Insight Manager

The role 

As Insight Manager you will manage teams on multiple, complex projects to ensure they run efficiently and to budget. As a key contact for the client, you will be responsible for building strong relationships which grow accounts, writing complex winning proposals which meet client needs, and ensuring high quality and commercially focused outputs on all projects.  

You will conduct fieldwork and workshops as required and ensure the smooth running of fieldwork from end-to-end. You will have excellent delegation skills, and be a key coach and role model within your team. 

The Insight Manager role will be accountable for: 

• Manage multiple complex projects 
• Responsible for high quality, commercially focused project outputs 
• Smooth running of fieldwork from end-to-end 
• Manage and grow client relations 
• Commercials, proposals and financials 
• Team leader, key coach and role model   

About you 

You’re fascinated by people and why they behave and think the way they do. You’re curious, proactive, and passionate about developing new ideas and running with them. You love a challenge and thrive on working in a fast-paced and innovative environment. 

You might have a degree in social sciences, marketing, or business, or similar, many of our team have wide-ranging academic backgrounds. You will also have 4-7 years’ relevant work experience in market research. The key is your ability to be accountable, proactive, personable, tenacious, organised, and detail orientated.  

A bit about Blue Yonder 

Blue Yonder is all about people: our amazing team are key to our success. We value authenticity, partnership, entrepreneurship and positivity, and these values aren’t just stuck up on a wall somewhere – they underpin everything we do, internally and externally. Our culture is key; we’re supportive, learning and solution-focused, and we’re a lovely bunch to work with. But we would say that wouldn’t we? In our 2023 full-team survey, 100% agreed their line manager cared about their learning and development, and the most common words to describe Blue Yonder were ‘friendly’, ‘innovative’ and ‘fun’.  

In the last couple of years, we’ve doubled our team size, restructured and innovated. We were shortlisted for agency of the year at the Market Research Society awards after winning breakthrough agency of the year in 2020, and we were finalist for Agency of the Year in 2020, 2021 and 2022. And in 2024, we’re still growing, innovating more than ever, and looking for more great people to join our expanding team. 

We don’t do ‘off the shelf’ approaches; we work in partnership with our clients, challenge, design solutions and make them happen. We’re hands-on, regardless of job title, and we work with mixed methods to answer client questions, presented beautifully, using a range of tools including video and interactive deliverables. And while our HQ is in Leeds, we work flexibly, and our clients and projects span the globe. 

What we offer 

We don’t do unnecessary fluff but we do offer a competitive salary, company profit share, a bonus holiday for your birthday, regular socials, a bonus day for charity work, DE&I and wellbeing initiatives and lots of structured training throughout the year. We have a flexible working environment and if there’s something that’s important to you – be it a day you need to pick the kids up, or a specific charity you want to support – let’s talk! 

We’re always looking for great people, so if this isn‘t quite the right role for you, get in touch anyway – as we grow, we’ll have more vacancies across our teams. Sometimes we even create a brand-new role for the right person, so if you like the sound of Blue Yonder, get in touch and let’s see what we can do! 

Authenticity is one of our core values, and at Blue Yonder we’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic team with equal opportunities. We want to attract, develop, and promote the very best people from all walks of life, so we actively encourage applications from a range of socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds, as well as others who are underrepresented in our sector, such as disabled or neurodiverse applicants. 

Please note successful applicants must have the right to work in the UK and will need to bring proof to the interview e.g. a passport or work permit. 

Should you be successful in the recruitment process, and if you require any reasonable adjustments to be made to accommodate your interview, let us know in confidence. 

Job Type: Full-time 

Salary: £34- £36,000 per year (dependent on experience) 

Job benefits: 

Casual dress 
Company events & socials 
Company pension scheme 
On-site parking 
Hybrid working 
Extra day off for your birthday 
Extra day for volunteering 
Career development & promotion opportunities 

Supplemental pay types: 

Company profit share scheme