Research Manager; Qualitative - FTC

London, England, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

Make Your Mark at Ipsos!

We are a leading global market and social research company, enabling organisations to make smarter, bolder, and faster decisions.

Are you a passionate qualitative researcher looking for an exciting opportunity to work with top-tier clients in the FMCG industry? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment where your insights make a real impact? If so, we want to hear from you!

About the role:

As a Research Manager, you'll lead high-quality research projects that impact top-tier clients in the FMCG team. Your role will involve managing projects from conception to completion, ensuring that deliverables meet client objectives and drive business impact. Working with the vibrant FMCG team, you'll participate in online communities, ethnography, focus groups, and workshops. Your insights will contribute significantly to understanding consumer motivations and behaviours globally.

About you:

• Genuine interest in FMCG, brands, innovation and cultural trends.
• Experience in managing research projects and client relationships.
• Experience working across projects involving workshops and co-creation.
• Proficient in analysis software and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Knowledge of core AI and machine learning concepts in research, such as predictive modelling and sentiment analysis.
• Experience in AI qual i.e. modbots, would be ideal

Behaviours:

• Highly collaborative and enjoys working as part of a close-knit team
• Proactive
• Detail-oriented
• Takes initiative
• Resilience, flexibility and agility
• Client-focused
• Analytical thinking
• Creative thinking
• Motivation and self-awareness
• Service orientation and customer service

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you as an individual. Our standard benefits include 25 days annual leave, pension contribution, income protection and life assurance. In addition, there are a range health & wellbeing, financial benefits and professional development opportunities.

We have a hybrid approach to work and ask people to be in the office or with clients for 3 days per week. We appreciate you may have commitments outside of work and will consider flexible working applications - please highlight what you are looking for when you make your application.

We are committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views. We recognise that this is important for our business success - a more diverse workforce will enable us to better reflect and understand the world we research and ultimately deliver better research and insight to our clients.

We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident scheme, certified as a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. We provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

Your application will be reviewed by someone from our Talent Team who will be in touch either way to let you know the outcome.

Ready to have an impact? Apply now!

The Ipsos Understanding Unlimited service line uses Qualitative techniques to humanize data and bring cultural intelligence into our clients’ thinking. We bring ‘life to life’, through listening, observing and illuminating human interactions. Ipsos UU is the largest qualitative research company in the world. IUU has a community of 1300 specialists with diverse backgrounds and skill sets (e.g. ethnographers, community managers, semioticians) who understand people better than anyone else, simply because we have done more research for more clients in more countries than anyone else.

With us, clients are fluent in 88 cultures.

Ipsos is one of the world’s largest research companies and currently the only one primarily managed by researchers, ranking as a #1 full-service research organization for four consecutive years. With over 75 different data-driven solutions, and presence in 90 markets, Ipsos brings together research, implementation, methodological, and subject‑matter experts from around the world, combining thematic and technical experts to deliver top‑quality research and insights.

Simply speaking, we help the biggest companies solve some of their biggest problems, serving more than 5000 clients across the globe by providing research, data, and insights on their target markets. And we are proud of our continous efforts in making Ipsos the best place to work!

• Job Identification 7976
• Job Category Research
• Posting Date 02/27/2026, 04:44 PM
• Locations London, England, United Kingdom (Hybrid)