Research Manager

• Kokoro is an independent, award-winning agency with bright brains and a big personality
• We believe that by being plugged in to consumers, trends and the world around us we can anticipate their needs, so businesses can adapt, gain an advantage and be future-fit.
• We are human understanding experts. And we partner with businesses to ensure they understand their customers inside-out. Then we work with them to turn insight into action.
• We do new product and brand innovation, concept/comms/advertising testing, customer closeness & brand strategy to name but a few!
• We embrace new and innovative research techniques as well as create our own approaches
• Our client portfolio spans the sectors – grocery, FMCG, fashion, finance, tech, homeware, travel and leisure

We have opportunities for talented Research Managers looking to lead on exciting, innovative projects and further develop their insight skills. The successful candidates will be;

• comfortable to lead mixed methodology projects of all sizes and scale, both ad hoc and ongoing programmes
• an enthusiastic qualitative moderator; who relishes in-person methodologies and keen to embrace new technologies (i.e. biometrics)
• competent with quantitative data sets, being happy to interrogate the numbers to find the big stories
• keen to build client relationships and grow existing accounts through excellent proposals and pitches that deliver our USP
• able to deliver projects to time and budget, whilst producing high quality outputs at speed
• able to deliver a strong client report, with powerful insight at the core
• a team player who can coach and motivate junior team members

You’ll love:

• our supportive, collaborative culture meaning we are stronger together
• being free to experiment in a place which enables and welcomes insatiable curiosity
• turning insight into action, creating real impact for businesses

You’ll enjoy:

• a competitive salary (Up to £50k)
• a wide variety of employee benefits and generous holiday allowance (including your birthday off!)
• flexible working – finding the balance between office and home that’s right for you
• a well-supported career development plan
• access to our wellbeing support initiatives