Telephone Research Executive

**Telephone Research Executive**

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to work with enthusiastic and ambitious teams in a growing, friendly and dynamic conference company? GIC is a superb platform to kick start your career in business-to-business events research.

**What Will You Be Working On?**

We believe in having rounded business people and portfolios - and in keeping things more interesting Our conferences bring together some of the world’s leading brands - and you will be in direct contact with them from day one, working on varied, exciting topics such as:

- Social media
- Marketing
- Communications
- Technology & Digital innovation
- Food & Drink
- Finance
- Pharmaceuticals
- Sustainability
- HR and Internal Comms
- Charity & public sector

**About The Role**:

- Building and contacting research leads on LinkedIn and online
- Calling senior professionals and undertaking qualitative telephone research around hot topics (full training provided)
- Collating research on the day at both internal and external events - asking about topics and also collecting sponsorship and marketing leads
- Competitor research online
- Mapping market trends
- Suggesting and helping to implement new innovations

**About You - Are you**
- A pro-active, positive and ‘can do’ person with an analytical disposition
- An adaptable, commercial and entrepreneurial mind, able to research very different topics and markets quickly
- A professional, personable and confident person - able to approach delegates and start a conversation or call researchees and convince them to speak with you
- A speedy transcriber
- Somebody with the ability to work independently and make quick decisions
- Good at problem solving, self-motivating and intuitive
- Somebody with a good academic record

**Who Are We? What Will We Offer You?**
- **Great Culture**: Our team is the best thing about us - in a recent staff survey over 89% of the staff described our company culture as friendly, supportive and fast-paced.
- **In-Depth Training**: Our focus is on constant training, development, collaboration and innovation - you will be listened to and respected from the start and we will invest in your personal and professional development through formal training and mentoring.
- **Progression**: We are a small company, so you don’t have to wait for the person above you to leave - we will build the business around our people.
- **Personal Development**: Our Investment in People training programme covers non-role specific training such as financial wellbeing, time management etc for more rounded, holistic training.
- **Employee Wellbeing**:We care about our staff and so encourage healthy work/life balance and working hours.
- **Fair Practices & Charity Focus**: We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we are passionate about charity work and making a difference in the world and so donate a percentage of our company profits to charity (which any team member can suggest).

Global Insight Conferences has a diverse and inclusive workforce. Our senior leadership team is over 80% female lead and we employee above the national average rates of people from ethnically diverse backgrounds. We go above and beyond to meet the needs of our employees, including through personal and professional development with bespoke training and promotional paths; accommodating hybrid and flexible work; offering holistic wellbeing programmes; donating to charity and environmental initiatives.

Thanks for taking the time to read this and we look forward to meeting you.

Ben Kavanagh

HR and Recruitment Lead

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £22,000.00-£26,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Flexitime
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Referral programme

Schedule:

- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

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