Senior Insight Executive – Qualitative

The role

Want to work for an award-winning agency with industry-leading approaches to flexible and hybrid working, a holistic benefits package and a creative and authentic culture? Where you can develop your career, play to your strengths, and progress quickly? And where you can work in partnership with world class clients to really make a difference to their innovations and new products, before they hit the shelves?

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Welcome to Blue Yonder!

We’re looking for a Senior Insight Executive to join our specialist Qualitative team. You’ll have 2-3 years’ experience in qualitative research and be a capable moderator. If you haven’t worked in R&D research before, that’s not a problem as we’ll give you all the training you need. However, you’ll have an eye for detail, as you help the development of new products, working closely with our clients to guide them to maximise their chances of success. The work we do lies behind the taste, look, formulation packaging and promotion of brands we all use and buy every day.

You’ll manage multiple projects, working alongside a Director, with responsibility across the project lifecycle, from screener and discussion guide development, to conducting fieldwork, analysing and report writing, and involvement in the final debrief. You’ll also work closely with our Video:lab team to produce high impact video edits – short video stories highlighting the key insights from your work, to drive real impact with clients.

We work across the UK and internationally, with clients across multiple categories, from personal care to laundry, food and drink, and consumer healthcare. There may be opportunities for international travel, depending on the projects you’re working on.

You’ll ensure processes flow smoothly, and that qualitative moderation is top-notch. Hosting sessions, leading online discussions, and penning insightful summaries will be part of your day-to-day. Yet, it doesn’t end there. Clients will look to you as their primary touchpoint, appreciating your commitment to responsiveness and flexibility. You won’t just be their contact but their partner, understanding their business intricacies and advocating for their needs.

The Senior Insight Executive role will involve:

  • Project management
  • Qualitative fieldwork and moderation
  • Project deliverables and presentation writing
  • Client relations and management

About you

You’re fascinated by people and why they behave and think the way they do. You’re curious, creative, keen to learn, and passionate about developing new ideas and running with them. You love a challenge and thrive on working in a fast-paced and innovative environment.

You will have 2-3 years’ relevant work experience in qualitative market research. Key is your ability to be proactive, personable, tenacious, organised, and detail-orientated.

A bit about Blue Yonder:

Blue Yonder 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 patented in 2023 and is the only device globally to capture moments as they happen.

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 a recent 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 after winning breakthrough agency of the year in 2020, and we were finalist for Agency of the Year in 2020, 2021 and 2022. And in 2024, 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!

We’re always looking for great people, so if this isn‘t quite the right role for you, get in touch anyway – as we grow, we’ll have more vacancies across our teams. Sometimes we even create a brand-new role for the right person, so if you like the sound of Blue Yonder, get in touch and let’s see what we can do!

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.

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

Job details:

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £35,000 per year (salary dependant on experience)

Education: Bachelor’s degree or similar (preferred), CIPD

Experience: 2-3 years relevant work experience

Schedule: 40 hours per week (Monday – Friday)

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

Reference ID: Qual Senior Insight Executive 2024

Supplemental pay types:

Company profit share scheme

Vacancy benefits:

  • Career development & promotion opportunities
  • Annual profit share
  • Pay reviews twice a year
  • 22 days holiday (plus public holidays), increasing each year up to a maximum of 25 days
  • Your birthday off work (no-one wants to work on their birthday!)
  • Extra day of leave for volunteering
  • Company events, including regular paid-for company and team socials
  • Company pension scheme
  • Hybrid and flexible working as standard
  • Recently refurbished office in Leeds, specifically designed for hybrid working
  • Market-leading maternity and paternity benefits for an agency of our size
    Regular training – both internal and with external trainers
  • Long service rewards at 5, 10 and 15 years
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Quarterly innovation prizes