Are you a researcher looking for an exciting next step in your career? Do you enjoy working on high profile global accounts within the FMCG industry?

We are looking for an energetic, self-motivated and passionate individual to join our central London team as a Senior Research Executive.

MMR is an independent, global consumer and sensory research agency specialising in food, drink, personal and household care research. This means that when you join us, you’ll have the chance to work with a number of well-known brands to help create, shape and develop products and packs.

We are global leaders, guiding innovation for our clients – partnering with over 50% of the top 100 global food and drink brands. Our head office is in Oxfordshire, with offices in London, New York, Shanghai, Singapore, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, Cali (Colombia) and Durban. This role is based in our Central London office, right by Blackfriars station.

Our team of over 280 highly engaged, multi-disciplined employees are primarily dynamic research professionals, sensory experts and data scientists. We’re a diverse bunch, with backgrounds in R&D, insight, marketing, sensory science, data sciences and psychology.

No two projects are ever the same, often involving exciting innovations, varied methods and international markets. It’s a great opportunity to challenge and add value to client decision making, all while working with our passionate, friendly teams across the globe.

Role

As a Senior Research Executive, you will take the lead on running market research projects, involving client liaison and project management from research design through to final debrief presentations.

Responsibilities include:

• Designing and organising fieldwork in the UK and overseas
• Creating questionnaires against client objectives
• Analysing data (both quantitatively and qualitatively)
• Creating insightful presentations

The work covers a range of ad hoc projects, typically involving quantitative and qualitative research, and both traditional and online fieldwork in the UK and internationally. With MMR’s focus on developing new and better research methods and sophisticated analysis techniques, the role offers the opportunity to gain experience of several novel and exciting approaches to conducting research and interpreting data.

Skills and Qualities

• Previous experience within an ad hoc agency environment essential
• Quantitative experience essential and exposure to qualitative beneficial
• Experience of involvement in report writing essential
• Ability to tell a story from the data is essential
• Strong organisational & time management skills required
• Strong communication skills & the ability to work effectively as a team essential
• Experience within FMCG beneficial

To find out more please apply here

MMR offers an open, dynamic, varied and non-hierarchical environment, where bespoke MMR Academy training is offered at every level. We also offer exciting secondment opportunities at our other global locations, as well as a selection of fantastic employee benefits.

MMR delivers a class leading set of marketing science tools and approaches, many of which are proprietary to MMR. We are endorsed by our global client base for our agility, technical expertise and willingness to adapt research solutions to directly focus on specific client challenges. We’ve built a reputation of providing innovative statistical analysis and techniques, coupled with optimal research design consultancy, that successfully delivers against our clients’ specific business objectives.

MMR is an Equal Opportunity Employer

MMR Research Worldwide is an independent, global company specialising in food, drink and consumer packaged goods research. We work regularly with 75% of the top 25 global food, beverage and personal care brands. We have offices in London, Oxford, New York, Shanghai, Singapore, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, Cali and Durban and have a team of over 300 highly engaged and dynamic research professionals covering fields such as R&D, insight, marketing, sensory science, data sciences and psychology.

MMR delivers a class leading set of marketing science tools and approaches, many of which are proprietary to MMR. We are endorsed by our global client base for our agility and technical expertise and willingness to adapt research solutions to directly focus on specific client challenges.

Alongside MMR we also have further brands such as Huxly (our brand consultancy with a sensory lens), Cubo (our product development brand), Ideal Insight (a video production company) and even Annandale (a Whiskey distillery).

MMR offers an open, dynamic, varied and non-hierarchical environment, where bespoke MMR Academy training is offered at every level. We also offer exciting secondment opportunities at our other global locations, as well as a selection of fantastic employee benefits.

The Role

We are looking for a dynamic in-house Talent Acquisition Executive to join MMR Research Worldwide’s HR team.

You will work in collaboration with the Talent Acquisition Manager on our ongoing quest to discover fantastic global talent for each of our regions and companies, helping build a strong employment brand and delivering a fantastic recruitment experience to all candidates and hiring managers.

You will recruit for a variety of roles across various business and office locations, with the primary focus being our largest entity – MMR. The roles are often challenging – with very specific skill sets, and our focus is on quality of candidates rather than volume recruitment.

This role is based in our Head Office in Wallingford, Oxfordshire.

We are happy to hear from candidates with both agency and inhouse backgrounds.

Responsibilities are:

• Manage the end to end recruitment life cycle from initial job brief to offer for the junior level roles across the global MMR RW business and brands using the Workable Talent Acquisition platform
• Use direct methods to attract and source junior level top talent across all departments and roles
• For your allocated roles manage a range of recruitment channels including our careers page, LinkedIn, job boards, social media and internal networks
• Identify passive talent and build talent pools for current and future vacancies
• Conduct initial interviews and coordinate subsequent interview stages
• Act as the single point of contact for candidates and provide an exceptional candidate experience
• Manage the offer process whilst minimising the risk of any dropouts
• Develop strong working relationships with hiring managers and proactively manage expectations
• Complete administrative tasks involved in recruitment

You should be:

• An experienced recruiter – having covered a variety of roles from brief to hire
• Extremely organised, in order to handle all day-to-day operational tasks super efficiently
• Ability to work flexibly and in a fast-paced environment
• Proactive and forward thinking
• Have strong communication and relationship building skills, internally and externally
• Excellent IT Skills including MS Office Suite

If you would like to join the team, please apply here!

We look forward to hearing from you!

MMR is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Want to help bring products to life? Looking for a varied, fast paced role which will enable you to use your creative flair?

We are looking for an exceptional Graduate to join our team as a Qualitative Trainee Research Executive and build a career in Consumer Market Research.

MMR is an independent, global consumer and sensory research agency specialising in food, drink, personal and household care research. This means that when you join us, you’ll have the chance to work with a number of well-known brands to help create, shape and develop products and packs.

We are global leaders, guiding innovation for our clients – partnering with over 50% of the top 100 global food and drink brands. Our head office is in a beautiful 18th century barn in Wallingford - a picturesque village in between cultural Oxford and lively Reading. We also have busy offices in London, New York, Shanghai, Singapore, Mumbai, Sao Paulo and Durban.

This entry level role will be based in our Wallingford office and we are looking for this individual to start as soon as possible.

You would join our team of over 280 highly engaged, multi-disciplined employees, who are primarily dynamic research professionals, sensory experts and data scientists. We’re a diverse bunch, with backgrounds in R&D, insight, marketing, sensory science, data sciences and psychology.

No two projects are ever the same, often involving exciting innovations, varied methods and international markets. It’s a great opportunity to challenge and add value to client decision making, all while working with our passionate, friendly teams across the globe.

The opportunity…

MMR’s qualitative footprint is expanding, especially in terms of Sensory Qual Research, and we are looking for a Qualitative Trainee Research Executive to join this team. This role will be responsible assisting with the execution of fieldwork, helping with interpretation of information and report writing. You will assist senior qualitative researchers to ensure that the research design, analysis and interpretation of results fulfils clients’ needs.

Trainee Research Executive’s get the opportunity to work across a number of well-known international brands helping to manage projects across all stages of the project cycle working within a dynamic, fast paced team environment. 

Responsibilities include:

Benefits include…

• Full training across every level of the Market Research process
• Sponsorship to study for the MRS Advanced Certificate in Market & Social Research qualification (an industry recognised qualification).
• Clearly defined path of progression
• Potential international opportunities as you progress within your career (job swaps/secondments)

You will…

• Have a degree (or higher) in a social science related or analytical discipline (ideally a 2.1 or above) or similar experience/qualifications
• Ideally, you’ll possess some relevant work experience, industrial placement experience would also be beneficial
• Have strong organisational, time management and self-management skills
• Be happy to travel both nationally and internationally on a regular basis- expect lots of opportunities to travel and explore new countries
• Excel in working in a team environment, and relish the challenges that brings
• Possess great communication skills (including fluent written/spoken English)
• Be happy to be based in our Wallingford office when not travelling.

Apply here to find out more and one of our team will be in touch.

MMR offers an open, dynamic, varied and non-hierarchical environment, where bespoke MMR Academy training is offered at every level. We also offer exciting secondment opportunities at our other global locations, as well as a selection of fantastic employee benefits.

MMR delivers a class leading set of marketing science tools and approaches, many of which are proprietary to MMR. We are endorsed by our global client base for our agility, technical expertise and willingness to adapt research solutions to directly focus on specific client challenges. We’ve built a reputation of providing innovative statistical analysis and techniques, coupled with optimal research design consultancy, that successfully delivers against our clients’ specific business objectives.

MMR is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Are you a qualitative researcher looking for an exciting next step in your career? Do you enjoy working on high profile global accounts within the FMCG industry?

Role

We are looking for an exceptional qualitative researcher who is energetic, innovative and enthusiastic individual to join our dedicated qualitative team as a Qualitative Research Manager to be based either in our Oxfordshire head office or our Central London Blackfriars office.

Our specialist qualitative team work across many of our account teams to lend qualitative weight to projects at all stages of the project cycle. Key responsibilities will include planning individual projects from start to finish, being hands on in terms of fieldwork (moderating workshops/focus groups/IDIs etc), client liaison and report writing. Experience of and an interest in online qualitative research would also be highly desirable.

As well as offering a wide range of both traditional and more creative techniques, MMR has developed unique qualitative approaches that helps clients create and shape detailed product briefs right at the start of the innovation process. One approach, called EROS brings together the clients R&D and marketing teams, MMR’s qualitative, sensory and product experts and creative, sensorially articulate consumers. It really plays to our strengths and has proven very popular with clients, and is definitely one of the reasons why the qual function’s grown so strongly.

As many of our projects are multinational, this role also provides a great opportunity to travel internationally and work across different cultures all over the world.

Essential Skills/Qualities

• Previous experience within qualitative research (in a market research environment) both face to face and online
• Passion for and experience in FMCG research
• Proposal writing/research design
• Strong client management skills essential
• Moderation of fieldwork (groups, depths, workshops, online qual, etc)
• Observation of overseas fieldwork
• Report writing/delivery of presentations
• Articulate/expressive/credible/easy to work with

Desirable Skills / Qualities

• Recent agency experience
• Line Management experience is desirable
• Product testing experience
• Ability to travel internationally

If you would like to join the team, please apply here

MMR Research Worldwide is an Equal Opportunities Employer.