Research Manager

**Research Manager**

**circa £40,000 to £45,000 per dependent on experience**

**Stevenage, Hertfordshire (with Hybrid Working)**

What if you could deliver high quality research to support our goals?

What if your role supported a range of teams in making impactful business decisions?

What if you were our Research Manager?

At the IET, making our world a better place starts by creating a better place for our people. At the IET you’ll have more than just a job. Our work is exciting and challenging, connecting the people who solve the problems that matter. It means working withus has real meaning and impact, and you’ll grow - professionally and personally - in ways you never thought possible. We’re also making significant investments in our people, including providing a modern, vibrant workplace and embracing hybrid working.

**What you’ll be doing**

Working within the strategic marketing team, you’ll provide insights to the business to enable timely and effective decisions that support operational effectiveness and the achievement of business objectives. You’ll be responsible for research delivery,including identifying requirements for quantitative and qualitative research; to manage research projects working with stakeholders across the business; to communicate and report on research findings to the organization and to develop relationships with marketresearch agencies and other professional engineering institutions.

The strategic marketing team support the business across a number of key areas including publishing and research solutions, creating value propositions for our customer groups to engage and attract new customers and members, providing market insight intonew sectors and markets that could be attractive for the organisation, supporting the professional development of engineers and promoting the output of our policy and thought leadership work.

**What we hope you can bring to the role**

You’ll bring your strong quantitative and qualitative research expertise across a range of methodologies - online surveys, focus groups, depth interviews - plus experience of managing research agencies. You’ll be able to use your ability to analyse researchdata and interpret findings to provide actionable insights and communicate them through reports and presentations, working with a number of key stakeholders across the business.

**We’d love to get to know you**

Is Imposter syndrome creeping in? Don’t worry - we’d rather hear from you this time than not hear from you at all Read on for a little more information about the role; but also, keep in mind that we’re open to discussing flexible ways of working, includingreduced hours and working in an agile way, supported by a hybrid working framework that allows you to find the best place to do your best work.

**A little more about the role**
- Working with business stakeholders to identify requirements for qualitative and quantitative research and other market intelligence to inform the organisation of challenges and growth opportunities.
- Challenge and influence stakeholders on various matters including the purpose of research projects, alignment to strategic objectives and alternative solutions (where appropriate).
- Manage and deliver internal research projects.
- Develop longer-term relationships with research agencies and sister PEI’s to build an understanding of the IET’s environment.
- Project manage the delivery of external research projects
- Produce summary reports and presentations of results from individual research projects (or across multiple projects and sources) to inform business decision making at all levels across the business.
- Manage communications with Trustees, Main Boards and the IET Executive regarding the key research projects, the design of those research projects owned by the Main Boards, and the results of Governance and Main Board effectiveness surveys.
- To comply with GDPR legislation and act responsibly on matters of data disclosure/privacy both internally and with third parties.
- To comply with the Market Research Code of Conduct.

**A little more about what we’re looking for**
- Professional, experienced market researcher with excellent organizational and communication skills
- Demonstrable experience in customer/market research, including management of external agencies
- Numerate, with experience of data analysis
- Ability to interpret and articulate research findings and communicate through reports and presentations
- Experience with online survey tools (eg Questback)
- Experience with specialist IT tools (SPSS)
- Experience of statistical analysis methods

**What if you could be you?**_The IET is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To find out more, head over to our 'Work for the IET’ site._