Junior Marketing Scientist 2021

Hall & Partners helps clients build brand relationships that matter enabling our clients to understand people, helping them to build commercially and emotionally rewarding relationships. This helps people get the brands, products and services they deserve.

The Role

Our teams manage a wide range of qualitative and quantitative domestic and international projects for an enviable list of high-profile clients across a wide range of categories; everyone works on a mix of clients and markets. 

Our work is brand and communications focused and we are growing our capabilities more broadly to offer a variety of solutions for our client's issues. One of these growing capabilities is using social media data to complement other sources of data to help inform our client's strategy.

The Modellers team uses predictive models and other statistical methods (multivariate techniques, clustering/segmentation, conjoint/choice modelling) to provide strategic marketing insights to our wide range of clients. However, the job goes beyond that, as our statisticians consult with the client services team, programmers, project managers and external clients.

As a Junior Marketing Scientist within The Modellers, you will assist with research design and will be responsible for analysing data from experiments, surveys, and other sources. You will be client-facing and will have the opportunity to not just run models but help shape the research methodology and impact our client’s business decisions.

Key Responsibilities

The day to day responsibilities of a Junior Marketing Scientist include:

• Running advanced statistical analyses, as directed, by senior members of the team
  • Eventually developing into a more independent role
• Debriefing Hall & Partners client service teams regarding analysis results, in person
  • Eventually developing into a client facing role
• Ability to be flexible and adapt as client priorities change
• Be able to work independently but contribute to the team ethos
• Learn and develop quickly to support senior team members with ever more complex and intricate techniques learned through on the job training
• Our analysts work with both internal teams and external clients via e-mail, phone calls and face to face workshops. Our Marketing Scientists review and contribute to proposals, survey design and report writing and presentations.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills
• Proficiency with statistical software such as:
  • SPSS and/or R (essential)
  • MS Office including advanced Excel including LOOKUPs (essential) and VBA (desirable; essential for senior role)
  • SAS, SQL, Python (not essential)
• Practical experience running analyses and predictive models such as:
  • Linear and/or logistic regression (essential)
  • Other key driver methods e.g. Shapley, Kruskal, Elastic Net (desirable)
  • Factor analysis (desirable; essential for senior role) 
• Bachelors and/or Masters degree in statistics, economics, or other quantitative area background
• Ideally 1-2 years working in marketing sciences or a similar field, but may consider recent graduates of a suitable caliber

What we offer you

We believe we have a unique culture. It’s a difficult thing to put into words but it’s all about being challenging yet treating each other with respect. We are naturally curious and we love to learn and discover new things.

We nurture opinions and really respect people who have a point of view and aren’t afraid to share their thinking. We work as teams and responsibilities sit with everyone in that team, whatever their job title. A can-do attitude goes a long way in our business and we don't tolerate egos!

We are passionate about helping our people to learn, stretch and grow. We want this to be a place where people feel challenged, as well as guided and supported.

We have a Learn calendar packed with opportunities to attend interactive training sessions. From “OutsideIn” sessions with industry experts to “15 minutes of Fame” sessions with colleagues to share the amazing work we do, there are lots of ways to build your skills for the future.

Benefits

We want our people to feel rewarded for the great work they do. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• Private healthcare
• Permanent health insurance
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme
• Group life insurance
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Monthly financial planning clinic
• Additional week’s holiday after 4 years continued service
• Interest free season ticket loan
• A bottle of champagne and a £50 gift voucher for each birthday 
• Childcare vouchers
• Eye test & £50 contribution to glasses
• Cycle to work scheme
• Paid Volunteer day
• Flexible working

Equal Opportunities

We believe the best teams are the ones that have the most diverse range of talent. We celebrate difference and believe that everyone has unique strengths to contribute. We uncover the personal strengths of everyone who works for us, recognising that we’re stronger when we work together.

We recognise the importance of a truly diverse workforce that reflects the world we live in, as we work together to close the ‘relationship gap’ between people and brands. We welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality, social background, religion and/or belief.