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Graduate Research Executive - Customer Experience
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Graduate Research Executive - Customer Experience
Application Deadline: 19 August 2026
Department: Graduate
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: London
Compensation: £28,000 / year
Description
Are you driven by data and passionate about insights? We are a leading global market research company, enabling organisations to make smarter, bolder, and faster decisions.
The CX Service Line has an enviable client list, award-winning programmes, and, as industry-recognised leaders, drives change both in Ipsos and the wider CX world. The Client Service team holds the overall relationships with clients across our accounts and includes a combination of Insights, Client Success, and CXPS specialists.
- Insights: Not just about designing the right surveys but delivering best-in-class insight and storytelling across both platform and non-platform programmes.
- Professional Services (CXPS): About the added value advisory services we can offer clients to truly drive change, both around existing projects and as standalone pieces of work.
- Client Success: At Ipsos CX is all about getting the best out of the CX technology platforms for our client programmes.
From day one, you’ll work on live client projects across a variety of industry sectors, including Telco, Retail & Fashion, Hotels & Hospitality, Auto, Financial Services.
The Role
You will gain exposure and experience in platform-based CX programmes. Working alongside CX experts, you will build the skills, knowledge, and confidence to support the team in best practice delivery across the end-to-end project cycle.
These are the types of things you can expect to be doing during your day to day:
- Gain experience and knowledge of core CX tools and techniques such as survey design, fieldwork and sampling management, quality control, dashboard design, data analysis, platform features and functionality (note there is a platform services team who build platform elements).
- Contribute to and check relevant project materials e.g. questionnaires, sampling plans, dashboard specifications, closed loop design.
- Take responsibility for some smaller aspects of projects, seeking out opportunities to support the team across workstreams.
- Start to communicate directly with clients e.g. drafting updates or develop presentation delivery skills.
- Contribute to overall account success by taking part in quarterly reviews, understanding how projects work financially and shadowing others responding to requests.
- Connect client needs to products and services within CX and the latest in industry and internal CX thinking.
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About You
We encourage diversity of thought, so we look for candidates who are as diverse as the societies, markets, and people we work with. Therefore, we are looking for:
- A passion for understanding customer behaviour and a natural curiosity and intrigue for human behaviour.
- An analytical and problem-solving mindset, numeracy, and attention to detail, with a commitment to accuracy and integrity in every task.
- Effective communication and storytelling skills, the ability to derive actionable insights from data and present them in a clear and engaging way for diverse audiences.
- Commercial awareness and client-focused mindset, with a genuine passion for understanding client needs and delivering impactful, value-driven solutions.
- Proactive, you put yourself forward, embracing collaboration and teamwork, working effectively with others, and valuing diverse perspectives to build on colleagues' strengths.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to juggle across multiple projects and client needs, making the right calls on prioritisation.
- A focus on self-awareness and a growth mindset. A curiosity and learning agility that fosters exploration of new ideas and openness to understanding changing trends.
- Driven to succeed and make a real impact, with a willingness to reflect, learn, and grow.
- An aptitude for leveraging AI tools and techniques to enhance research and insights, in line with Ipsos' standards and policies.
Desirables:
- Any past experience working with research data, platforms, or approaches is useful but not essential.
Along with…
- The unrestricted right to work in the UK.
Why Ipsos
Launch your career with our 12-month global Generation Ipsos Graduate Programme. You will gain the essential skills, values, and in-depth knowledge to excel as a top researcher. Benefitting from extensive, best-in-class training covering technical, research, personal, and client-focused skills. Being part of a cohort, you will collaborate with fellow graduates across the business, building your network and driving innovation.
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After completing the programme, you will be eligible for promotion to further your career at Ipsos. You will also have the chance to work towards the MRS Advanced Certificate, a recognised research qualification.
Benefits
- 25 days’ holiday that increases to 30 days over time, plus an extra day off for your birthday.
- Industry-leading Graduate Programme to kickstart your career with top training and development opportunities.
- Flexible working and inclusive bank holiday options, recognising the diversity of our workforce and that people may celebrate different events.
- Interest-free Future Talent Loan of up to £1,000, providing optional support for unexpected costs so you can focus on starting your career.
- Work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks each calendar year (subject to relevant Right to Work requirements).
- Bupa Well+ Health and Wellbeing Services for ongoing health and wellness support.
- Comprehensive benefits including pension contributions, income protection, winter flu jabs, eye care vouchers, and many others.
- Company-paid Curiosity & ESG Days.
- Diversity and Inclusion Belong Networks, bringing together people with shared identities and interests to foster a welcoming and supportive workplace.
Application Process
Successful applicants will move on to a cognitive and personality assessment, followed by a virtual interview with one of our talent partners. The final stage will be an in-person assessment centre at our London office on the 3rd September, and we are looking for candidates to start on 2nd November.
We are committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment, and ensuring we have diversity of people and views. We recognise that this is important for our business success - a more diverse workforce will enable us to better reflect and understand the world we research and ultimately deliver better research and insight to our clients. We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident scheme, certified as a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. We provide an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
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