Research & Insights Executive

The role

We Are looking for a Research & Insights Executive to work as part of an established and dedicated Research & Insights team.

Who We Are

We Are Social is a global socially-led creative agency with unrivalled social media expertise. With 1,300 people in 19 offices spanning four continents, we deliver a global perspective to our clients in a time when social media is shaping culture.

We’re proud to be a multi award-winning agency, with Cannes Lions, One Show, Webby and Shorty Awards, to name but a few. Our most recent work has seen us help Pepsi, Meta and Adidas deliver some of their biggest and most innovative campaigns to date, from breaking into the metaverse to smashing records on TikTok. 

As well as creating for clients, we help educate the wider industry. Our Instagram publication The Feed tracks culture at the speed of social. 6,500 people registered or tuned into our events last year, and our reports garnered more than 20 million views.

The Opportunity 

Want to create award-winning work for some of the most iconic global brands of all time?

Enjoy working with data and insights that support and aid the process of developing ideas worth talking about for a world known global brand?

Do you want to be able to work in collaboration with other departments to truly understand the process for delivering award-winning work?

We Are looking for a Research & Insights Executive to work as part of an established and dedicated Research & Insights team. You will have assisted with the day-to-day delivery of reports through data collection and manipulation supported by a Senior Research & Insight Analyst. You will have previously collected and manipulated large data sets and be comfortable with delivering these with minimal to no errors.

Requirements

What You’ll Have Delivered Elsewhere

• Have successfully been able to pivot social media data and work in a timely manner to prioritise insights and recommendations, delivering results ahead of schedule due to expert technical knowledge.
• Have been able to manage your own time, delivering more than one report concurrently and able to balance the intricacies of both.
• You have successfully been able to explain social media data to multiple audiences. Delivered a presentation of findings to a non-technical audience and received positive feedback from the client on the direct impact of the work.
• You have delivered content or an insight from social media or the industry that has been applied and was pivotal to the success of a brief or campaign.
• Have written succinct reports, understood nuances and then delivered findings and recommendations from data points which spanned different audiences, markets, regions, languages and dialects.

What Else Are We Looking For?

• Always takes full accountability for your results/deliverables
• Being solutions-driven and be confident in vocalising them 
• Experience minimising the need for clients/stakeholders to escalate issues above me or to require unnecessary input from my colleagues
• Contribution of new ideas and points internally which are then taken forward/adopted
• Innate curiosity into why things have happened and answering the ‘so what?’ across your data and your projects

Benefits

Our Culture and the Nice Stuff

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion runs in the water here at We Are Social. We are transparent about the changes that are needed, we are focused on making real strides, both internally and within the industry and we strive to truly be a workplace that represents, supports and advocates for ALL. Our Charter for Change in the UK  can be found here which details our focus areas across People, Work and Culture in 2023.

If you require any support, adjustments or accommodations for any reason whatsoever during the recruitment process, please let us know via [email protected]

So let’s get to the good stuff,  we offer all those things you would naturally expect; 25 days holiday, pension scheme & life assurance. But what we love most is connection, so we have our WAS Passport and Work From Anywhere schemes which allow you to truly connect to colleagues all over the world! 

But what’s life around here really like day-to-day? Well, we ask our people regularly what they think about us/their role and here are some of the most common things they say:

• I value my manager we have a good relationship
• We love to ‘get social’ with the people I work with
• Trusted to get on with the job, without ‘micro-management’!

If this all sounds like the place you have been waiting to find then apply now! What are you waiting for?