We are looking for a Junior Fieldwork Services Buyer to join our team based in our Wallingford (Oxon) head office.

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.

Your role:

As a Fieldwork Services Buyer, you will get the opportunity to assist all of our global research teams in obtaining and evaluating proposals with fieldwork partners from all over the world. You will work in close contact with the Fieldwork Procurement and Supply Chain managers

• Evaluating, sending, tracking and collating requests for quotations (RFQ)
• Being a first point of contact for our fieldwork suppliers
• Preparing analyses of quotations for specific markets / agencies
• Maintaining and developing critical outsourcing databases
• Obtaining and disseminating cultural learnings

What we offer:

• Full training across every level of the Market Research process
• Sponsorship to study for the CIPS Certificate in Procurement & Supply Operations qualification
• Opportunities to visit suppliers during live projects in international markets
• Scope of the role can be extended with experience to support other company outsourced services

You will be:

• Enthusiastic and inquisitive, being able to understand the variety of MMR methodologies and challenge research briefs when required
• Strong MS Excel skills.
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Professional communication skills
• Analytical mind with good attention to detail
• Negotiation experience desirable (not critical)
• Market Research experience desirable (not critical)

Please find out more by applying 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

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 in our Oxfordshire head 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.

Are you looking to build a career in Finance? Looking to work for a multi-faceted organisation that will support your study as well as provide on the job training and development?

Our Trainee Business Analyst position may just be what you are looking for!

You will work for the MMR Group supporting the global offices of MMR Research Worldwide, Healthcare Research Worldwide, Ideal Insight, Annandale Distillery and Robert Burns’ Globe Inn.

MMR Research Worldwide is an independent, global consumer and sensory research agency specialising in food, drink, personal and household care research with offices in Wallingford, London, New York, Shanghai, Singapore, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, Durban and Cali (Colombia).

Healthcare Research Worldwide specialises in designing and delivering market research for the healthcare sector and has offices in Wallingford, London, New York and Basel.

Ideal Insight, which became part of the MMR group in 2018, is a video production company based in London & New York, producing creative video and social campaigns for ambitious brands around the world.

Annandale Distillery boasts a rich history of traditional whisky production dating back to 1836, making it one of Scotland’s oldest distilleries. Formerly owned by Johnnie Walker whisky company until its closure in 1918, Annandale Distillery was reborn in November 2014, under the ownership of MMR Group, and started producing Scotch whisky once again. Annandale Distillery also owns Robert Burns’ Globe Inn, based in Dumfries, a historic pub dating back to 1612.

The role:

Sitting in the Group Finance team (a small and friendly team of 6 based in Wallingford) and working with the Group Management Accountant, the Trainee Business Analyst will assist in providing timely reports and maintaining financial controls across all businesses within the group. Helping key stakeholders understand the financial health of the business to assist them in making business decisions.

This position covers a wide variety of tasks across various Finance disciplines working for very distinct businesses within the larger group. The wide scope of the role would be perfect for anyone looking to start a career in Finance and would offer exposure to many different skills and tasks.

We are a flexible team that needs to adapt quickly to the unique requirements of the different businesses. This role would be ideal for someone who is driven and has a real desire to improve at the start of their Finance career.

Day to day responsibilities would include:

Updating and checking commissioning reports for the senior management team to review

• Work closely with internal stakeholders to provide accurate and timely reports or general financial information as needed
• Sales & cash reconciliations used to calculate the revenue journals for VAT and reporting purposes
• Project direct cost analysis to calculate any cost of sales adjustments needed
• Reconciliation of project sales invoicing to ensure clients are billed accurately and on time
• Reconciliation of Client Rebate accruals to ensure correct levels are being accounted for
• Assisting with stock, cash and financial procedure implementation and adherence
• Managing company cross charges
• Ad hoc work helping to manage and maintain data integrity of the numerous financial systems
• Ad hoc exposure to raising client invoices
• Other ad hoc finance requirements as needed

You will be:

• A highly driven and self-motivated individual looking to start a career in Finance
• Flexible, with a ‘can-do’ attitude in dealing with unique requirements of the different businesses
• A team player who’s willing to help out when needed but with the ability to work independently day to day
• Someone who picks things up quickly, can ‘think on their feet’ and likes the challenge of coming up with new ideas
• A trustworthy and open individual to help maintain positive finance relationships with the wider business
• Either actively studying or looking to start either your AAT or a related financial qualification

You will have:

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products, specifically Excel
• Excellent customer service skills for dealing with internal stakeholders
• The confidence and communication skills to engage non finance colleagues both verbally and in writing
• Excellent personal time management skills with the ability to prioritise tasks as required

It would be great if you also have:

• 6 month’s office/finance experience
• A full UK driving license
• Experience using excel specifically in a professional environment

Find our more by applying here

MMR offers an open, dynamic, varied and non-hierarchical environment, where training is offered at every level. We also offer a selection of fantastic employee benefits.

MMR is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Do you have a Computer Science or IT related qualification and are looking to grow your career in software development? Apply now to join the team as a Software Developer based in Wallingford, Oxfordshire.

MMR is an independent, global company specialising in food, drink and consumer packaged goods research. We work regularly with over 50% of the top 100 global food and drink brands. We have offices in London, Oxford, New York, Shanghai, Singapore, Mumbai, Durban and Sao Paulo and have a team of 180 highly engaged and dynamic research professionals that is multi-discipline in nature covering fields such as data sciences, marketing, insight, R&D, sensory science and psychology.

We are expanding our team and looking to recruit a Mid-level .NET Developer to join our team to assist in the design, development and maintenance of custom solutions that fulfil business and client needs. This is an exciting opportunity where you will have the chance to work on a variety of interesting new projects in a dynamic environment, whilst being well supported by a large and multi-disciplinary Data Sciences team.

We are ideally looking for candidates with 1-3 years’ software development experience. An IT related degree, or A’Level or equivalent qualification (e.g. Computer Science, Software Development) is preferable but exceptions can be made for the right individual.

As a Software Developer, you will be highly motivated, dedicated and eager to progress, with a keen interest in programming and software design and a strong aptitude for logical thinking.

In return, you will receive a competitive salary, a pleasant work environment, the opportunity to make a substantial difference in the business and the chance to learn from a highly skilled team of developers while working with new technologies and continuously improving your development skills.

Technical skills we are looking for across candidates:

Demonstrated knowledge of C#, .NET and basic SQL.

Object-oriented programming.

SOLID design principles.

Unit testing.

Familiar with the basics of ASP.NET Core web development.

Familiar with the basics of WPF and MVVM.

Familiar with version control best practices.

Basics of continuous integration.

Able to successfully gather requirements and compile user stories(issues)

Documenting work.

Ability to review code with tact.

Soft skills we are looking for:

Ability to plan effectively and deliver to deadlines.

Able to successfully gather requirements and compile user stories(issues)

Ability to clearly convey thoughts and ideas.

Positive attitude to work, with the ability to learn quickly.

Good trouble-shooting skills with the perseverance to solve problems.

Take pride in the quality of your work with good attention to detail.

Able to work productively, both autonomously and as part of a team.

Open to mentoring other developers.

Experience that would be beneficial for the role, but not required:

PostgreSql

Deploying web apps to Azure

Azure blob storage

Marten DB

Javascript

HTML,CSS

Razor Pages

Linux

Gitlab, Sourcetree

WPF and MVVM

We would encourage any interested applicants to apply regardless of how few or many of the above skills/experience they meet.

At MMR, our people are central to MMR’s success and therefore we drive a culture where each individual can thrive. Some of the ways we achieve this is by operating in an open, dynamic, varied & non-hierarchical environment, providing bespoke training through the MMR Training Academy, giving overseas secondment opportunities and by promoting our staff purely on merit.

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

MMR Research Worldwide is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Introducing Huxly

Huxly is a new brand strategy and innovation consultancy, launched in April 2018. We believe that people are complex, and great brands are simple. We are changing the way our clients build brands, with a range of innovative approaches to help our clients to understand the true complexity of their consumers. For example, our innovation teams work with sensory scientists to gain unprecedented insight into consumers’ product expectations, allowing us to develop rounded and coherent propositions for food, drink and personal care categories. The Huxly ‘pitch’ has been highly successful in 2018, leading to project wins and highly satisfied clients, and we now have big growth plans for 2019.

We are part of the MMR group, the UK’s largest privately owned market research company, and we have offices in Wallingford, London, Durban, Singapore, Shanghai, Sao Paulo and New York. Joining Huxly in early 2019 is a unique opportunity – to be part of a small, fast growing start up, backed by the strength and stability of a large global research business.

The Role: Associate Director – Branding and Innovation 

We are looking for an experienced brand strategist and innovation consultant who can lead branding, innovation and communications development projects with a group of clients. This role will be instrumental in the next stage of Huxly’s growth, and represents a great chance to be at the heart of a growing business.

The successful candidate will own a group of major clients, building relationships through high quality project work and the sharing of inspiring content.

Specific accountabilities will include:

Building relationships with target clients to increase our profile within the organization, and creating a global network of contacts who support Huxly.

Designing superb proposals, and delivering inspiring, unforgettable projects that make our clients come back to us for more work. Projects will be delivered alongside and with the support of:

Our qualitative team, who provide project management support and moderators around the world

Our sensory qual team, who provide sensory science support when making recommendations on food and drink innovation and positioning.

Our design team (internal and freelance) who help us make sure that project outputs are visually stunning

Ideal Insight, our in house videography team, who create videos to summarise project learnings and bring concepts to life.

Working with our new business communications team to ensure our content is sent out in a timely manner, to the right people in the accounts you lead.

Based in the Wallingford office, our geographical scope will be the UK, Europe and the USA. We will be building a separate team based in Singapore to handle APAC, but there will be some opportunities to support that team as the business grows.

Essential Skills/Qualities

Proven experience of leading, designing and delivering brand positioning, innovation and communications development projects

The ability to work collaboratively with teams who have different skill sets and are from different cultures

Passion for and experience in FMCG research

Excellence in proposal writing, research design and pitching

Advanced skills in client management, account development

Moderation of fieldwork (groups, depths, workshops, MROCs, etc.)

Experience of leading teams

Observation of overseas fieldwork

Report writing / delivery of presentations

Articulate/expressive/credible/easy to work with

Desirable Skills / Qualities

‘Smarts’ – the ability to wow your clients with incisive thinking

An ability to command an audience and present confidently in front of clients

Ability to travel internationally

Interested? Please click here to apply and one of our team will be in touch

About Huxly and MMR

Huxly is a small, informal and highly supportive team, and can provide a highly entertaining working environment. We’re also very proud to be part of MMR. 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