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Job Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an established project manager to join our fast growing and award-winning agency. Here, you will drive and develop projects and accounts and be fundamental to the business and its continued successes.
About Opinium:
MRS 2021 and 2024 Agency of the Year. Winner of the MRS best place to work award three times, the Drum Best Place to Work 2018 & 2019, and the 2019 Women in Research Best Agency to Work Globally. Opinium is a strategic insight agency, that truly puts its people at the centre of everything they do.
Across our four offices in London, New York, Amsterdam and Cape Town, we help our clients harness the power of insight on a global scale to build, grow, promote and make strategic business decisions. We also use Opinium for good, working with multiple charities and volunteering.
Our culture:
We really believe we have a unique culture which provides a stimulating, challenging and rewarding workplace whilst providing a supportive environment and focus on the wellbeing of our people.
“When measuring success, revenue growth and employee wellbeing should go hand-in-hand. It’s the only way to build an insight agency that clients want to work with. We’ve placed our people where they rightfully belong: at the heart of our business.”
Opinium CEO, Chair Market Research Society (MRS)
Your opportunity:
To support our ambitious growth plans, we are seeking to expand Opinium’s Project Management Team. This is an extremely exciting and important move for Opinium, as the project management function acts as a catalyst for the wider research and operations teams.
While Opinium has research team’s based in London, Amsterdam and New York, the project management team only sits within London. This role would be to work as part of Opinium’s Project Management team, working on projects directly supporting our US office, based in NYC.
The team in NYC has seen tremendous recent growth and is in need of an expert project manager to help establish and drive efficient project management operations. You will be the first project manager directly supporting the US team, and would thus have a lead role in driving major team-wide AND company-wide initiatives that drive growth and success.
As part of a very close-knit team, your role will involve working directly with our US office, working closely with their clients and internal teams on multiple projects in parallel. You will oversee the delivery from inception through to final deliverables, ensuring that projects run efficiently, to specification and to budget.
This role would require non-standard UK hours, and would typically be 10:00 AM – 6:30 PM or 10:30 AM to 7:00 PM to support US project work and time zones. These times may be flexible earlier or later based upon daily project needs and agreement with your team or manager as needed. Our goal is to ensure you are part of the London culture, while still supporting the team in the US.
We are looking for people who are passionate, resilient, creative, and authentic. You would value working for a business whilst working on projects for the greater good and building relationships with colleagues and teams.
Role & responsibilities:
Your role is vital to the smooth running of our processes and projects. Here, you will be required to undertake the following core functions:
Join key account teams to take responsibility for the end-to-end management of and international projects, from developing the proposal through to project closure
Assess project feasibility, provide costs, and create project plans/timelines for new business proposals and live projects
Identify opportunities during the project lifecycle for efficiencies and improvements – both procedural and financial
Responsible for maximising financial performance across projects, ensuring costs are minimised where possible
Conduct project reviews, assessing the learning and identifying future improvements that could be applied to future projects
Act as a point of contact for clients, providing regular updates on project status
Grow and manage relationships across Opinium’s partner network
Work on wider Operational and Project Management initiatives
Skills and qualities:
Must have skills
We are looking for project managers with around four to five years’ experience within a market research environment. Experience managing qualitative and quantitative projects is essential.
We’re all about passion at Opinium, so successful applicants will show a desire to give it their all, as well as:
A proven track record of managing market research projects, both quantitative and qualitative
Experience working with international internal teams would be a bonus
Experience career/line managing junior colleagues would be a bonus
Strong organisational skills, with the ability to expertly manage multiple priorities and projects at once
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Proactive attitude is essential as we are looking for self-starters
Outstanding attention to detail
Confidence in managing budgets
People management and the ability to effectively delegate upwards & downwards
Experience in client management
Analytical and strong IT skills expected (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) as well as the ability to quickly get to grips with market research software
Other skills and requirements
Fluent spoken & written business English
Strong team player
Understand the importance of meeting deadlines
A desire to expand one’s own knowledge
Education & experience:
A good academic record
4-5 years of project management experience at a market research agency
What we offer you:
We have a wide range of wellbeing tools and initiatives so that you can be your best inside and outside work.
A job that can grow as quickly as you can – our headcount has more than doubled in the last two years and this is only the start
The tools, resources and support you need to succeed and grow
A career manager (that invests and looks after your career)
A collaborative and supportive team
A truly flexible work environment, hybrid working with a focus on prioritising work-life balance
A fun, inclusive and thoughtful company culture
Competitive salary, annual leave, and an excellent pension scheme
Benefits including life insurance, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, Bike to Work scheme, Season Ticket Loan, savings plans and a monthly wellbeing allowance (£60 per month e.g. gym, sports club, learn new ) volunteering days, pre-paid vouchers for annual flu jab/eye test, annual health assessments, flexi start/leave, birthday come-in-lates or leave-earlies, WFH equipment allowance.
Equal opportunity employer:
Opinium is committed to a work environment that is inclusive to all and free of discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer without regard to , , religion, sex, , origin, disability, , or expression and genetic predisposition.
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