Insight Manager

Want to work for an award-winning agency with industry-leading approaches to flexible working, a holistic benefits package and a creative culture? Keen to progress quickly? And influence world-class products before they hit the shelves?

Welcome to Blue Yonder!

As an Insight Manager at Blue Yonder, you’ll lead multiple complex research projects, build trusted client relationships, and deliver high-quality, commercially focused insights. You’ll combine strong project leadership with entrepreneurial thinking, shaping approaches, driving innovation, and ensuring excellence at every stage. As a key contact for clients, you’ll play a pivotal role in growing accounts, crafting winning proposals, and supporting the team to deliver work that reflects Blue Yonder’s values of Partnership, Positivity, Entrepreneurship and Authenticity.

About you:

You will be an experienced research professional with a strong track record of managing multiple projects independently
Confident in client management, able to build trusted relationships and lead meetings and debriefs with minimal senior support
Skilled in both qualitative and quantitative research, with strong analytical ability and an eye for commercially relevant insights
Highly organised, comfortable juggling deadlines, project admin, financials and team coordination
A strong communicator clear, engaging and able to craft compelling proposals, analysis plans and outputs
A supportive team player who enjoys coaching others, sharing knowledge and contributing to a positive, solution-focused culture
Curious, innovative and proactive, keen to explore new methodologies, tools and ways of working
Someone who naturally embodies Blue Yonder’s values of Partnership, Positivity, Entrepreneurship and Authenticity

If you would like to apply for this role, please fill out the application form below. Thank you for your interest.

What you’ll be doing:

Managing multiple complex research projects end-to-end, ensuring efficient delivery, strong team coordination and adherence to processes in place
Leading questionnaire design, discussion guides and other research materials with minimal senior input
Overseeing fieldwork processes, ensuring smooth logistics, accurate scripting, and high-quality qualitative moderation and analysis
Being the main day-to-day client contact, nurturing relationships, identifying opportunities to grow accounts and role-modelling excellent client service
Leading analysis across qual and quant projects, shaping clear, commercially focused stories and delivering high-quality reports and debriefs
Taking responsibility for project finances, including costings, revenue management, accurate reporting and ensuring projects run within budget
Writing complex proposals that meet client needs and showcase Blue Yonder’s approaches
Line managing, supporting and coaching junior team members, delegating effectively and contributing to a collaborative, positive team culture.
Driving innovation, exploring new tools, developing commercially viable ideas and keeping the team informed of emerging trends.

A bit about Blue Yonder:

Blue Yonder Research was founded by Jonathan Million 20+ years ago. Chief Innovation Officer, and lifetime entrepreneur, Jonathan is involved in pioneering innovations day-to-day, with 10% of the company’s net profits being invested into innovation, to create new insight tech and methods to support client needs. For example, our very own research tech button, Clickscape®, which was proudly patented in 2023.

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 2024 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 in 2024, after winning break-through Agency of the Year in 2020, and we were finalists for Agency of the Year in 2020, 2021, and 2022. And in 2025, 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!

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.

Job details:

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

Job Type: Full-time

Schedule: 40 hours per week (Monday – Friday)

Salary: £36,500 per year (based on experience)

Education: A degree in a relevant field (e.g. social sciences, marketing, business) can be helpful, but is not essential, we’re open to candidates with diverse backgrounds and relevant skills and experience.

Experience: 5+ years relevant experience

Ability to commute/relocate: Leeds, LS15 8GB – reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Reference ID: Insight Manager

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