Advisory- (Trends and Foresight) Principal

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Ipsos UK Full time

Are you looking to develop your career in one of the world's largest Research Organisations?
Strategy3 is Ipsos' consulting arm.

We are a group of experts from policy and regulation, trends and foresight, strategy, innovation, behavioural science, data consulting and market access to help organisations make evidence-based, data-driven decisions about their strategic challenges.


The Ipsos UK Trends and Foresight practice is looking for a self-motivated senior business developer in the role of Principal, to join our team of entrepreneurial thinkers and continue our successful growth journey in the UK.


The Trends and Foresight practice specialises in delivering bespoke and meaningful trends, scanning the horizon for drivers of change, drawing on experts to spot emergent futures and creating scenarios and narratives of the future.

We ultimately support clients to become more resilient to change, enabling them to capitalise on opportunities to create the future they desire to see.


Alongside our client work, we publish many pieces of thought leadership, including Ipsos Global Trends, Shaping 2025, and thematic deep dives such as Making a Plant-Based Future.


The role will be based in Tower Hill in London, and report into our UK and Global Head of Trends and Foresight.


  • Previous experience in a clientfacing commercial, sales and/or business development role.
  • Strong business acumen and critical thinking skills
  • Proven track record of business development success
  • Existing portfolio of client relationships
  • Visionary insight into how to grow and evolve a business
  • Enormous personal impact and executive presence
  • Impeccable interpersonal and communication skills, written and verbal
  • Strong project management skills and ability to juggle multiple projects, both client and internal
  • Demonstrated leadership and linemanagement skills with team members at all levels
  • Commitment to coaching, growing, and nurturing talent
  • Entrepreneurial scrappiness, ambition, determination, and fearlessness


You don't need to be an expert in trends and foresight methodology or approaches, but you must have a passion for this world and some experience in delivery of such projects.

Critically important is the ability to successfully navigate large organisations, find and leverage the right buying points, and build relationships internally and externally across a wide range of personalities and specialties.


About us....
Ipsos is one of the world's largest market research companies with offices in 90 countries. We are an innovative, entrepreneurial, client-focused organisation, providing research services to over 5,000 clients worldwide. Proudly, we are the only global market research company that is still controlled and operated by market researchers.

We aim to be intellectually curious and passionate researchers who set ourselves high standards and aim to work collaboratively to service our clients most effectively.


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 more bright, friendly, hard-working and enthusiastic people, from more backgrounds, with more 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.

**If this is what you are looking for from your next role, we look forward to hearing from you

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