Market Research Placement Student London 2023

Are you looking to develop a career in one of the world’s largest Research Agencies?

Ipsos is one of the world’s largest research companies and currently the only one primarily managed by researchers. With offices in 90 markets, Ipsos brings together research, implementation, methodological, and subject-matter experts from around the world, combining thematic and technical experts globally with local knowledge to deliver top-quality research. Our Game Changer motto is the ethos of how we approach our research. We use innovative research methods to answer these questions for our clients, giving them impactful and deeper insight.

Our culture is unique - we have the entrepreneurial spirit and quirkiness of a small boutique, but we also have the resources, scale, and diversity of a large global agency. We have bright, friendly, hard-working, and enthusiastic people, from many backgrounds, with various interests, skills, and experiences to learn from. Our values are based on our diverse cultural backgrounds, helping us to be responsive, client-focused, and flexible.

Your role

As a Market Research Placement Student, you will be a key part of our team working on real-life client projects for some of the most well-known dynamic brands and companies.

You will gain exposure to a variety of client industries and research approaches, giving you some great experiences and a great jumping off point for your future career. You’ll get to work closely with data whilst seeing the end-to-end project life cycle including taking client briefs, working through timelines and costings, questionnaire development, quality control, and liaising with our fieldwork team. When your role starts, you will be assigned to a specialist team who are experts within their field.

Through support from your manager, the wider team, and our Academy training, over the course of your Placement Year, you will:

• Understand the true impact of our research and how it influences our client’s business, appreciating their organisational challenges and goals
• Develop your wider research knowledge and methodologies
• Develop your analytical skills and report writing, ensuring you tailor your insights and communication to the relevant audience
• Develop your data management and processing skills
• Work collaboratively with your team- we are well known for being a friendly and diverse group of people
• Advance your problem solving and time management skills
• Increase the level of responsibility you have working on projects, building your commercial skills and confidence

Our offer

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 industry experts. They will help you set goals to achieve your personal objectives throughout your year and help you exceed these. The opportunity to present your ideas back to senior managers, whether this is part of your specific university assignment or through an internal project you have developed.

You’ll have access to our Learning Academy and online training modules which will support your on-the-job learning and wider development. Networking is a key skill, so we have Early Careers social events with other Interns, Placement Students and Graduates from across the company.

And the fun stuff…

• 25 days’ holiday plus an extra day for your birthday and at Christmas
• Company sick pay
• 4pm finish on a Friday
• Company and team social and networking events
• Season ticket loan
• A huge variety of benefits e.g. pension contributions, income protection, winter flu jabs, eye care vouchers, online and high street discounts

About you

We welcome candidates from all different types of disciplines and subjects – this is a great opportunity for individuals who are data-minded, curious, keen and demonstrate the following traits and attitude:

• Curiosity and eagerness to learn
• Results oriented with an ambition and drive to improve things
• A keen eye and genuine motivation for detail and organisation
• An effective listener and open to constructive feedback, suggestions and new ideas
• Proactive, reliable and hard working
• Excellent attention to detail with a high degree of numeracy
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• The knack of thinking on your feet and not be afraid to express your ideas
• Motivated by working in a fast-paced environment

Along with ….

• The unrestricted right to work full-time in the UK during your placement year
• Be studying an undergraduate degree that offers a placement year

Applications close on 04/06/2023 but we may close early if we receive a high volume of applications; therefore, if you’re interested, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible!

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 understand the importance of commitments you may have outside of work, and we consider all flexible working applications - please highlight what you are looking for when you make your application.