Research Executive
7 months ago
**Maru are looking to recruit a Research Executive to join the team**
- Are you curious about people and the decisions they make?
- Are you looking to work with top UK and global brands across sectors including retail, fashion, technology, travel and banking?
- Do you have a positive can-do attitude, and a desire to learn new skills and work in a fast-paced environment in which no two days are the same?
At Maru, we tirelessly advocate for consumers in a demanding world to ensure fair, open and valuable exchanges that unlock customer-centric outcomes, cultivate deeper brand connections, and promote long-lasting business success for our clients.
Research Executives play a crucial role in supporting the high-quality delivery of projects for our clients. Missions and objectives are centred around supporting the execution of qualitative and quantitative research projects, facilitating the on-going success of always-on research programmes, and undertaking the analysis of collected data to identify patterns and trends in contribution to the delivery of commercial insights.
A successful Research Executive demonstrates strong analytical skills, attention to detail, effective communication abilities, and the capability to translate data into actionable insights. They are proactive, adaptable, and able to work both independently and collaboratively within a team.
**Responsibilities**:
- Interact with clients to understand their objectives and priorities. Build and maintain relationships with clients to ensure successful ongoing partnerships. Provide proactive communication throughout the lifecycle of projects and programmes and offer highly responsive support for clients with ad hoc queries.
- Input into the design, set up, and maintenance of research projects and programmes. Collaborate with other internal teams (Operations etc.) to ensure the successful launch and completion of fieldwork. Undertake quality assurance throughout to ensure research outcomes are high-quality and fit for purpose.
- Ownership of regular reporting deliverables. Contribution to the preparation of custom reports and insight presentations that successfully summarise research findings to stakeholders in a clear and understandable manner.
- Develop understanding of, and experience with, different research methodologies and analysis techniques. Seek exposure to different sectors and types of research to expand knowledge ready for a promotion to research manager.
**Competencies**:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree or equivalent.
- Positive can-do attitude, with a desire to learn new skills, and curiosity to find out more.
- Strong team player with good communication skills - liaising with different members of project teams and clients is core to the role.
- High attention to detail, and strong numeracy and literary skills.
- Experience of using Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint.
- Enjoy a challenge and want to succeed as part of a busy team.
**Location**
Hybrid working, 1-2 days per week in the office and the remaining from home - Head office based in Southampton.
**Benefits**
Benefits include 23 days annual leave, 5 days personal development leave, Summer Fridays, Bupa private healthcare, flexible working, membership to extensive discounts platform, social & wellbeing events and a dog friendly, open plan office with free onsite parking & easily commutable by train or bus.
**About the company**:
At the Maru Group we use a combination of our custom-built technology and our team’s insight expertise to help our clients better understand their customers and how they think, feel and behave. As well as running customer experience programmes for big-name clients for over 20 years, we also work in areas such as new product development and shopper understanding, and run a number of insight communities.
We have an exciting roadmap which means we continue to develop new and differentiated tools in both qual and quant areas to help our clients to better connect with their customers and make smarter, more informed decisions.
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