Creative Innovations Specialist – Market Research

In a Nutshell:

• Dreams big.
• Leads with conviction.
• Contagious enthusiasm.

Consumer Research is evolving – Nova, our innovation hub for the MMR Group (MMR Research Worldwide, HRW Healthcare Worldwide, Huxly, Cubo, Ideal Insight) ensures we do too.

With the rise of AI, smart speakers, AR and the Internet Of Things, to name a few, there are ever-increasing ways technology can add value when capturing, interpreting and utilising consumer insight.

We’re geared up to inject dynamism into innovation; being bold and fearless when pushing technologies and methods, whilst using Nova expertise to ensure it’s meaningful and better at predicting consumer behaviour.

The Nova team are in search of a Creative Innovations Specialist - not just a Market Researcher, but someone who is passionate about challenging the status quo and not being afraid to experiment with the application of tech advances. We are looking for someone who can inspire fellow researchers, analysts and consultants; leading with trust, conviction and positivity.

Once you are here you will:

• Investigate new tech that has the potential to transform the consumer insight world
• Dream up new ways to spark and distill insight; inspiring teams to meet client needs better, bolder and with more conviction
• Design, scope, and run projects that helps us tackle our innovation challenges.
• Facilitate synthesis of wider issues to generate insights and opportunities.
• Go beyond just ‘managing’ internal and external stakeholders, both effectively and sensitively, but form trusted relationships, even friendships.
• Work alongside like-minded individuals within the Nova team and across other teams like data sciences, commercial development and global online solutions.

Core experience and mindset:

• Well grounded experience in the research world (either agency or client side, quant or qual)
• Has an aptitude and is well versed with the latest technological advances.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication and strong storytelling skills.
• Ability to manage partnerships and relationships with both suppliers and internal & external stakeholders.
• Experience designing and producing engaging content in different media formats (podcasts, films, activities, blogs, workshops, offsites, etc).
• Excellent project management skills, accurately forecasting and delivering projects on time and budget even within challenging circumstances

Big pluses:

• Experience structuring, guiding, and facilitating transformative efforts within organizations.
• Interpreting complex, conceptual data and producing commercially focused summaries to meet project needs.
• Familiarity with Design Thinking, Innovation, Change Management, and/or Creativity topics

About the MMR Group

MMR offers an open, diverse 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.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please click here to apply and one of our team will be in touch. 

MMR is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Are you a creative, confident Producer/PM? We are searching for someone and work on shoots for our rapidly growing creative energy, with the potential to become a videographer long term.

ABOUT US: www.idealinsight.co.uk/video

Ideal Insight is a market leading creative agency that produces video, photography and social campaigns for some of the UK’s leading brands.

We have doubled growth year on year and are on track to do this same throughout 2019. Ideal Insight has also recently been taken over by leading global research agency MMR, who are further looking to grow Ideal Insight’s offering.

Ideal Insight are also official subcontractors to Google and have an outstanding national reputation for premium quality and exceptional visual content.

With the expansion into the US and other new markets we will need a producer/project manager in the London office to help manage the work flow.

You will run and manage the US/Italian and UK studio executing projects on brief and on time across the II business. Travel maybe required – make sure you have your passport!

In this role you will:

• Produce and support on large scale shoots and projects
• Manage shoot costs and logistics adhering to 3^rd party costs
• Support on high value shoots liaising with clients and crew on set
• Play a pivotal role with creative/pre -production on high value shoots
• Act as a sounding board for the creative teams in editing and creative development process
• Establish external relationships for kit suppliers, freelancers and locations

To do this you will need to have:

• confidence in your ability
• strong communication and people skills
• editorial judgement
• presentation and pitching skills
• negotiation skills
• strong time and resource management skills
• organisation and planning skills
• creative ability
• the ability to cope well under pressure
• commercial awareness and a good head for figures
• self-motivation and the ability to motivate others
• leadership skills.
• If you happen to speak Italian then that’s a bonus!

You will get:

• Tonnes of autonomy and great experience
• A max starting salary of 30 00K p.a.
• Bonus Scheme
• Great working environment and company culture
• Being part of a rapidly growing and evolving creative agency

If you are interested in this opportunity please click here and our team will be in touch. 

Ideal Insights is an Equal Opportunities Employer

This is a genuinely exciting opportunity for a Sales/business development professional to work for a ground-breaking agency helping to shape the future of innovation.

Cubo is a new type of innovation agency, a joint venture between Food Innovation Solutions (Culinary concept and product development) and MMR (with its global research expertise).

Cubo blends culinary creativity (the ability to make amazing products ourselves), with consumer input (placing customers at the heart of innovation) and a strong commercial edge (to ensure what we help create succeeds in market). We’re seeing success with clients of all sizes, from start-ups to the world’s biggest corporates. We’re breaking down innovation barriers and internal silos, opening-up new sector opportunities and bringing a truly agile, creative and inspiring approach to NPD. It’s creativity with a commercial core!

You’ll take on responsibility for the identification and conversion of new business opportunities for Cubo and then developing and growing those new accounts.

The role will include:

Proactively seeking new Cubo business opportunities:

Maximising all potential Cubo business opportunities:

Developing new accounts:

Supporting Cubo success, best practice and continuous improvement:

So what about you?

You will be a Sales/BD professional who loves what they do – and is passionate about what we do! Alongside demonstratable experience in a similar role we would look for you to display the following:

Behavioral Characteristics:

Technical skills:

Full training on the ‘Cubo way’ and the research and consultancy toolkit will of course be provided, both via your induction and direct on-the-job.

About MMR

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.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please click here to apply and one of our team will be in touch. 

MMR is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Want to help bring products to life? Looking for a varied, fast paced role which will enable you to be both creative and analytical?

We are looking for exceptional Graduates/Masters/PhD holders to join our team as Trainee Research Executives and build a career in Consumer and Sensory Market Research. These entry level roles will be based in either our London or Wallingford office.

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 18^th 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.

We are looking for individuals to start as soon as possible in our Wallingford office. We are also recruiting individuals who are finishing their studies in 2020 for a start date in late Summer, these opportunities are available in both our London and Wallingford office.

You would join our team of over 300 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…

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:

• Designing and organising fieldwork both in the UK and overseas (so plenty of opportunity to travel!)
• Creating questionnaires against client objectives
• Analysing data (both quantitatively and qualitatively)
• Creating insightful presentations

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 science/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 either our London or Wallingford office when not travelling.

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.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please click here to apply and one of our team will be in touch. 

MMR is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

This is a genuinely unique (we’re not just saying that!) and exciting opportunity for a Senior Insights or Innovation professional to work for a ground‐breaking agency whilst helping to shape the future ofinnovation on the client side for Princes in Liverpool. It really does represent the best of both worlds,working for an agency with creativity at its core, but embedded deep into a client organisation.

Cubo is a new type of innovation agency, a joint venture between Food Innovation Solutions (Innovation strategy, culinary concept and product development) and MMR (with its global researchexpertise).

Cubo blends culinary creativity (the ability to make amazing products ourselves), with consumer input (placing customers at the heart of innovation) and a strong commercial edge (to ensure what we helpcreate succeeds in market). We’re seeing success with clients of all sizes, from start‐ups to the world’sbiggest corporates. We’re breaking down innovation barriers and internal silos, opening‐up new sectoropportunities and bringing a truly agile, creative and inspiring approach to NPD. It’s creativity with a commercial core!

Cubo has been selected by Princes as their out‐sourced innovation partner.

This isn’t a normal agency<>client partnership, instead Cubo will take responsibility for support creating and shaping a wide range of innovation streams, taking projects from the ideation stage through to commercialisation.

You’ll work alongside the clients own marketing, R&D and commercial teams, but lead the innovation process, leveraging the culinary and creative skills that exist within Cubo, the research skills frompartner agency MMR and accessing third party partners as relevant.

Princes have ambitious aims for their innovation. Moving from a traditional stage‐gate style process to something much more disruptive and agile. Not just about innovating via line extensions, but potentially bringing new brands to life and pushing their product range into new and exciting areas. The ambitions are big, and the partnership is intended to reduce the constraints often present within a typical corporate environment – this is not about more of the same, so be prepared to challenge and to push!

The partnership is brand new, and will evolve over the next 12 months, hence the role itself is somewhat fluid and shapeable by the individual lucky enough to fill it! A few aspects are in placethough;

• The intention is to bring consumers right to the heart of innovation, so an online community will sit at the centre of things, providing always‐on access to consumers and enabling a huge range of cost‐effective and rapid research to be conducted in real‐time at all stages of the innovation process
• You will be supported (onsite) by a more junior Cubo employee (already in place). They will run the community and coordinate research and other activities, but you’ll very much lead the program, be the face of Cubo, and be responsible for growing; the junior employee, the profile of Cubo, and the new approach to innovation within Princes.
• You’ll report to and be supported directly by both the Co‐founder of Cubo (who will be actively involved in the relationship side of things and on‐site in Liverpool once a week), the remainder of the Cubo team and of course the resources of the FIS & MMR Groups.
• This role is Liverpool based (in the Liver Building itself) It will come with an attractive salary and benefits package, commensurate with the experience and skillset that you bring to the role

As the role is unique, we’re open to applications from a range of different people. If pushed we’d say the ideal is for an experienced Market Researcher/food innovator with:

• Some client‐side experience in an insight, marketing or innovation role
• Some agency side experience, with insights/research an advantage
• A strong knowledge of innovation and how insights can be used to help shape this
• A huge amount of enthusiasm and a self‐starting mentality – the role and the partnership have a massive opportunity to be shaped and forged
• A passion for food and drink
• A willingness (and urge) to want to challenge the status quo, to try new things, to learn quickly and to be creative in your thinking, yet practical in your application

Full training on the ‘Cubo way’ and the research and consultancy toolkit will of course be provided, both via your induction and direct on‐the‐job.

To find out more about this role please apply here and one of our team aill be in touch.

CUBO is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Looking to grow and develop your career and skills in Sensory Research? Then this may be the opportunity you are looking for...

We’re searching for a Trainee Sensory Panel Leader to build their career here at MMR.

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 well-known brands to help create, shape and develop products and packs.

We’re 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 Oxford and Reading. We also have offices in London, New York, Shanghai, Singapore, Mumbai, Sao Paulo and Durban.

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.

The successful individual will support the Sensory Panel Manager, ensuring the smooth running of the panel sessions, and assisting in their day-to-day management. You will develop the necessary skills to lead panel sessions, to create, proposals, write client reports efficiently, and become a proficient Panel Leader.

The role is based in our client site in Slough, but you will have the full support and training from an MMR perspective as well.

You will support the Sensory Panel Manager, ensuring the smooth running of the panel sessions, and assisting in their day-to-day management. You will develop the necessary skills to lead panel sessions, and become a proficient Panel Leader.

The role includes planning and running panel sessions, screening and training panels and generating and analyzing panel data.

The successful candidate will have:

• A real passion for working in sensory research
• Computer literate – be competent in Word, Excel and email. Training will be given in the relevant software packages
• A Bachelor’s degree, ideally in a relevant field, such as Food Science, Sensory Science, Experimental Psychology and Sociology
• Ideally you'll have some experience of working with expert trained sensory panels or have moderated qualitative groups

To find out more please apply here and one of our team will be in touch.

About MMR:

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 280 highly engaged and dynamic research professionals that is multi-disciplinary in nature 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.

We have built a reputation for providing innovative statistical analysis and techniques, coupled with optimal research design consultancy that successfully delivers against our clients’ specific business objectives.

MMR Research Worldwide is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Are you a senior, commercially focused, sensory expert looking for an exciting next step in your career? Do you thrive in dynamic environments and enjoy both delivering fantastic work and developing strong client relationships?

Role

MMR Research Worldwide are looking for a Global Head of Sensory Research (quant and qual). This new role, whilst a detailed and strong understanding of sensory panel work within a Market research environment, is a strongly commercial role focused on driving the scale and development of MMR’s sensory operations globally.

We’ve already built a great reputation in the sensory area (stretching wider into product research and development), and we’re one of very few sensory players with panels in different markets (currently US, UK, China and Singapore, but with the potential to expand if demand exists). We want to capitalise on this advantage, together with our ability to offer the right sensory solution for our clients’ individual needs*, with the aim of becoming the dominant player in the global sensory space.

Due to the skillsets we envisage the successful candidate will have, we would like them to also take on a role heading-up our sensory qual team (this is a real point of advantage for MMR in the market, and a central part of our consumer research growth strategy).

* We’re not constrained by operating a single profiling model, we can run DA and Spectrum style profiling, as well as having a whole host of alternative data collection methods up our sleeve!

Global Head of Sensory (primary responsibility)

We need an individual who can build and execute a revolutionarily sensory strategy, one that challenges existing market norms and status quo, and who can provide a compelling vision for growth. The business is prepared to invest to provide what’s required to achieve our agreed aims, and this individual will be expected to lead the sales and marketing effort, driving demand both within existing clients (expanding out) and finding new clients to step-change our sensory revenue over time. We expect to grow not only our own internal ad-hoc panel base, but also win more contracts from clients looking to out-source their sensory panel delivery.

There is excellent infrastructure in place to support this role, with a newly formed commercial team providing access to significant senior level sales resource and high-end marketing capability. We have a large team of seasoned sensory professionals that ensure our quality of delivery is maintained at the highest levels, as such, whilst there will be a role in defined client needs and designing solution to address these, the core focus of this role will not be hands-on delivery – that’s already well catered for (albeit you’ll need to ensure the team is structured, resourced and trained effectively).

From day one you’ll start with a best in world capability, which includes agile and out-of-the-lab methods, ensuring a firm foundation from which to build a more transformative strategy.

The role will dovetail with the wider MMR eco-system, with sensory being a vital and integral part of our wider consumer service offering, all designed around the over-arching principal of helping clients to unlock the sensory power held within their brands. It’s an exciting and ‘of-the-moment’ positioning, and one that’s really resonating with clients. We believe that the granularity and pinpoint direction that we can bring to the table through the use of sensory data can be a real growth driver for MMR in this space.

The role will report into the Global MD with potenrial down-the-line for the role to be Board level. It will be massively high profile both within MMR but also into the industry – where you will be expected to become (with the support of others) MMR’s voice in the sensory community (aiming to drive perceptions of MMR as leading the way in changing the world of sensory).

Local sensory leads and other senior sensory personnel will report directly into this role.

Global Team Lead for Sensory Qual (secondary responsibility)

Our highly skilled, globally based, sensory qual team feel a close connection back into the sensory community, so it’s felt that combining a Sensory Qual Team Lead role with the Head of Sensory role makes complete sense, both motivating for the team, and providing another string to the bow when talking to clients about sensory as the two can very easily be packaged-up into a seriously compelling offer.

The main aspects of this role will be based around representing Sensory Qual requirements into the Board, setting strategy (alongside the existing Global Head), taking ownership for ensuring that career development plans are in place, and ensuring that resourcing of projects is owned within the team. In essence it’s about being a figurehead for the team and ensuring that their personal and career development is given a high priority.

This is not a role for someone who wants to focus on running the day-to-day operation of a sensory team. This is a role for someone who wants to be at the forefront of driving change, of delivering edgier, thought-provoking messages to clients, and owning the development of MMR as the most exciting, forward-thinking player in the world of sensory.

Whilst our preference would be for the role to be UK based, we will consider applications from people based anywhere in the world. We understand this is a tough role to fill, so compensation with be commensurate with the individuals experience and skillset, and will include a healthy base package, with the opportunity to earn significantly more if growth can be driven strongly.

For more information please apply here and  member of our recruitment team will be in touch.

About MMR

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 280 highly engaged and dynamic research professionals that is multi-disciplinary in nature 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.

We have built a reputation for providing innovative statistical analysis and techniques, coupled with optimal research design consultancy that successfully delivers against our clients’ specific business objectives.

MMR Research Worldwide is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

MMR Research Worldwide is looking for an ambitious, energetic and self-motivated Associate Director - Market Research to join our growing London research team to help manage and drive growth on global client accounts within the FMCG industry.

This is a client-facing role within the research team, with the primary aim of developing client accounts by growing, managing and maintaining strong client relationships. Key responsibilities within the role will include proactively developing client relationships, advising on appropriate research design for various client challenges, impactful proposal writing and taking responsibility for quality of project delivery. This means adding value to debrief presentations via data interpretation and commercial awareness skills to ensure actionable results consistently land with stakeholders. The focus of business development will be in strengthening immediate client relationships, extending relationships within the client company beyond immediate contacts as well as helping develop brand new relationships

Requirements

As a hands-on researcher with sector knowledge, commitment to excellence in delivery, a proactive working style and assured confidence, you will be able to add real insight at debriefs and have a track record of developing client accounts. Experience in, and enjoyment of management is essential as you will be required to help coach and mentor more junior team members. This coaching and mentoring aspect will require you to build a complete understanding of the full project cycle in order to be able to help develop others.

Agency experience (ideally ad hoc) is essential for this role. Much of MMR’s work is within the food, drink, household care and personal care industry so relevant experience of this sector is advantageous and product testing experience is ideal. Experience within both small and large agencies would be beneficial. Quant experience is essential and qual is desirable (though not necessarily as a practitioner). It is also vital that you have strong self-management and communications skills.

To find out more please apply here and one of our team will be in touch.

Benefits

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 280 highly engaged and dynamic research professionals that is multi-disciplinary in nature 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. We have built a reputation for providing innovative statistical analysis and techniques, coupled with optimal research design consultancy that successfully delivers against our clients’ specific business objectives.

MMR Research Worldwide is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Are you 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 South African team as a Senior Project Assistant, based in our Durban (Umhlanga) office.

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. This role will be based in our Durban office supporting our global headquarters in the UK (Oxfordshire) and offices in London, New York, Shanghai, Singapore, Mumbai and Sao Paulo.

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

This teams’ role is to manage all operational aspects of project delivery for online projects. It is an internally facing role focused on effective and efficient delivery of projects commissioned by the Global Research Teams.

The Senior Project Assistant will not only will take overall responsibility for project execution from the point of commission to delivery but also provide some support, mentoring and training to the more junior members of this team.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Project setup and ownership of the Resource Planner, Control sheet, information sharing across relevant teams and raising supplier POs when needed
• Ownership of the survey link – ensuring the survey accurately reflects the questionnaire, seeking help from Research Associates to thoroughly check the link
• Managing the provision of translations where relevant
• Monitoring the project during field ensuring quotas and timings are met and raising any issues or delays to the Project Owner
• Ensuring tables created are in line with the tab spec, seeking help from Research Associates to thoroughly check the tables
• Assisting in preparing toplines and the debrief, ensuring all data entered is 100% correct, seeking help from Research Associates to thoroughly check deliverables
• Liaising with all relevant departments to ensure smooth project progress
• Keeping tabs on timings and budget and flagging any issues to the Research Team if anything is going off-plan
• To support, mentor and train junior members of this team as required

Skills and Qualities

To be successful in this more senior position you will need to be able to demonstrate:

• Previous experience within an ad hoc agency environment essential
• Quantitative experience essential and exposure to qualitative beneficial
• Depth of experience in research project management with sensory science experience an advantage
• Strong organisational & time management skills required
• Strong communication skills & the ability to work effectively with teams is essential
• Solid Microsoft office skills – including PowerPoint and Excel
• A high level of numeracy
• Willingness to travel across Africa (and globally) to observe and conduct fieldwork essential
• Experience working in a regional (ideally Africa) role an advantage
• Experience in a similar role would be an advantage
• local African languages would be a bonus!

To find out more please apply here 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 looking for an exciting next step in your career? Would you enjoy working on high profile global accounts within the FMCG industry?

We are looking for energetic, self-motivated and passionate individuals to join our South African team as Project Assistants, based in our Durban office.

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. This role will be based in our Durban (Umhlanga) office supporting our global headquarters in the UK (Oxfordshire) and offices in London, New York, Shanghai, Singapore, Mumbai and Sao Paulo.

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

This teams’ role is to manage all operational aspects of project delivery for online projects. It is an internally facing role focused on effective and efficient delivery of projects commissioned by the Global Research Teams.

Project Assistants (Online) will take overall responsibility for project execution from the point of commission and ensure the project is executed according to the specification set out by the Global Research Teams.

Specific responsibilities include:

Skills and Qualities

Whilst this is a junior role candidate will need to be able to demonstrate:

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

Fieldwork Services Analyst

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. This role will be based in our Durban (Umhlanga) office supporting our global headquarters in the UK (Oxfordshire) and offices in London, New York, Shanghai, Singapore, Mumbai and Sao Paulo.

You’ll be working in the supply chain function alongside our team of over 280 highly engaged, multi-disciplined employees (dynamic research professionals, sensory experts and data scientists); a diverse bunch, with backgrounds in R&D, insight, marketing, sensory science, data sciences and psychology.

The work is varied driving insight into our business, innovative ways of working for our future business, all while working with our passionate, friendly teams across the globe.

Your role:

As a Fieldwork Services Analyst you will get the opportunity to assist all of our global research teams in working with our data collection partners from all over the world.

You would be responsible for compiling and analysing fieldwork supplier data (primarily cost-based), working with data from all MMR business units, co-ordinated centrally through the UK. As well as working on stand-alone analyses, there is responsibility for a number of ongoing reports and databases. Working on initiatives to support process improvement is also a part of this role with opportunity to identify more efficient ways of working and share ideas on improved agility for the business This role is highly flexible to meet our needs in an ever changing market place.

Key tasks include:

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 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

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.