our clients to support their business and broader communication efforts
• Developing and implementing measurement and evaluation strategies that allow for programmatic tracking and reporting of campaigns and to demonstrate how PR and communication impact our client’s business

Your role

You will be supporting the team and its clients with research for planning, strategy and execution, using research methods and sources that span across secondary, syndicated, and primary (both quantitative and qualitative). You will also be responsible for delivering reports, dashboards and analyses that make use of data from media, social conversation, search, digital, and surveys, working with and learning from the TGI team, account teams and clients, ensuring reporting is accurate and provides salient observations.

 Your day to day:

• Providing monitoring, conversation analysis and pattern recognition across client accounts
• Providing traditional desk research, supporting new business and client teams by delivering market, competitive and audience intelligence
• Supporting on primary research and reputation projects, including helping to write surveys, working with third-party partners, supporting on data quality control as well as reporting and analysis of results
• Assisting new business and existing clients in identifying emotive behavioral drivers for target audiences
• Supporting the social analytics practice with social and digital analytics as well as the development of structured reporting

You will provide consistent quality, delivering reports that are free from grammatical and quantitative errors and provide valuable insights to clients. In doing so you will ensure TGI deliverables are of the highest standards. Additionally, you will be responsible for handling requests from teams across the business with positivity and enthusiasm, working closely with TGI colleagues to deliver on these requests. 

You will be accountable for work across several clients and sectors, with about 80% of your time spent on billable work, and the remaining 20% spent on new business and agency initiatives.

About you?

As an agency we celebrate your strengths and ambitions, both professionally and personally, encouraging you to bring your passions to work. Joining FH brings the benefits of belonging to a top ranked global network whilst enabling you to grow in an entrepreneurial environment.

We are looking for a team player with an entrepreneurial spirit, who is passionate about developing their career in integrated communications as part of a leading global agency. 

You will have a creative and curious mind, be willing to lean into new opportunities, stay on top of industry trends, develop meaningful campaign ideas and drive excellent results for clients. Previous PR or communications agency experience is a bonus but not essential.

You must be free to start the position in September and eligible to work in the UK to be considered for the scheme.  Apart from that all we ask is that you can demonstrate a passion for communications.

Awarded Gold in Best Places to Work, Large Agency by PRWeek (2020), we are committed to creating an inclusive work environment for everyone. The only PR Agency awarded EY’s National Equality Standard, all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age. Do let us know if you need any adjustments made during the interview process. 

Why FleishmanHillard?

FleishmanHillard globally specialises in public relations, reputation management, public affairs, brand marketing, digital strategy, social engagement and content strategy. We have been named PRWeek’s Global Agency of the Year and Best Places to Work; a “Standout Agency” on Advertising Age’s A-List; NAFE’s “Top 50 Companies for Executive Women” for six years running; and among our firm’s award-winning work we’ve taken home 5 Lions in the past two years at the Cannes International Festival of Creativity.  We’re also more motivated by what we can give than what we receive, and in our 70th year, we’ve initiated a worldwide service commitment to support social inclusion in the communities in which we work and live.