Senior Research Manager

Our client is looking to recruit an experienced Senior Research Manager to join their growing research team.

They are seeking people who are currently working within the Education sector, or who have have had exposure previously to the education sector.

Their work addresses complex social change, shapes policy and creates impact for their clients. As a Senior Research Manager (SRM) you’ll work across 2-3 of their key sectors and take the lead role on some of their most complex, high-profile studies. You’llmanage a team of Research Managers and Executives and oversee timescales and budgets. You’ll lead on all research outputs and client liaison, offering valuable advice to clients at all stages of the project.

Working alongside their Directors you will contribute to proposals, attend new business pitches and work with the senior team to develop and build on success within your sectors.

A key part of this role is to develop the skills of your project teams through mentoring and training as well as to collaborate with their L&D Director and others to help design and deliver training to the wider research team.

**Salary**: Competitive

**Senior Research Manager Duties**:

- Design high quality questionnaires and guides.
- Conduct qualitative interviews, actively listening and probing appropriately.
- Conduct focus groups and workshops confidently and intelligently.
- Have overall responsibility for signing off specifications and data outputs
- Draw out key findings and make clear and insightful recommendations based on data collected.
- Produce insightful, in-depth and publishable reports.
- Produce thoughtful, creative and impactful presentations and deliver these to clients.
- Lead the efficient running of multiple projects through effective planning and prioritisation.
- Supervise and delegate to project teams confidently, clearly and effectively.
- Review RM, SRE and RE outputs to ensure accuracy and to feedback improvements.
- Manage project finances effectively
- Keep project Directors updated with project progress, and any problems arising.
- Lead project meetings.
- Be the first point of contact for the client, proactively ensuring that clients are kept up to date.
- Develop and maintain a professional relationship with clients, anticipating their needs and concerns.
- Contribute to the writing of clear and compelling client pitches and proposals.
- Attend pitches and make thoughtful contributions.
- Work positively and flexibly within project teams, to get the best out of all and foster / promote a healthy team spirit.
- Proactively provide support for other members of your team.
- Work effectively, and in partnership, with other departments and suppliers.
- Identify skill gaps and coordinate required training for team members, liaising with L&D director to identify training needs and delivery solutions

**Senior Research Manager Requirements**:
You may have worked for research agencies, consultancies, government departments or non-profit organisations, you might already be working at a senior level and looking to make more impact, or you’ll be ready to step into this level of responsibility. Eitherway, you should have in-depth policy knowledge in one or several of their key sectors. Experience and proficiency in mixed methods research would be ideal, however if you are stronger with either quant or qual methodologies that’s also fine.

You must have great communication skills, both written and verbal, and should be a strong leader with an approachable and collaborative style. You should have demonstrable experience managing a team and be able to manage several projects concurrently, workunder pressure and react positively as requirements change.

**Senior Research Manager Benefits**:
They’re a person-centred business and offer 28 days holiday plus bank holidays, private healthcare options, flexible working, wellbeing support and social events among other benefits.

They develop people when they’re ready rather than when there’s room in the team

**About the Company**:
The company is an award-winning social and market research agency, which sits at the summit of UK public policy and social research, conducting many of the largest and highest profile studies in the sector. Because no two projects are the same, our experiencedteam provides tailor-made research solutions, adapting their approach to issues and audiences. Meaning the research they deliver is tailored to each client’s specific needs.

As a full-service agency, they offer a full suite of research and evaluation services, including data collection, data analysis and reporting, covering quantitative and qualitative methodologies. They have a range of expertise across their key sectors whichare: Business & Enterprise; Education, Energy & Environment; Financial Services; Higher Education; Housing; Learning & Skills; Regulation; and Work, Welfare & Wellbeing.

They currently employ a team of 135 employees, working from their London office or remotely, as well as a growing number of remote workers in their interviewing services team.