Insight Executive

At Smart Energy GB, we aim to engage and communicate with the whole of our diverse nation about the smart meter rollout across England, Scotland, and Wales. We are an independent organisation set up by the government to deliver the national public engagement campaign, raise awareness of smart meters and drive adoption of this technology in everyone's homes. Smart meters are essential building blocks in the creation of a cleaner, greener energy system for the future.

We are looking for a passionate, hardworking Insight Executive, with a genuine passion for working in a creative and busy marketing environment and experience of working in a relevant marketing research or insight role, and with good knowledge and experience of primary research methodologies and project management, to join our team in our London office. Your task will be to help ensure Smart Energy GB’s long-term strategy is planned and grounded in the best possible understanding of our target audiences, consumer behaviour, and cutting-edge marketing science.

Key tasks/responsibilities

• Responsible for day-to-day project management of designated consumer research workstreams and provide support to Insight Managers in the areas of research design, analysis and stakeholder management
• Manage the delivery of internally-produced research projects, including questionnaire design, fieldwork management, data structuring, and report writing
• Conduct day-to-day liaison with research agencies across our wider research programme
• Work with the rest of the Insight & Analytics team to ensure that all research, insight, and data findings are communicated in a clear, concise, and articulate way
• Work with Insight Managers to help our internal teams utilise research findings to shape their own actions in an effective and efficient manner
• Work with the communications team to support the publishing of research findings to media, and external stakeholder audiences where appropriate
• Involvement in analysis projects utilising the full range of our commissioned research and third party generated insight to provide strategic insight
• Oversee reviews of the third party generated insight and ensure that relevant findings are incorporated as appropriate
• Liaise with internal teams to ensure that Insight & Analytics team research plans are set up appropriately and reflect broader organisational objectives

Skills, experience, and competencies

• A genuine passion for working in a creative and busy marketing environment with experience of working in a relevant marketing research or insight role. Preferably with some research agency experience
• Solid experience and knowledge of a range of primary research methodologies (quantitative or qualitative)
• Experience in project managing a complex and diverse programme of primary research, covering multiple activities and incorporating multiple datastreams
• Skilled in distilling and interpreting research findings from multiple sources into clear and actionable stories for internal teams
• Strong organisation skills and the ability to manage projects in order to meet internal timelines
• Strong IT skills, including the creation and management of spreadsheets and PowerPoints
• Excellent communication skills (verbal/writing)
• Understanding and experience of using crosstabulation and other data analysis software
• Experience in advertising research is preferable
• Appreciation of the objectives and activities of Smart Energy GB
• Appreciate the diversity of the people and communities of Great Britain and embrace this diversity in your approach to work

Diversity:

Smart Energy GB is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We use data to measure the effectiveness of our attraction and selection methods to ensure that they are fair and equitable and that opportunities at Smart Energy GB are accessible to people from all backgrounds.

We actively encourage applications from currently under-represented groups. We have identified ethnic minority, lower socio-economic background, disability and gender as the key areas we would like to focus our recruitment efforts in.

What do we do to promote diversity and inclusion at Smart Energy GB?

Every person who applies for a role at Smart Energy GB is asked to complete a diversity questionnaire and they are asked whether or not they consent to their diversity data being taken into consideration at the shortlisting stage. Please could you complete our short form alongside your application - https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/SEGBRecruitmentEDMonitoringForm2022

1. Rooney Rule

We are building a team that is able to understand the needs of and effectively communicate with the whole of our diverse nation. We want our team to reflect the diversity of the wider population, in terms of the representation of people from ethnic minority and lower socioeconomic backgrounds.

If consent is given, of the candidates who meet the essential selection criteria for the role and who are from ethnic minority or lower socio-economic backgrounds, at least one will be shortlisted for the next stage in the recruitment process, which is usually an interview.

2. Disability

All disabled applicants who meet the minimum requirements of the job as set out in the job description will be guaranteed an interview, if consent is given for this data to be taken into consideration at the shortlisting stage.

If there’s anything we can do to make our interview process or working environment more inclusive and to meet your particular needs please let us know. Our offices have full wheelchair access.

To apply for the role:

To view the full job description and more about Smart Energy GB, please visit our careers page - https://www.smartenergygb.org/about-us/careers

Please send your CV and cover letter to: iwanttojoin@smartenergyGB.org.

Smart Energy GB is an equal opportunity employer and we track equal opportunity data to make our recruitment and selection practices as inclusive as possible. Please could you complete our short form alongside your application - https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/SEGBRecruitmentEDMonitoringForm2022

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