About the role

  • Lead the development of research proposals from scoping through to delivery, defining clear methodologies, deliverables, and timelines across qualitative and quantitative studies
  • Own all BAU insights research to support internal teams, new business opportunities, and ongoing client servicing, ensuring consistency, quality, and efficiency across recurring workstreams
  • Own client relationships for insights projects, ensuring outputs meet business objectives and communicate a strong point of view
  • Design and manage bespoke studies across audience, category, cultural, and creative intelligence, using mixed methods such as social/search listening, surveys, panels, and desk research
  • Deliver paid research studies, including audience research, market research, and relevant industry products and insights
  • Collaborate with Account Directors on theatre productions and venue campaigns, providing data-driven insights and strategic recommendations to enhance sales and ticketing performance for our clients, helping build our credibility in the space
  • Ensure internal teams are regularly updated with industry insights, staying informed on trends and best practices to strengthen campaign strategies and client partnerships
  • Build tools to empower teams to leverage insights for ongoing client servicing, ensuring insights are accessible, actionable, and embedded in daily decision-making
  • Lead data partnership relationships (e.g., GWI, Pulsar, YouGov, Brandwatch), ensuring we maximise their value, integrate effectively into workflows, and stay ahead of product developments
  • Build frameworks and templates to streamline insights products and services, ensuring high-quality, consistent outputs that drive time efficiencies and repeatable excellence
  • Champion the use of data across the business, educating teams on how to apply insights effectively in campaign planning, creative development, and optimisation
  • Collaborate with Paid Search, Paid Social, and Programmatic teams to connect performance data with audience and behavioural insights, ensuring that marketing decisions are grounded in evidence
  • Use storytelling with data to communicate valuable insights clearly and persuasively within detailed market research reports and client deliverables
  • Translate insights into actionable recommendations that influence strategy, creative messaging, and media investment decisions
  • Develop and evolve dashboards, models, and reusable assets to make insight generation more efficient and repeatable across clients and pitches
  • Mentor junior team members, guiding research design and data storytelling
  • Stay ahead of data, technology, and privacy trends, continuously assessing new tools, techniques, and platforms to enhance analytical capabilities
  • Identify and shape opportunities to turn bespoke research into scalable, fee-earning data products or client solutions.

Requirements

  • 3–5 years’ experience in a research, data, or insights role within an agency, consultancy, or brand-side environment
  • Proven experience in designing, managing, and delivering end-to-end research projects, including scoping, analysis, and client presentation
  • Strong understanding of digital marketing performance data, particularly in Paid Search and Paid Social, and how it can be integrated into audience and market insights
  • Demonstrable expertise in qualitative and quantitative methods: surveys, panels, social/search listening, and consumer trends
  • Experience translating complex data into actionable strategies and creative implications
  • Advanced Excel/Sheets skills (pivots, arrays, regex, data cleaning) and familiarity with SQL or Python for data manipulation
  • Experience with social and search intelligence platforms such as Pulsar, Brandwatch, Glimpse, BuzzSumo, GWI, or YouGov
  • Excellent storytelling and visualisation skills, creating compelling decks and narratives tailored to C-suite and marketing audiences
  • Strong project management and organisational discipline, with the ability to juggle multiple deadlines.

Benefits

  • 25-day holiday allowance excluding Bank Holidays (plus extra time off over Christmas)
  • One extra day’s holiday accrued for each of the first three years of service
  • Competitive salary benchmarked annually
  • Early Friday finish (3pm) - subject to business requirements
  • Enhanced family-friendly and personal leave policies
  • Health cash plan (after 3 months) and employee assistance programme
  • Hybrid working with home equipment allowance
  • Occasional free tickets to live events
  • Structured personal development and training programmes
  • Opportunities to attend industry conferences and shape agency culture

Job title

Data Insights Manager

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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