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About the Role

This role is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced researcher to play a pivotal role in ensuring decisions across Marketing, Fundraising and Engagement are informed by robust consumer insight and a strong understanding of audience needs, motivations and experiences. You will combine strong research expertise with excellent stakeholder management skills, and ability to translate evidence into compelling recommendations that influence decision-making across the organisation.

Responsibilities

Manage primary and secondary insight research projects, including commissioning market research agencies, establishing clear project objectives, managing project timelines, and overseeing costs and data quality checks.
Carry out end-to-end market research projects in-house, managing development of research materials, sampling, analysis and report writing.
Develop strong relationships with internal stakeholders, working closely with them to understand their insight requirements and ambitions, and providing guidance on the most appropriate insight projects or programmes of work.
Collaborate across Data, Insight and Performance teams to provide joined up delivery and understanding of insight.
Manage the package of insight products and tools, ensuring the value of these tools is optimised.

Requirements

Extensive experience of using quantitative and qualitative market research techniques to drive actionable insight.
Significant experience of insight project delivery including writing briefs with clear, agreed objectives and delivering actionable outputs.
Collaborative working style with excellent stakeholder management skills, demonstrating the ability to engage, influence and negotiate at all levels.
Consumer focused and outward looking, with a strategic and analytical mindset and ability to identify broad themes from data.
Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate insight effectively to colleagues of all levels in both formal and informal environments.
Proven experience of agency management.
Excellent project management and planning skills with ability to prioritise workload and manage ambiguity.
Strong core market research skills including survey writing & discussion guide development and relevant experience of data analysis (Excel) and data charting (PowerPoint).
Internal candidates should ideally have completed their 6-month ‘getting started’ period before applying for other roles.
Internal candidates must have discussed their intention to apply and gained approval to apply with their line manager.
Internal candidates must have been in their substantive (home) role for at least 6 months (if previously on secondment).
Must be eligible to work in the UK.
Candidates must be 18 years or older.

Skills

Quantitative market research techniques
Qualitative market research techniques
Stakeholder management
Strategic mindset
Analytical mindset
Communication skills
Agency management
Project management
Planning skills
Survey writing
Discussion guide development
Data analysis (Excel)
Data charting (PowerPoint)
SPSS (advantageous)

Location

Stratford, London

Work Type

1-2 days in the office
Full time

Experience Level

Extensive experience
Significant experience

Salary/Compensations

£39,000 – £44,000

Benefits

Generous benefits package
Wide range of career and personal development opportunities
High-quality tools

About the Company

Cancer Research UK exists to beat cancer.
Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do: Act with ambition, courage and determination; Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism; Human: Act to have a positive impact on people; Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively.

Equal Opportunity

We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
There’s a place for everyone at Cancer Research UK. Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential.
We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented, and believe that a diverse workforce will help us to beat cancer sooner.
We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work. We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen by emailing us at recruitment@cancer.org.uk.